This guidance note provides practical step-by-step guidance on how to achieve a gender-smart Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance (CDRFI) programme through effective planning for monitoring and evaluation (M&E) throughout each stage of the programme cycle. This includes at the design, implementation, and impact stages of such a programme. Additionally, it also provides advice on the collection and use of sex-disaggregated data and features case study examples for best practices from within and beyond the InsuResilience Global Partnership. The target audience for this guidance note is practitioners involved in the design and/or implementation of any stage of the programme cycle of a CDRFI project.