Veranstaltungsprogramm

Training Goals: Participants gain foundational knowledge on human rights- and gender-based evaluation, adopt a human rights perspective, and learn to understand and use relevant terminology and frameworks. They also develop the ability to identify, elaborate, and practically apply specific human rights-based aspects throughout the evaluation process, supporting them in critically reflecting on their projects using the framework.

Target Group: Evaluators and evaluation managers of all levels of experience who wish to familiarise themselves with human rights-based evaluation and the integration of human rights in evaluations. The workshop offers a practice-oriented introduction to human rights-based evaluation, from planning to dissemination.

Methodology: In the workshop, participants will be introduced to specific challenges and concepts of human rights-based evaluation and will have the opportunity to practise them using a case study.

The workshop begins with a brief introduction to the topic and an open collection of the participants' prior experience and expectations of the workshop that they already have. Participants are encouraged to adopt a shift of perspective in the further course of the workshop, which is a key element for understanding and implementing human rights-based evaluation.

The centrepiece of the workshop – the Evaluation Lab – is divided into the three evaluation phases: planning, implementation, and dissemination. For each phase, participants are introduced to fundamental concepts of human rights-based and gender-oriented evaluation. Special emphasis is placed on understanding the relevance and significance of the approaches and applying them in practice.

Through group work on case studies, participants carry out the first steps of a human rights-based and gender-oriented evaluation. They identify human rights references in their evaluation object, develop human rights- and gender-based evaluation questions for their case, and design procedures to ensure that all relevant perspectives are considered in the implementation of their evaluation case. The aim is to deepen participants’ understanding of human rights principles and the central elements of the approach, and to gain a detailed view of the specific steps within the broader context of a human rights-based evaluation.

The Evaluation Lab is accompanied by input presentations on the different evaluation phases and open discussions in plenary. The results of the group works will be presented to the whole group to foster peer learning.

The workshop concludes with a summary of key insights and provides space for joint reflection on the opportunities and challenges of the approach in general and in relation to participants’ own evaluation practice.