A practical monitoring and evaluation tool at the subregional and regional level Monitoring and evaluation programme of the African Plan of Action to accelerate the implementation of the Dakar and Beijing Platforms for Action 2000-2004 : Monitoring and evaluation programme of the African Plan of Action to accelerate the implementation of the Dakar and Beijing Platforms for Action 2000-2004

Abstract

This Chapter Introduces the Guide, explaining its role as a support to the Monitoring and Evaluation programme of the Implementation of the African Plan of Action, and provides an overview of Its contents the chapter also explain what gender mainstreaming is. The 6th African Regional Conference on women was held in November 1999 at the UNECA In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The primary objective of this Conference was to undertake a mid-decade review and assessment of the level of implementation of the Regional and Global Platforms for Action. The review was conducted in the form of national progress reports prepared by forty-eight member states together with evaluation reports from the regional organizations (OAU. ECA and ADB), and most United Nations agencies. The major outcome of the exercise was the identifications of the problems encountered by member States in the implementation of the Platforms for Action (PFA), and proposals on the way forward for the subsequent five years. This outcome constitutes the content of the African Plan of Action. The African Plan of Action (APA) is therefore a synthesis of strategies and mechanisms aimed at addressing and resolving Issues Identified as posing serious constraints to the implementation of the Dakar and Beijing PFA.