: : AGDEN - Africa Gender and Development Evaluators Network : :

The African Gender and Development Evaluators’ Network (AGDEN) was established in 2002 by the African Evaluators Association (AfrEA) and UNIFEM. The idea came after the realization of the need to strengthen the effectiveness and gender responsiveness of development programmes and projects to human rights and results-oriented participatory approaches in monitoring and evaluation. The network is aimed at developing a critical mass of development practitioners and decision makers who can view issues from a gender perspective.

AGDEN Ford Foundation Workshop Held in Nairobi
A ‘joint’ workshop was held in Nairobi by the AGDEN Ford Foundation Rights in M&E project from Monday 14th until Wednesday 16th of June at the beautifully green Fairview Hotel in Nairobi. This workshop represents the final one in the Ford Foundation funded project intended to bring together human rights, women’s rights and M&E. It was ‘joint’ because two previously planned workshops for Lagos and Cairo were put together and offered as one. The first in the series of workshops was held in Johannesburg in August 2009. One major difference between this workshop and the Johannesburg one was the length; instead of five days, the Nairobi workshop was given for three days as requested by the Ford Foundation Programme Officers at a crucial meeting in April. Most participants felt three days were inadequate to cover the workshop content.