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About the Course
Development organizations increasingly need to demonstrate not only that gender equality is mentioned in programme documents, but that it is a meaningful objective supported by analysis, results, financing and monitoring. Weak classification or unsupported marker scores can undermine portfolio reporting, donor confidence and the credibility of gender-equality commitments. The OECD DAC Gender Equality Policy Marker provides a widely used framework for identifying whether gender equality is a principal objective, a significant objective or not targeted in development activities.
This specialist course develops practical capability to apply the OECD DAC Gender Equality Policy Marker and connect marker decisions to results-based programme management. It covers gender analysis as evidence for scoring, minimum criteria, principal versus significant objectives, programme logic, gender-responsive indicators, results frameworks, budgeting and financing links, documentation, quality assurance and portfolio-level reporting. Participants also examine common scoring errors and how marker use interacts with organizational gender policies and donor reporting systems.
Participants work through realistic project cases and produce a marker assessment, scoring justification, gender-results chain, indicator set, quality-assurance checklist and portfolio reporting template. The course is designed to help development agencies, governments, NGOs and donor-funded programmes strengthen consistency between programme design, gender objectives, financing classifications and reported results.
Target Participants
Gender advisers and focal points; programme and project managers; monitoring, evaluation and learning professionals; donor-funded project staff; development-finance and portfolio officers; government planning officials; proposal and programme-quality staff; consultants; and professionals responsible for gender-marker scoring or gender-results reporting.
Course Duration
- Classroom – 5 Days
- Online – 7 Days
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Apply the OECD DAC Gender Equality Policy Marker classification logic to development activities.
- Assess whether programme design and evidence support principal or significant gender-equality objectives.
- Develop defensible marker-scoring justifications linked to programme analysis and results.
- Design gender-responsive results chains, indicators and targets that support marker credibility.
- Review budgets and financing information for consistency with stated gender objectives.
- Identify common marker-scoring errors and quality-assurance risks.
- Prepare portfolio-level gender-marker reporting and management information.
- Develop an institutional process for marker review, approval and results follow-up.
Course Content
OECD DAC Gender Equality Policy Marker Framework
- Purpose and evolution of the OECD DAC Gender Equality Policy Marker
- Principal, significant and not-targeted classifications
- Relationship to development-finance reporting
- Marker use across projects, programmes and portfolios
- Case diagnostic: classify sample development activities
Gender Analysis for Policy Marker Classification
- Problem analysis and gender inequalities
- Evidence required to justify gender objectives
- Stakeholder and power considerations
- Intersectionality and target-group implications
- Exercise: assess the adequacy of gender analysis in a project document
Applying OECD DAC Gender Marker Scoring Criteria
- Minimum criteria for meaningful gender-equality objectives
- Distinguishing principal from significant objectives
- Avoiding intent-only or activity-only scoring
- Treatment of mixed and cross-sector programmes
- Scoring simulation using competing project cases
Gender-Responsive Results Chains
- Gender-responsive problem statements
- Outcome and output formulation
- Causal pathways and assumptions
- Alignment between analysis and results
- Workshop: build a marker-consistent gender results chain
Gender Equality Indicator Design
- Gender-responsive indicator principles
- Sex and intersectional disaggregation
- Outcome versus activity indicators
- Targets, baselines and data sources
- Develop an indicator reference sheet for a marked programme
Aligning Budgets with Gender Equality Objectives
- Linking gender objectives to financed activities
- Budget traceability and resource sufficiency
- Gender-responsive budgeting interfaces
- Identifying unfunded gender commitments
- Exercise: test budget consistency with marker score
Evidence Requirements for Gender Marker Scoring
- Programme documents and supporting evidence
- Documenting scoring rationale
- Data and baseline requirements
- Audit trail and version control
- Prepare a marker evidence file and scoring justification
Quality Assurance of Gender Marker Applications
- Review roles and segregation of duties
- Common scoring errors and over-marking risks
- Peer review and moderation approaches
- Consistency checks across portfolios
- Build a marker quality-assurance checklist
Gender Equality Portfolio Reporting
- Aggregating marker information
- Interpreting financing volumes and trends
- Portfolio dashboards and management reporting
- Connecting marker data to gender results
- Develop a portfolio reporting template
Institutionalizing Gender Marker and Results Management Processes
- Marker governance and accountability
- Integration into programme approval workflows
- Capacity-building and focal-point roles
- Periodic review and results follow-up
- Develop an institutional marker implementation process
Practical Outputs
- Gender-marker scoring worksheet
- Scoring justification note
- Marker-consistent gender results chain
- Gender indicator reference sheet
- Budget-alignment review
- Marker evidence checklist
- Portfolio reporting template
- Institutional marker QA process
Training Approach
The course uses short technical inputs, guided review of project documents, marker-scoring simulations, results-chain workshops, budget-alignment exercises and peer moderation. Participants compare borderline cases and defend scoring decisions against the OECD DAC criteria, strengthening both technical judgement and consistency.
Institutional application is emphasized throughout. Participants progressively assemble a marker evidence file and design a practical internal review process linking programme approval, gender analysis, results frameworks, financing information and portfolio reporting.
Organizational Benefits
- Improves consistency and defensibility of gender-marker scoring.
- Strengthens alignment between gender analysis, programme objectives and reported results.
- Reduces over-marking and documentation weaknesses in development-finance reporting.
- Improves quality of gender indicators and results frameworks.
- Strengthens linkage between gender commitments and financed activities.
- Provides management with clearer portfolio-level gender information.
- Establishes a repeatable internal quality-assurance process for marker decisions.
Certification
Participants who successfully complete this course will receive a Certificate of Course Completion from Devimpact Institute, recognizing the knowledge, practical skills and competencies developed through the programme.
Customization Options
This course can be customized and delivered as an in-house programme to address the specific policies, systems, sector context and capacity-development priorities of an organization. The course duration, modules, case studies and practical exercises may be adjusted following a training needs assessment.
