Gender-sensitive Parliaments

The high-level working group or committee (overseeing the plan) will select the person or group that will carry out the evaluation. You may choose to work with an external expert with experience in gender-responsive evaluations for this task (whose work would be scrutinised by the high-level working group or committee). Alternatively, you may assign this task to internal experts (for example, that work in the gender equality office of the parliamentary administration, who are more familiar with the institutional context and might require less time and financial resources to complete the evaluation).

Adequate human and resources will improve your access to data and informants throughout the evaluation process. This in turn will strengthen the findings of the evaluation and will improve its overall credibility.

Reflect on whether additional human resources will be needed to:

• identify and compile the documents that will be analysed by the evaluator(s);
• contact participants for interviews, workshops, and surveys;
• provide technical support to organise in-person or online meetings to discuss the findings of the evaluation.

As part of Step 3, you reviewed and updated the remaining budget that could be used to evaluate the gender equality action plan. At this stage, review the budget again to assess whether any additional financial resources are needed to conduct a thorough evaluation.