Gender Responsive Evaluations Guideline

The South African government has prioritised gender equality, women’s empowerment and human rights as cross-cutting issues in national, provincial, sectoral and local policy and planning instruments as well as programming interventions. While the world has achieved progress towards gender equality and women’s empowerment under the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and since 2015 the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) women and girls continue to suffer marginalisation, discrimination and violence in every part of the world. As a society, South Africa has achieved considerable progress in many aspects of women’s social and economic empowerment but many challenges and obstacles remain to their full participation.