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Gender-responsive Evaluation for an Environmental and Sustainable Future for All (GREENA)

The project aimed to advance the use of gender-responsive evaluation in the EU as a tool to enhance accountability to gender equality and gender mainstreaming commitments and effective policy, programme and project design in the context of the EU recovery and green transition. To achieve this objective, the study team initially conducted desk research and gender analysis on the following:

  • Gender equality and intersectionality in strategic foresight in the context of impact assessment and evaluation in the EU;
  • Gender mainstreaming in the EU evaluation framework; and
  • Gender-responsive evaluation in selected European Green Deal policy areas (Transport, Energy, Agriculture and Circular economy).

This research informed the preparation of the ‘GREENA step-by-step toolkit on gender-responsive evaluation for a sustainable future for all’. The GREENA toolkit provides practical know-how to implement evaluations with a gender perspective in the EU, particularly in the context of the European Green Deal. It features examples from the selected European Green Deal policy areas. It features examples from the selected European Green Deal policy areas and comprises 11 individual tools organised to provide support at all stages of the evaluation process for policy officers and monitoring and evaluation officers in the EU. For instance, the toolkit includes unique tools to help users identify and assess gender impacts, recognise the gender dimension of environmental impacts and conduct gender-responsive strategic foresight.

The project also involved the development of four knowledge-based communication products to raise awareness and know-how among stakeholders:

  • A web version of the GREENA step-by-step toolkit for EIGE’s gender mainstreaming platform. The toolkit was adapted following the principles of web-friendliness (e.g. simplification of technical descriptions, use of short sentences, visuals, pictures, icons and interactive elements).
  • A policy brief on gender-responsive strategic foresight in EU impact assessments and evaluations.
  • A factsheet focusing on the assessment of gender impacts on four critical areas of the EU green transition (Transport, Energy, Agriculture and Circular economy).
  • A PowerPoint presentation to disseminate the results of the study.

PPMI also co-organized an in-person experts’ meeting (participatory workshop) with EIGE. The meeting aimed to raise awareness, build the capacity of participants to conduct gender-responsive evaluations and gather feedback from the toolkit’s intended users and EIGE’s stakeholders. EIGE plans to publish the GREENA toolkit and communication products in the first quarter of 2024.