Breaking through: engendering monitoring and evaluation in adult education

In 1999, the UNESCO Institute for Education (UIE) organised a seminar, 'Monitoring and evaluation of adult education from a gender perspective', in an attempt to bring together the elements of adult education, gender, and monitoring and evaluation which have all undergone change in their concepts and definitions in the last 10 years. This book presents the discussion of these inter-relationships which took place during the seminar. The first paper presents a conceptual framework for the monitoring and evaluation of women's adult education programs. The rest of the papers are organised into three sections: (1) Practices in monitoring and evaluating literacy; (2) Going beyond quantitative measures; (3) Monitoring international commitments. The first section looks at the range of monitoring and evaluation practices in literacy; the second section provides examples of practices beyond literacy and discusses various qualitative measures; and the final section looks at governments' international commitments and examines the extent to which they are able to fulfil these promises. The papers are: Monitoring and evaluating women's educational programmes: concepts and methodological issues / Sara Hlupekile Longwe; Women's participation in adult education: the IALS [International Adult Literacy Survey] data / Sofia Valdivielso Gomez; Monitoring participation in literacy and continuing education: the Dhaka Ahsania Mission experience / Ehsanur Rahman; The Rene Moawad Foundation experience in Lebanon / Fady Yarak; The Women in Enterprise Development (WED) project: monitoring and evaluation practices / Myrna Lim; An evaluation of the Victoria Mixenge Housing Development Association from a gender perspective / Salma Ismail; The Mahila Samakhya experience / Lakshmi Krishnamurty; Evaluation in feminist projects / Beata Fiszer; Evaluating NGO work in education for all from a gender perspective / Berewa Jommo; Women participation: bridging the gap / Celita Eccher; Monitoring education programmes in Pacific Island countries / Margaret Chung; The DAWN [Development Alternatives with Women for the New Era] review of the ICPD [International Conference on Population and Development] implementation in the South: substantive and methodological aspects of monitoring / Josefa Francisco. Also included is an appendix summarising the indicators of empowerment developed by CENZONTLE (Centro para la Participacion Democratica y el Desarrollo) and the output of the group work of the participants during the seminar.

In 1999, the UNESCO Institute for Education (UIE) organised a seminar, 'Monitoring and evaluation of adult education from a gender perspective', in an attempt to bring together the elements of adult education, gender, and monitoring and evaluation which have all undergone change in their concepts and definitions in the last 10 years. This book presents the discussion of these inter-relationships which took place during the seminar. The first paper presents a conceptual framework for the monitoring and evaluation of women's adult education programs. The rest of the papers ...  [+] Show more