This guide provides a comprehensive framework and a method for monitoring and evaluating the effects of health policies on gender equity. It includes guidelines for the analysis of the social, econonomic, legal, and political context of gender equity. It also has detailed lists of indicators and variables to be used in data-collection tools. It includes guidelines and tables of benchmarks, indicators, and questions for monitoring and analyzing the impact of health policies on gender equity in nine fields of the health system, such as access to care, quality of care, health-system financing, the management of human resoures, and intersectorial action.