Session Title: Bridging the evidence-to-action gap: Global and country perspectives in gender programming

Moderator: Dr Lauren Rumble, Principal Advisor for Gender Equality, UNICEF

Panelist:
1. Sam Bickel, Regional Advisor Evaluation, UNICEF South Asia
2. Emma Samman, Research Associate, Oxford Development Institute
3. Dr Chandre Gould, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Security Studies [ISS], South Africa
4. Matodzi Amisi, Evaluation and Research Consultant, ISS
5. Diketso Mufamadi, Research Consultant
6. Rituu Nanda, moderator, Gender & Evaluation online community, Institute of Social Studies Trust

Description:
Evidence is important for gender transformative programming when it is used and has an effect. Bridging the gap between it’s production and achieving influence in the user community is very hard to manage. This session will explore how this can be done. Two especially hard results to influence will be examined. The first is changing restrictive gender norms, based on UNICEF experience. This second is influencing national policy on violence against women and children in South Africa, based on a multi-strategy approach that included evaluation. We will also benefit from a sense of the broader use goals and bridging challenges based on the flow of research and evaluations that are announced through the Gender and Evaluation Community of Practice.

Through presentation and discussion, we hope the participants will:
1. Understand the role effective dissemination of evidence an play in gender transformative programming
2. Be able to identify the evidence to action gap in their own setting
3. Start exploring how gender equality can be incorporated in their evidence function in a more systematic way, especially in addressing restrictive gender norms

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