Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning
Tony’s Open Chain has developed a set of Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) principles for its programme work, and one of the principles included is equity. Through this principle, we commit to considering power dynamics, partnerships, resource distribution, roles and responsibilities with an equity lens across our MEL work . As part of this commitment to embedding equity in our MEL approach, gender is an essential consideration. We are committed to considering gender and applying a gender lens throughout our MEL work, tailored to align with different approaches, methodologies and research questions. Examples of this include: 1. Ensuring our sample size of men and women for large -scale quantitative surveys (such as the farmer survey carried out in 2025), is representative of our supply chain demographics and is sufficient to identify and explore any gendered differences in our sur vey results. 2. Following up quantitative surveys with qualitative women -only focus groups to ensure we effectively capture the perspective of women farmers (this is planned as a follow -up to the above -mentioned farmer survey, with a focus on getting women -farmer insights on hired labour choices). 3. Digging deeper than simply identifying whether participants are male or female and instead exploring household dynamics to better understand the difference between male and female -headed households (such as was done through the MPI survey between 2019 - 2023 23 ). 4. Disaggregating data and insights by gender as well as other farmer characteristics in our analyses (e.g. CLMRS, farmer survey, MPI survey, living income analysis). o Child labour : We collect gender - disaggregated data through our CLMRS system, allowing us not only to identify the number of girls and boys in child labour, but also gather information on the hazardous tasks they may carry out, their education status and other wellbeing questions. Collecting gender -disaggregated data can enable us to tailor the remediation actions for girls and boys to ensure these are appropriate and effective. Gender -disaggregated data is published in our annual impact report.
o Living income: In 2025 we expanded our living income analysis to include all members of a partner cooperative, rather than a sample,
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