Hi everyone, 
We've now published the tool in French and Portuguese, please do feel free to share these links with French and Portuguese speaking colleagues.

French:  Outil d’autoévaluation de l’égalité des genres et l’inclusion sociale

Portuguese:  Ferramenta de auto-avaliação de Igualdade de Género e Inclusão Social

Your feedback and comments are very welcome!
Thanks, 
Alice

Hi everyone, 

We have recently published a blog reflecting on our experience with the GESI audit. You can read it here:  Assessing our own gender equality and social inclusion credentials

Please do let us know if you have any comments and reflections, we'd love to hear them. 

Thanks and best wishes,

Alice

Dear friends and colleagues,

We feel very lucky to have collaborated with Water for Women (WFW) on the production on the great new Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Self-Assessment Tool . 

An intentional focus on gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) is key to sustainable and effective WASH projects. This guidance is for staff of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) implementation and research projects and organisations, who are committed to improving the practice of GESI in their projects and organisations.

The Sanitation Learning Hub (SLH) team know first hand how good this tool is as WFW used it with us through a facilitated process to assess our programme. (We are in the process of writing a blog about our experience which I will share soon.) WFW produced and refined this tool over the past few years through a process of implementation, reflection, learning and adaption. The current version of the tool was finalised with extensive SLH inputs in June 2021.  

What is this tool for? To support individual and collective reflective practice among staff on the extent  and quality of gender equality and social inclusion work in their WASH projects and organisation.

Who should use this tool? Anyone working on WASH implementation or research projects that wants to improve (GESI) practice.

Who needs to be involved in the process?

• A Contact Point within your project/organisation/team to guide the process internally
• Staff and managers from across your organisation/team/project (maximum 20 people)
• A facilitator, ideally someone external

How long does the process take?

• For implementing WASH agencies, four x 2 hour workshops, plus 2 hours individual preparation and 2 hours preparation in pairs
• For research and learning WASH organisations, three x 2 hour workshops, plus 2 hours individual preparation and 2 hours preparation in pairs

If you decide to try it out we would love to hear about your experience of using it.

Best wishes
Elaine