Monthly Corner
Laura Hughston - Blog
Arnoux Mouafo Nopi & Dimitri Tsona Zapzi - Article
Prof. Wangari Mwai and Prof. Catherine Ndungo - BOOK
- Understanding Gender and Identity Through The Gender Dictionary
Publisher: Bleeding Ink Scribes
RAI SENGUPTA - gender-transformative evaluation tools
This synthesis draws on evidence from 17 humanitarian evaluations across diverse crisis settings. It identifies key feminist evaluation innovations across four domains - design, methods, analysis, and ethics - illustrating how feminist principles can be embedded throughout the evaluation process. It also surfaces broader shifts required at policy, institutional, and practice levels to realise the transformative potential of feminist approaches in humanitarian contexts.
The toolkit translates these insights into applied guidance for evaluators and organisations. It provides step-by-step support across the full evaluation cycle, including planning, design, methods, analysis, ethics, and dissemination. Drawing on global feminist evaluation practice, humanitarian guidance, and gender evaluation standards, it includes adaptable tools, participatory and arts-based methods, guiding questions, and templates for field application.
Ritu Dewan & Swat Raju - Article
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In Promises & Reality 2026 Citizen’s Review of Year 2 of the NDA-III Government. Coordinated by Wada Na Todo Abhiyan, June 20, 2026. pp 94-100.
UTTHAN - Research Report
Traversing the path with women farmers in their fields and in our reflections/writings, a stark observation was the sheer lack of localized and regional vocabulary and terminology to adequately capture and communicate the understanding of climate change and mitigation strategies, informed by the unique experiences and needs of small and marginal women farmers. This is what propelled our research - to examine how women farmers perceive, express, experience, and respond to climate variability across
Our Research Report centres the lived experiences, generational knowledge, and resilience strategies of small and marginal women farmers from the coastal (Bhavnagar) and hilly (Dahod & Panchmahal) regions i.e two contrasting agro-climatic zones of Gujarat. Through their voices, the study reveals exactly how climate change intersects with gender, land rights, labour burdens, and food security.
Events
Vacancies
About the job
At Includovate, we are expanding our Pacific Research & Evaluation Talent Pool and inviting researchers, evaluators, consultants, and development practitioners to join a growing network of professionals committed to creating meaningful social impact.
As a feminist research incubator and certified social enterprise, Includovate works with partners including UNICEF, UNFPA, the ILO, governments, and development organisations across 23+ countries. Our work spans gender equality, social inclusion, health, disability, youth, climate, WASH, market systems, and other development priorities.
We are particularly keen to connect with experts from:
📍 Papua New Guinea
📍 Solomon Islands
📍 Vanuatu
📍 Timor-Leste
📍 Fiji
📍 Samoa
📍 Tonga
📍 Indonesia
📍 Australia
and across the wider Pacific region.
We welcome expertise in:
✓ Research, Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning
✓ Gender Equality & Social Inclusion
✓ Health & SRHR
✓ Disability Inclusion
✓ Youth Development
✓ Climate & Environment
✓ WASH
✓ Market Systems Development
✓ Governance & Community Development
Whether your expertise lies in data collection, research, evaluation, technical advisory, facilitation, or team leadership, we would love to hear from you.
By joining our Talent Pool, you become part of a trusted network of professionals who may be considered for future research, evaluation, advisory, and consulting opportunities across the Pacific region and beyond.
🔗 Register here: https://lnkd.in/eyF66S7H
Join us: Community of Practice for community-led approaches to MEAL
Join us for the launch of a Community of Practice (CoP) for Community-Led approaches to Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL)
Community-led principles often overlap with feminist principles and have similar opportunities and challenges when it comes to applying them to MEL. Community-led MEL has been proven to create gender transformative change in communities.
Are you working toward applying community-led or similar principles, such as inclusion and balancing power dynamics, to monitoring, evaluation, and learning in the international development and aid space — but often feel like you’re doing it alone? Are you experimenting, questioning, adapting, and learning alongside communities, without many spaces to connect honestly with others doing similar work?
We’re excited to invite you to join this Community of Practice for applying principles of Community Leadership in Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning.
📅Date: Wednesday, 4 March 2026
🕓Time: 8am EST, 4pm EAT, 8pm ICT
Register 👉 here.
Many of us are working toward community-led MEL—often doing this work in isolation. We have not yet found a shared space to learn in real time from each other and dialogue honestly about what it takes to put this into practice. This Community of Practice (CoP) is meant to be that space.
This CoP is graciously hosted by the Movement for Community-Led Development (MCLD) and led by a dedicated anchor group. We want to recognize complimentary efforts happening globally, including the APEA CommunityOwnsMERL group.
What this CoP is about
Together, we want to:
- Learn with and from each other about how community-led MEL (or whatever terminology you use) looks in practice in the international development and aid sector
- Share questions, experiences, and resources—and reduce silos across the sector
- Document and lift up approaches that support communities to own monitoring, evaluation, and learning around change in their lives
Who this CoP is for
Centering community voices and lived experience is core to this space. This CoP is for anyone working on and exploring applying community-led principles to MEL in the international development and aid sector. That includes community-based and grassroots organizations, MEL practitioners, community-led development or community-led response practitioners, advocates, and allies across development and humanitarian contexts.
You don’t need to be an expert and you may not even use this terminology. This is a space for people who want to learn together, share power, and center community knowledge and lived experience.
What to expect at the first meeting
This will be a participatory, co-creative session focused on connecting and shaping a collective learning agenda and framework. The first hour will be focused on collectively shaping the expectations of the CoP. We will host an additional half hour for people to connect to each other.
If you’re working on, curious about, or committed to community-led approaches to MEL, we’d love to have you join and help shape this space together.
Warmly on behalf of the CoP for applying community-led approaches to MEL Anchor Group
Hosted by the Movement for Community-Led Development (MCLD)
If any questions, you may direct them to:
Elaine Stavnitzky (she/her)
Community-owned, feminist-MEAL coach
Elevating Voices for Change, Chief Navigator & Founder
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