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The How, What and When of Project Monitoring

Facilitating Successful Implementation of Gender Equality Plans in European Research Institutions

Jennifer Dahmen-Adkins    RWTH Aachen University, Institute for Sociology, Aachen, Deutschland    

Helen Peterson    University of Gothenburg, Department of Sociology and Work Science, Gothenburg, Sweden    

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abstract

This paper focuses on monitoring as a key component of successful structural change projects. Project monitoring is usually defined as an on-going collection of project data in order to assess whether a project is going in the right direction and follows the pace and stages set beforehand. This paper elaborates on the how, what and when of successful project monitoring and describes the strategies and approaches to monitoring that was used in the international, collaborative project GenderTime. In this project seven different tailor-made gender equality plans (GEPs) were implemented in seven research institutions in seven European countries. The seven GEPs contained a very diverse set of over 100 actions to improve gender equality and strengthen the position of women researchers in these institutions. GEPs are inherently complex, constructed to solve complicated, multi-dimensional and contextually dependent problems concerning gender inequality. The project data in GenderTime, that needed to be monitored, was thus characterized by being qualitative diverse and quantitatively extensive. This paper describes the monitoring strategy that was developed to fit this context and the monitoring tools that were designed and implemented. The overall aim of the paper is to share and disseminate the knowledge gained regarding monitoring during the four years of the project.

Published
Dec. 17, 2019
Language
EN
ISBN (PRINT)
978-88-6969-335-9
ISBN (EBOOK)
978-88-6969-334-2

Keywords: Gender Equality PlansToolsContext sensitive monitoring

Copyright: © 2019 Jennifer Dahmen-Adkins, Helen Peterson. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.