2B1. Measuring What Matters: How TRISEG’s Gender-transformative Framework Strengthens Inclusive Evaluation in Fragile Economies

The TRISEG (Trade for Resilient, Inclusive and Sustainable Economic Growth) project, implemented by TFO Canada in 16 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America, aims to facilitate SMEs’ access to international markets while promoting gender equality. It supports more than 2,133 SMEs led or owned by women and under-represented groups, strengthening the capacity of institutions to better serve them and support them in exporting. 

TRISEG’s Gender Transformative Framework (GTF) makes an innovative contribution to the field of evaluation by introducing an integrated and contextualised approach to measuring gender-related transformative change in fragile economies. For the first time, it links structural fragility analysis, GESI risk management and transformative impact assessment within a coherent framework.

Designed for fragile and emerging economies, the CTG relies on three complementary tools that link analysis, action and evaluation:

• The Gender Fragility Framework (GFF): analyses how structural fragilities (economic, political, environmental, societal, security and human) interact with gender inequalities to hinder women’s participation in trade.
• Risk Mitigation Coverage Analysis (RMCA): assesses the extent to which project strategies address identified GESI barriers and reduce vulnerabilities.
• The Transformative Change Framework (TCF): measures the project’s impact across five dimensions—relevance, inclusive governance, depth, scale, and sustainability—to determine whether interventions are generating systemic and sustainable change.

The interactive session will include case studies (Ethiopia, Philippines, Peru), mini-application exercises and group discussions on how to adapt these tools to other fragile contexts. Participants will discover practical and accessible tools for designing more inclusive, accountable and transformative evaluations.

Nahomie JB Millien, GESI Programme Manager, TFO Canada
Nahomie Jn Baptiste Millien is an international development consultant with over 15 years of experience in gender equality, women’s leadership and social inclusion. Founder of Centre Kaizen, the first consulting firm dedicated to gender equity and women’s empowerment in Haiti, and NM Conseil, a Canadian firm specialising in social impact strategy, she supports public and private organisations in implementing inclusive practices and transformative evaluations. She has collaborated with institutions such as UN agencies, USAID and Expertise France to evaluate initiatives promoting economic empowerment and institutional strengthening. Currently GESI programme manager at TFO Canada and a doctoral student in Labour and Employment Sciences at Laval University, Nahomie is a member of several professional networks such as BPW Montreal and the Canadian Evaluation Society.