Monitoring and evaluation – attitudes, knowledge and citizen score cards during 16 Days

The Southern Africa Gender Protocol Alliance working with local councils will be administering attitudes, knowledge and citizen score cards during the 16 Days campaign as part of monitoring citizen engagement with the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development as well as progress towards shifting gender attitudes.

A major outcome will be to get baseline data in at least over 150 councils on the gender attitudes of women and men to see whether they are progressive or non-progressive. The exercise will also be able to measure whether citizens have knowledge of the SADC Gender Protocol as a tool to claim their rights, a tool that has been in use since 2010 with the results appearing in the Barometer.

The Citizen Score Card seeks to measure the perceptions of women and men of their respective countries’ progress towards meeting the 28 targets of the SADC Gender Protocol. Country scores will be collated to obtain an overall regional score for men and women’s perceptions and the scores used for the 2013 Barometer.