Gender Transformative MEAL

CARE is continually building evidence of what works to address the root causes of inequality. But we don’t want to just talk about the needs of women, girls, and their communities — we want to work with them at every step of the way.

Our approach to this – what we term Gender Transformative MEAL – is about shifting power to communities and participants so they determine what change, progress, and impact mean to them. This centers the voices of those we work with in all their diversity to help ensure our programming responds to their needs and perspectives.

Key resources

Gender Transformative MEAL Overview

This two-page overview outlines CARE’s approach to centering the voices and choices of participants in our monitoring, evaluating, accountability, and learning.

Tipping Point MEL Methods Brief: Photovoice

CARE’s Tipping Point initiative evaluation drew upon multiple methods for assessing the project’s contributions to changes at community and individual levels. This brief outlines Tipping Point’s experience with Photovoice, Photovoice, a highly participatory method of evaluation that simultaneously builds skills and amplifies the participant’s own voice. Available in English, French, and Spanish.

Tipping Point MEL Methods Brief: Outcome Mapping

CARE’s Tipping Point initiative drew upon multiple methods for assessing the project’s contributions to drive programmatic learning. This brief outlines Tipping Point’s experience with Outcome Mapping.

GRAD Learning Brief: Outcome Mapping

CARE’s GRAD program conducted a Gender Outcome Mapping, with the aim of deepening understanding of the nature and scope of changes in social norms and gender relations so as to better shape programming and identify more sensitive indicators of change. This brief outlines their findings.

Tipping Point MEL Methods Brief: Sensemaker

CARE’s Tipping Point initiative drew upon multiple methods for assessing the project’s contributions to changes at community and individual levels. This brief outlines Tipping Point’s experience with SenseMaker®, a narrative-based approach that involves the collection of short stories from targeted participant groups in response to a common prompt, to measure social norms change. Available in English, French, and Spanish.

Tipping Point MEL Methods Brief: Social Norms Measurement

CARE’s SNAP framework guides social norms diagnosis and evaluation. This brief outlines how the Tipping Point initiative combined analysis of qualitative data from FDGs, Photovoice and Sensemaker within the SNAP framework to measure social norms change. Available in English, French, and Spanish.

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