Gender Transformative Evaluation In Context - Gender and Evaluation2024-03-29T07:31:34Zhttps://gendereval.ning.com/forum/topics/gender-transformative-evaluation-in-context?commentId=6606644%3AComment%3A76844&feed=yes&xn_auth=noGreat example, thank you! I a…tag:gendereval.ning.com,2018-07-17:6606644:Comment:768592018-07-17T08:50:19.817ZKeri Culverhttps://gendereval.ning.com/profile/KeriCulver
<p>Great example, thank you! I am part of a training team with a dozen evaluation professionals and we used your example today in our course! Maybe Gender and Evaluation will see some more sign-ups tomorrow as a result... :></p>
<p>All the best,</p>
<p>Keri</p>
<p>Great example, thank you! I am part of a training team with a dozen evaluation professionals and we used your example today in our course! Maybe Gender and Evaluation will see some more sign-ups tomorrow as a result... :></p>
<p>All the best,</p>
<p>Keri</p> That was so helpful! Thank yo…tag:gendereval.ning.com,2018-07-17:6606644:Comment:767802018-07-17T01:32:46.532ZMargerit Rogerhttps://gendereval.ning.com/profile/MargeritRoger
<p>That was so helpful! Thank you so much. It never really occurred to me that gender dynamics would influence certain tools or ways of workings greatly. But your example makes perfect sense. I've also interviewed husband and wife teams (because the wife wouldn't come alone) and never thought to impose that type of lens on the data. I assumed Was hearing less from the wide but never thought I might be hearing something different from the husband. Thanks for taking the time to explain that.…</p>
<p>That was so helpful! Thank you so much. It never really occurred to me that gender dynamics would influence certain tools or ways of workings greatly. But your example makes perfect sense. I've also interviewed husband and wife teams (because the wife wouldn't come alone) and never thought to impose that type of lens on the data. I assumed Was hearing less from the wide but never thought I might be hearing something different from the husband. Thanks for taking the time to explain that. Great food for thought. </p> Thanks for such a good write…tag:gendereval.ning.com,2018-07-16:6606644:Comment:769662018-07-16T17:50:55.612Zdeepali bhattacharyahttps://gendereval.ning.com/profile/deepalibhattacharya
Thanks for such a good write up. I would like to bring focus to women's experiences. The evaluations must focus on transactional aspects in gender relationships both within primary stakeholders..ie community dynamics and women as right holders and state as primary duty bearers. It is also very important to take note of what has changed for individual women.
Thanks for such a good write up. I would like to bring focus to women's experiences. The evaluations must focus on transactional aspects in gender relationships both within primary stakeholders..ie community dynamics and women as right holders and state as primary duty bearers. It is also very important to take note of what has changed for individual women. Thank you for this powerful e…tag:gendereval.ning.com,2018-07-16:6606644:Comment:769642018-07-16T17:21:56.049ZRituu B Nandahttps://gendereval.ning.com/profile/1uniqcg103ltu
<p>Thank you for this powerful example. I have so much to learn from you.</p>
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<p>Thank you for this powerful example. I have so much to learn from you.</p>
<p></p> Dear Rituu,
Thanks for your c…tag:gendereval.ning.com,2018-07-16:6606644:Comment:770502018-07-16T17:00:06.191ZDevyani Srinivasanhttps://gendereval.ning.com/profile/DevyaniSrinivasan
<p>Dear Rituu,</p>
<p>Thanks for your comment, and for kick-starting this discussion!</p>
<p>Unfortunately I don't have a successful example from my own experience of being able to convince a client to take a more gender-transformative approach. That's probably the subject for another discussion on evaluation use! However, in an evaluation that I was involved in for a social enterprise that provides employment services, by dis-aggregating our data we found that female job-seekers were more…</p>
<p>Dear Rituu,</p>
<p>Thanks for your comment, and for kick-starting this discussion!</p>
<p>Unfortunately I don't have a successful example from my own experience of being able to convince a client to take a more gender-transformative approach. That's probably the subject for another discussion on evaluation use! However, in an evaluation that I was involved in for a social enterprise that provides employment services, by dis-aggregating our data we found that female job-seekers were more educated than their male counterparts but had lower salary expectations. Data such as this could POTENTIALLY convince the social enterprise to increase the awareness, confidence and negotiation skills of female job-seekers so that they start to ask for (and get) higher salaries.</p>
