Institutionalization of the Use and Generation of Evidence for Improving Ministry of Women and Vulnerable Populations Interventions

The project worked with the Peruvian Ministry of Women and Vulnerable Populations (MIMP) to improve its policies, programs and projects by incorporating and producing rigorous evidence on the impact of its interventions. The project, which was developed in coordination with the National Program against Domestic and Sexual Violence (PNCVFS), the General Office of Monitoring, Policy Evaluation and Decentralized Management (OGMEPGD) and, inside it, the Office of Monitoring and Policy Evaluation (OMEP), sought to institutionalize the use and generation of evidence in the operations of the Ministry. The collaboration included three main components: (i) an evidence repository, which collected evaluation results of interventions that seek to prevent and address violence against women, children and adolescents; (ii) an impact evaluation incubator, aimed to strengthen capabilities on rigorous impact evaluation within the Ministry personnel and to identify innovation and evaluation opportunities; and (iii) an institutionalization proposal to identify concrete steps to durably embed the use and generation of evidence in the Ministry’s operations and ultimately render the policymaking process more effective. To learn more about the partnership with the Ministry of Women and Vulnerable Populations, see this news story from November 2016 and this blog from February 2018.