Phase

Indicators

Project design and input indicators

• Infrastructure constraints on men's productive roles and women's economic, domestic and community-management roles addressed

• The economic and cultural issues affecting women's and men's access to transport and services identified and addressed

• Staff on project coordination team identified to facilitate women's participation in the project

• HIV/AIDS indicators related to awareness, access to health services, treatment and counseling

• Overall institutional structure set-up helps to encourage staff to address gender in their projects (this can be through increased gender sensitization of staff; providing appropriate tools to undertake gender- sensitive monitoring; ensuring quarterly progress reports are reporting gender-disaggregated data on project achievements; establishing dialogue amongst staff on constraints and achievements in addressing gender issues in the project, and so forth.)

Project implementation indicators

• Gender responsiveness of institutional arrangements and delivery systems for inputs

• Participatory project planning and implementation with women and men in communities, including procurement activities of the project

• Training, capacity building and methodologies cater to both women and men

• HIV/AIDS awareness campaigns for workers, communities and activities promoting access to health services, treatment and counselling

Project output indicators

• Increase in number of women selected to participate in project activities, such as road or path construction and maintenance

• Increase in ratio of women to men with access to appropriate physical infrastructure

• Increase in ratio of women to men with access to employment and income-generating activities

• Increase in HIV/AIDS awareness, access to health services, treatment and counselling

Project impacts indicators

• Reduced time and costs for women and men taking goods to the market

• Increased income for women and men

• Increased number of women and men entrepreneurs on roadsides

• Reduced traffic-related accidents

• Increase in security for communities in the region

• Increase in enrolment rates in primary and secondary schools

• Improved women's participatory and decision-making skills in community infrastructure-management issues

• Improved maternal and child health;

• Reduced HIV/AIDS prevalence