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Integrating theory-based evaluation and process tracing in the evaluation of civil society gender budget initiatives

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Over the last two decades, gender-responsive budgeting has gained prominence as an effective
tool for governments to fulfil gender commitments and the realisation of women’s rights. To
date, however, limited empirical evidence exists of the impact and effectiveness of gender
budget initiatives. This article proposes and demonstrates the integration of theory-based
evaluation and process tracing to examine the effects of local-level civil society-led gender-

responsive budgeting on maternal health service delivery in Kabale District, rural Uganda. It
involves four steps: explicating the programme theory linking the gender budget initiative to the intended outcome; theorising the underlying causal mechanism; making case-specific
predictions of observable manifestations of the mechanism; and testing the empirical evidence
using Bayesian logic to make causal inferences about the effects of the civil society gender
budget initiative on maternal health service delivery. This approach strengthens our confidence
in the inferences made about causality and the effects of gender budget initiatives.

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Series Title

Evaluation : The International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice

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Publisher

Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications., 2016

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Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

13563890

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NONE

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Edition

Volume 22, Issue 1, January 2016; pp. 72–90

Subject(s)

Process Tracing
Maternal health
theory-based evaluation
gender-responsive budgeting
local-level

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