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The Gender Assessment Tool (GAT) is comprised of critical questions, as in gender analysis. The GAT helps you determine the gender-responsiveness of a policy or programme.
Important notes on the Gender Assessment Tool (GAT). The GAT can help to rapidly assess the gender-responsiveness (gender-sensitive, -specific or -transformative) of
high-level activities of a given programme. It indicates where gender-responsiveness can be improved.

A collection of methods, instruments and exercises for upholding feminist MEAL approach.

This steering document provides guidance on the implementation of feminist monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning (MEAL). Crucially, this document is not a methodology or a set of instructions, but rather a guide to inform the process of co-creating and implementing feminist MEAL to benefit gender justice and women’s rights.

Discusses conditions for success and guidelines. Include detailed glossary.

This paper offers examples and lessons learned that illustrate how aspects of the Oxfam International Feminist MEAL Principles1 have been used in the design and practice of MEAL systems. It does not offer a template or toolbox for doing feminist MEAL: there is no one kind of feminism and there are many ways to monitor, evaluate and learn about the contributions of a program.

Brief paper describes Oxfam’s Feminist Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) and key foundations

The overview paper documents the practical examples and emergent lessons gathered through the series of discussions. As such, the paper aims to:
 Assist the Equality Fund to identify the starting point when thinking about how to approach feminist-led MEL;
 Suggest potential strategic actions and decisions which the Equality Fund can focus on during its build and design phase to facilitate feminist approaches to MEL;
 Provide practical examples; and,
 Serve as a knowledge base to further engage with key actors as the Equality Fund develops and refines its feminist approach to MEL strategy.

The report provides examples of good practices.

In Teaching to Transgress,bell hooks–writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual–writes about a new kind of education, education as the practice of freedom.  Teaching students to “transgress” against racial, sexual, and class boundaries in order to achieve the gift of freedom is, for hooks, the teacher’s most important goal.

bell hooks speaks to the heart of education today: how can we rethink teaching practices in the age of multiculturalism? What do we do about teachers who do not want to teach, and students who do not want to learn? How should we deal with racism and sexism in the classroom?

Full of passion and politics, Teaching to Transgress combines a practical knowledge of the classroom with a deeply felt connection to the world of emotions and feelings.  This is the rare book about teachers and students that dares to raise questions about eros and rage, grief and reconciliation, and the future of teaching itself.

“To educate is the practice of freedom,” writes bell hooks, “is a way of teaching anyone can learn.” Teaching to Transgress is the record of one gifted teacher’s struggle to make classrooms work.

As feminists, we regularly encounter situations where we would really like to react by affirming our values, especially considering the prevailing reactionary climate. This guide wants to help you with that.

We are, once again, in a period of increased resistance against feminist ideas. If we do not find satisfying solutions to the situations described in this guide, we risk to be silenced. Those situations also affect people who do not (yet) define themselves as feminists, because they hinder the participation of more people in the women’s rights movement.

This guide will not give you ready-for-use answers, like ”if the other person says A, then you say XY.” It is more about sharing certain basic tools to encourage you to find your own answers, according to your taste and preferences. For that, we share our tips & tricks to know when to act, how to keep cool, how to protect yourself, on what basis to take strategic decisions and, above all, what to say once you have made your choice.