<p>Regards,<br/> Devyani</p> Dear Margerit and Keri,
Thank…tag:gendereval.ning.com,2018-07-16:6606644:Comment:769602018-07-16T16:30:54.043ZDevyani Srinivasanhttps://gendereval.ning.com/profile/DevyaniSrinivasan
<p>Dear Margerit and Keri,</p>
<p>Thanks very much for your comments, and for pushing me to think more about what I meant by moving "up the ladder". Let me try to illustrate with an example.</p>
<p>In two evaluations that I conducted recently, I ended up holding both single-sex and mixed focus groups (for varied reasons). What I found the most interesting was how the responses of <em>men </em>to questions about joint decision-making varied in single-sex and mixed focus groups. While in the…</p>
<p>Dear Margerit and Keri,</p>
<p>Thanks very much for your comments, and for pushing me to think more about what I meant by moving "up the ladder". Let me try to illustrate with an example.</p>
<p>In two evaluations that I conducted recently, I ended up holding both single-sex and mixed focus groups (for varied reasons). What I found the most interesting was how the responses of <em>men </em>to questions about joint decision-making varied in single-sex and mixed focus groups. While in the mixed focus groups men were likely to describe more equal gender relations (whether in terms of decision-making or the division of labor), in the single-sex focus groups they were much more likely to describe themselves as being more dominant.</p>
<p>While mixed focus groups might therefore be a good tool to understand the extent to which there has been a transformation in relationships and power dynamics among men and women (and as important, the extent to which this is publicly acknowledged), in a conservative community a mixed focus group may only be an effective tool to use in an evaluation if the program that is being evaluated has already created an environment in which men and women feel comfortable speaking in mixed focus groups. This relates to the second part of Margarit's question about a better match between programs and evaluation tools. While a feminist evaluator might be keen to facilitate a conversation about gender relations and power dynamics in a mixed focus group, if the program has not created an enabling environment for these discussions to take place the experience is likely to be uncomfortable and potentially harmful for participants rather than illuminating or empowering.</p>
<p>At the "bottom" of the ladder the variations in approaches/tools I was referring to were largely related to making incremental changes such as the one I've described above. At the "top" of the ladder, I believe there are many more approaches and tools that have been developed which are outside my area of expertise. Jyotsna mentioned gender audits, and I'm sure there are other members of this community who would know of many others.</p>
<p>I hope this helps!</p>
<p>Regards,</p>
<p>Devyani </p> Dear Devyani,
Thank you for s…tag:gendereval.ning.com,2018-07-16:6606644:Comment:768542018-07-16T05:49:50.374ZKeri Culverhttps://gendereval.ning.com/profile/KeriCulver
<p>Dear Devyani,</p>
<p>Thank you for such a well-written piece to get us discussing this issue. It is so uncommon that even in nonprofit realms we go much beyond sex disaggregation to really thinking about how gender influences service uptake. We are not necessarily better at this, in my opinion, when the project is focused on gender, or on interventions with a strong gender component like caregiving or food security - we take it for granted that, since women are target "beneficiaries" then…</p>
<p>Dear Devyani,</p>
<p>Thank you for such a well-written piece to get us discussing this issue. It is so uncommon that even in nonprofit realms we go much beyond sex disaggregation to really thinking about how gender influences service uptake. We are not necessarily better at this, in my opinion, when the project is focused on gender, or on interventions with a strong gender component like caregiving or food security - we take it for granted that, since women are target "beneficiaries" then gender is already well attended-to. </p>
<p>I share Margerit's question about moving up the ladder - how would you see the tools changing? </p>
<p>Thanks,</p>
<p>Keri</p> Response on email
Dear Rituu,…tag:gendereval.ning.com,2018-07-14:6606644:Comment:770442018-07-14T18:07:16.981ZRituu B Nandahttps://gendereval.ning.com/profile/1uniqcg103ltu
<p>Response on email</p>
<p>Dear Rituu,</p>
<p>This is very good to hear we have an evaluation example for-Profit which is having a gender angle.....</p>
<p>i cant wait to read more..... i can's agree more when she says. Most of the objectives look at dual objectives of providing access to goods and services and financial sustainabiliy of the enterprise......</p>
