Evaluating the Gender & Governance Programme Kenya 2008 Final report (June 2008) By David Everatt Atsango Chesoni Pauline Nyamweya Karuti Kanyinga 1 Table of contents List of acronyms............................................................................................5 Executive summary.......................................................................................6 Key findings and recommendations.............................................................7 Introduction.................................................................................................11 Overview...................................................................................................................................14 The politics of representation........................................................................................................15 Reasons for the evaluation .......................................................................................................17 Scope, focus & key questions..................................................................................................17 Purpose ......................................................................................................................................18 Evaluation design: methodology .............................................................................................18 Feminist methodology ...................................................................................................................20 Data sources ..............................................................................................................................22 The context: gender, the state and politics – and GGP.............................24 Quality and/or quantity? ................................................................................................................24 Governance and gender in Kenya............................................................................................26 The politics of transition in Kenya – 2002 to 2008 .....................................................................27 From constitution to cul-de-sac.....................................................................................................29 GGP and politics of transition.......................................................................................................30 Organisational arrangements & programme management.....................................................31 Analysis and findings ..................................................................................35 Design and strategy: the limits of numbers.............................................................................35 GGP II and the women’s movement .......................................................................................37 How strategic was GGP II? ...........................................................................................................40 How relevant was GGP?................................................................................................................40 Performance ................................................................................................41 Link from programme document to action?.................................................................................41 Progress towards achieving outcomes ..........................................................................................42 What helps and what hinders progress?........................................................................................46 Logframe ........................................................................................................................................50 Analysis ..........................................................................................................................................55 The effects of a weak logframe – lessons from the field .......................................................57 External factors ..............................................................................................................................60 Cross-cutting strategies?................................................................................................................61 Expenditure and outcomes .......................................................................................................62 Financial management................................................................................63 Budget development and reporting...............................................................................................64 Programme costs ............................................................................................................................66 Programme management............................................................................68 UNIFEM’s strategic role..........................................................................................................68 UNIFEM’s strategic position ........................................................................................................69 Strategic co-ordination...................................................................................................................70 Capacity development....................................................................................................................71 Partnership..................................................................................................75 2 Stakeholder involvement ...............................................................................................................76 Dialogue and communication mechanisms ..................................................................................76 Funding modalities.........................................................................................................................78 The programme’s reach .................................................................................................................81 Application of agreed principles..............................................................................................82 Programme management ...............................................................................................................82 Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) ...............................................................................................83 From principle to integrity in programme management and implementation............................84 UNIFEM’s value add ...............................................................................................................85 Sustainability.............................................................................................................................87 Lessons and strategies ..............................................................................................................88 Conclusion ...................................................................................................90 Appendices A: References............................................................................................................................93 B: Instruments...........................................................................................................................96 B1: Donor questionnaire ..........................................................................................................96 B2: Partner survey ....................................................................................................................98 B3: Local-level beneficiaries questionnaire..........................................................................106 B4: Focus group guideline .....................................................................................................108 C: A note on sampling............................................................................................................110 D: List of respondents ............................................................................................................111 E: Terms of Reference............................................................................................................114 F: GGP partners objectives and target groups ......................................................................122 G: Annexure G: Group work (Validation workshop) ..........................................................130 List of tables Table 1: Summary of methodologies utilised........................................................................................23 Table 2: Value add by donors.................................................................................................................32 Table 3: number of candidates in 2002 and 2007 elections by sex......................................................36 Table 4: Trend in number of Women Members of Parliament (1969-2008) ......................................37 Table 5: Summary of findings on progress towards achievement of outcomes..................................46 Table 6: Logframe objectives: comment ...............................................................................................52 Table 7: Logframe outcomes: comment ................................................................................................53 Table 8: Logframe assumptions and comment......................................................................................55