The Feminist Innovation in M&E (FIME) Project

Since its creation in 2019 the Global Evaluation Initiative (GEI) works to support countries as they build and strengthen their monitoring and evaluation eco-systems. The GEI’s overall approach is to play an implementation and support role and ensure that countries lead and own their systems strengthening processes and their outcomes. GEI and partners work in 24 priority countries around the world with an emphasis on Africa South and East Asia and South and Central America. As part of the GEI Global Affairs Canada aims to support a 3-year “Feminist Innovation in monitoring and evaluation” (FIME) Project. The FIME project seeks to capitalize on the GEI’s current strategic alliances its ongoing engagement with various implementing and associate partners and on its experience in addressing gender issues in monitoring and evaluation capacity building programs globally. In particular the following activities are proposed with the intention of optimizing limited resources setting realistic goals and producing concrete results. This aims to ultimately strengthen GEI’s overall products and services. The work is undertaken through 3 main components: - Component 1: Bringing gender-transformative practices to the GEI Network - Component 2: Foster and share innovation in gender-transformative monitoring and evaluation practices - Component 3: Facilitating access to feminist products tools and professionals

The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) produced a synthesis report describing the GEI network's capacities and gaps in implementing feminist and gender-transformative approaches to monitoring and evaluation systems. This document aims to identify key trends and issues that require systemic engagement with partners to improve understanding of feminist approaches; (2) produced a compendium of transformative gender tools methodologies and knowledge products used in the network and integrated into the GEI knowledge platform; (3) organized feminist dissemination workshops; (4) developed action plans to integrate transformative gender practices for at least 4 GEI network members; (5) released a minimum of 6 co-branded knowledge products promoting transformative gender monitoring and evaluation co-produced by GEI partners; (6) made available the resources and support needed to integrate gender-transformative practices into their work to GEI partners; (7) delivered a flagship training course on gender-transformative monitoring and evaluation to a wide audience; (8) produced 3 tools to improve gender-transformative monitoring and evaluation approaches in data collection and analysis; (9) organized 5 events during gLOCAL around the theme of gender-transformative monitoring and evaluation in different regions of the world; (10) stored and made available all materials presented during gLOCAL to a global audience via the GEI knowledge platform. This includes best practices case studies and any methodological work; (11) provided 4 grants per year to support YEE innovation and gender transformation work; (12) supported 1 dedicated event at the end of each grant cycle to capture the innovation generated by YEE and disseminate their results through the network of GEI and GAC partners; (13) supported 40 innovators applying technology to incorporate a gender-transformative perspective in monitoring and evaluation; (14) set up a dedicated knowledge portal integrated wit