A tool for strengthening gender-sensitive national HIV and Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) monitoring and evaluation systems

This document is a tool to assist countries in strengthening systems for national monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of HIV and sexual and reproductive health with the aim of:

• improving evidence on how gender inequality affects HIV and SRH outcomes and programmatic

responses

• measuring and monitoring gender-based inequities in HIV and SRH outcomes.

A number of guidance documents, resources and tools support the integration of gender equality into SRH and HIV programs, plans and donor proposals. These include tools such as gender assessment of national HIV responses (UNAIDS, 2014b); integrating gender into the new funding model of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria (UNDP, 2014); and a roadmap for mainstreaming gender into national HIV strategies and plans (UNDP, 2012). However, to the best of our knowledge, there exists no other tool that provides a framework and concrete steps for building attention to gender inequality into the monitoring and evaluation of sexual and reproductive health and HIV responses, into the information systems that generate evidence, and into data analysis. This tool, therefore, enables the generation of strategic information (that is, data and evidence for decision-making) that supports mainstreaming gender in national plans and programs. It is complementary to the tools mentioned above, which focus on analysis of national policy responses.