GEM is an evaluation methodology that integrates a gender analysis into evaluations of initiatives that use ICTs for social change. It is an evaluation tool for determining whether ICTs are really improving or worsening women’s lives and gender relations, as well as for promoting positive change at the individual, institutional, community
GEM was developed in 2002 from the ground up with women from the South. The methodology was developed based on real-life experiences in the ICT field, from engaging with ICT policies to ICT practices. Feedback from these ICT practitioners and women's rights activists were based on their own realities of how best to assess their work in examining the differential impact of ICT on women and men. These experiences are documented in various reports: Asia, Central East Europe, Latin America and broader social levels.
GEM has been used by hundreds of development initiatives around the world since 2002.
Photo by Fantsuam Foundation, in the implementation of GEM Methodology