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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.
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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
Looking for Consultants - short assignment for UNESCAP on egov and gender
Dear friends
I write this to check if you can help us with identifying country consultants in Kazakhstan, South Korea, Philippines, and the Pacific islands, for a short term research assignment. IT for Change is working with the United Nationals Regional body - The UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia Pacific (UN ESCAP) - to undertake a rapid research, based on case studies, to influence the Beijing plus 20 inter-governmental process (focussing on women's rights articulated in the Beijing Platform for Action (1995) document).
ESCAP, in partnership with United Nations Project Office on Governance (UNPOG), wants to undertake this study on “e-Government for women’s empowerment” to enhance the capacity of governments to use e-Government as a tool to innovate for women’s empowerment by increasing knowledge and awareness of good practices in this area.
The project is looking for researchers who will work with IT for Change and undertake a quick study (based on desk research and field visits) to build a gender-based understanding about egovernment practices in Kazakhstan, South Korea, Philippines, and a Pacific country. The rationale is build a body of work on how innovations in e-Government can contribute to realising gender equality and to policies required to strengthen the contribution of ICT and e-Government to women’s empowerment. Particular focus will be on the delivery of e-Government services to advance the political, social and economic autonomy of women through the improved communication and access to information, facilities, educational, business and other resources, and networks.
The key challenge is to be able to identify up and running initiatives in the domain of e-government that have a clear focus on women's empowerment. There are not too many initiatives that incorporate a gendered analysis of the situation on the ground. However, practices that have attempted to bring in an inclusionary perspective, and have, as a result of the architecture and implementation design, impacted women favourably, will be a good starting point for this exploratory research.
The Beijing document, in 1995, little expected that the world will be a new place because of ICTs... But the 'plus 20 review' process requires a solid grounding in contemporary issues. IT for Change is currently developing the framework for the country studies.
1. We would be grateful for leads on country consultants who can document case studies (based on desk research and field visits) about gender sensitive egovernment initiatives in their countries (urban or rural, covering public information delivery or services),
2. We also welcome information on ICT initiatives of governments that were designed for women or had a positive impact on women's rights, in Kazakhstan, South Korea, Philippines, and the Pacific islands
3. We would also like to be pointed to other countries in the Asia Pacific, where case studies on e-government for women's empowerment may be feasible
Request you to please reply to anita@itforchange.net, cc itfc@itforchange.net
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