<p>I am also benefiting too</p>
<p>Regards,<br/>Mary Nderitu<br/>M&E Specialist<br/>Kenya</p>
<p>Response on email</p>
<p>Dear Rituu,</p>
<p>This is very good to hear we have an evaluation example for-Profit which is having a gender angle.....</p>
<p>i cant wait to read more..... i can's agree more when she says. Most of the objectives look at dual objectives of providing access to goods and services and financial sustainabiliy of the enterprise......</p>
<p>I am also benefiting too</p>
<p>Regards,<br/>Mary Nderitu<br/>M&E Specialist<br/>Kenya</p> Hello,
This sounds very inte…tag:gendereval.ning.com,2018-07-13:6606644:Comment:767562018-07-13T12:45:44.157ZMargerit Rogerhttps://gendereval.ning.com/profile/MargeritRoger
<p>Hello, </p>
<p>This sounds very interesting but, not having been to the conference, I want to clarify something. You say that you see a need to "<span>think of varied sets of approaches and tools that can be used for programs that are designed to be gender-blind, gender-instrumental, gender-specific and gender-transformative, with the objective of enabling clients to move “up the ladder” to program designs (and evaluations) that are gender-transformative." Do you think that approaches and…</span></p>
<p>Hello, </p>
<p>This sounds very interesting but, not having been to the conference, I want to clarify something. You say that you see a need to "<span>think of varied sets of approaches and tools that can be used for programs that are designed to be gender-blind, gender-instrumental, gender-specific and gender-transformative, with the objective of enabling clients to move “up the ladder” to program designs (and evaluations) that are gender-transformative." Do you think that approaches and tools would vary significantly between gender-blind, gender-instrumental, gender-specific and gender-transformative programming AND do you think that having a better match between evaluation approaches/tools and programs would lead to more gender-transformative programming? Thanks for explaining!</span></p> Here is a detailed response f…tag:gendereval.ning.com,2018-07-13:6606644:Comment:768442018-07-13T09:08:18.718ZRituu B Nandahttps://gendereval.ning.com/profile/1uniqcg103ltu
<p><strong>Here is a detailed response from Jyotsna Roy</strong><br></br> <a href="http://gendereval.ning.com/profile/JyotsnaRoy" target="_blank">http://gendereval.ning.com/profile/JyotsnaRoy</a></p>
<p class="_message">Hi Ritu! Long time..but still going strong...I cannot send the reply to Devayani...So pasting it for you to share...</p>
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<li class="message brief"><p class="_message">Thank you Devayani, for sharing your thoughts based on your experience as an Evaluator…</p>
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<p><strong>Here is a detailed response from Jyotsna Roy</strong><br/> <a href="http://gendereval.ning.com/profile/JyotsnaRoy" target="_blank">http://gendereval.ning.com/profile/JyotsnaRoy</a></p>
<p class="_message">Hi Ritu! Long time..but still going strong...I cannot send the reply to Devayani...So pasting it for you to share...</p>
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<li class="message brief"><p class="_message">Thank you Devayani, for sharing your thoughts based on your experience as an Evaluator in a real situation. I have recognize your dilemma / question. I have faced situations in which a gender assessment is asked for a programme / project/ scheme did not have it in the plan. Those days were early days. But now the use of Gender sensitive lenses must be promoted and encouraged in the for profit sector to make their strategies more fine tuned to address the Gendered Differences in the demand of their products. I agree and quote you to use " evaluation as a tool that can be used to draw my clients’ attention to issues such as the differences between men and women in their access to their products and services, how they use them, and how they benefit (or don’t). I believe that there is an opportunity here to advocate for changes that can improve women’s access to, use of, and the benefits derived from, these products and services within the constraints that for-profit social enterprise</p>
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<li class="message"><img width="32" height="32" class="_avatar" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2177296199?profile=RESIZE_180x180"/><span class="_sender">Jyotsna Roy</span><p class="_message">Only yesterday I was working on an elective module to introduce Gender Audits for Organizational (corporate and private sector) Effectiveness</p>
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