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Evaluation Synthesis of Gender Mainstreaming at the African Development Bank
Published by: Independent Development Evaluation, African Development Bank
Over the years, various policy frameworks and institutional mechanisms have guided the African Development Bank Group (AfDB or the Bank)’s efforts to promote gender equality in Africa. As the core approach, mainstreaming gender in its operations has intended to deal with the persistent factors that hinder women’s empowerment and the achievement of gender equality at regional and national levels.
Independent Development Evaluation (IDEV) carried out an Evaluation Synthesis on Gender Mainstreaming at the AfDB since the beginning of the Bank’s Gender Strategy (2014-2018). The purpose was to draw lessons for the AfDB’s new gender strategy under development, and to enrich the knowledge base about gender mainstreaming. The evaluation exercise examined the Bank’s gender mainstreaming approaches, mechanisms and results in light of institutional, regional and global priorities for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in Africa. As part of the evaluation, a synthesis of evaluative evidence from comparator institutions was conducted.
