The Challenge and Potential of Being Women Evaluator, Asia Context

[Umi Hanik]

The Challenge and Potential of Being Women Evaluator, Asia Context

 

*English*

 

Dear all,

In 2009 Indonesian Development Evaluation Community (InDEC) was formed.

 

After five years getting the national and international recognition through series of M&E activities. Ten InDEC women members are now taking the initiative to take a closer look at the outreach and advocacy role of women evaluators in Asia, or who have a closeness with the evaluation context of Asia.

 

As a first step in developing an outreach and advocacy strategy for female evaluators, we want to hear and learn from female evaluators -- and male evaluators --  in Indonesia and in the Asia region about the challenges and potential of being female evaluators face in their work environments.

 

If you are male evaluator, we wish to hear your observation, stories, or experience of having women evaluator in your working environment, to have them as a team member, to work for or with them, or anything you think we need to know!

 

Therefore, if you have some time, you are invited to fill out the online mapping sheet at the following linkhttp://bit.ly/MappingTool.

The online survey is in English.

 

On behalf of InDEC, thank you in advance for your participation!

 

Departmenf of Networking and Advocacy InDEC

 

Damairia Pakpahan (Circle)

Umi Hanik (PRSF)

Ratnayu Sitaresmi (Independent evaluator)

Eri Hariono aka Lestariyanti (Chemonics)

Astri Indirawati (JICA)

Juairia Sidabutar aka Ajoe (UNWFP)

Sri Hidayati aka Nehik (ACCESS)

Siti Ruhanawati (Mercy Corps)

Siti Ismah Afwan (Kemitraan)

Agnes Gurning (ILO)

 

Credit: 

Eri Hariono (Chemonics) for the online tool version!

Luc Spyckerelle (Seed for Life, Timor Leste) for the English version!

 

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*Bahasa Indonesia*

 

Tantangan dan Potensi Menjadi Evaluator Perempuan, Konteks Asia

 

Rekan2 semuanya,

 

Pendirian Indonesian Development Evaluation Community (InDEC) telah dideklarasikan sejak 2009 lalu. 

 

Selama lima tahun InDEC telah berusaha mendapatkan perhatian dari monever nasional maupun internasional melalui berbagai kegiatan monev. Beberapa bulan terakhir, sepuluh* anggota InDEC perempuan tengah menjajagi peran outreach dan advokasi untuk para evaluator perempuan di kawasan Asia atau yang punya kedekatan dengan konteks evaluasi Asia.

 

Sebagai tahap awal dan masukan untuk penyusunan strategi outreach dan advokasi untuk para evaluator perempuan tersebut, kami perlu mendengar suara para evaluator di Indonesia dan kawasan Asia tentang bagaimana tantangan dan potensi para evaluator perempuan dalam menjalankan peran evaluasi di lingkungan kerjanya.

 

Kami juga ingin mendengar suara para evaluator lelaki yang punya concern sama dengan tujuan kami di atas. Juga cerita tentang bagaimana bekerja bersama evaluator perempuan, sebagai tim, sebagai bawahan, atau rekan kerja dalam pekerjaan monev. Atau cerita terkait apapun yang ingin anda bagi!

 

Untuk itu, kami mengajak rekan2 yang bekerja di bidang monev untuk dapat berpartisipasi mengisi lembar pemetaan online kami di link berikuthttp://bit.ly/MappingTool (dalam bahasa Inggris)

 

Informasi yang rekan2 tulis dalam lembar pemetaan tersebut akan menjadi bahan belajar kami untuk secara bertahap mewujudkan rencana outreach dan advokasi terhadap para evaluator di kawasan Asia atau konteks evaluasi Asia.

 

Atas nama InDEC, kami mengucapkan terima kasih untuk partisipasinya.

 

Salam MONEV dan salam solidaritas!

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Web: http://indec.or.id

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[Rituu B Nanda]

Responses from American Evaluation Association linkedin group 

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  Rakesh

  Rakesh Mohan

  Director at Office of Performance Evaluations

  Top Contributor

  Namaste! In some work environments, a few men in positions of power may not take women evaluators as seriously as men evaluators. This phenomenon may not be limited to Asia only; I have seen it in the United States as well, though rarely. For example, if a team of two evaluators (one man and one woman) are presenting the results of their evaluation at a meeting, some audience members may only pose their questions to the male evaluator. The good news is that these type of men are on the path of rapid extinction.

• Umi Hanik

  Monitoring & Evaluation Professional, Founding Members of Indonesian Development Evaluation Community (InDEC)

  Hi Rakesh! interesting! is it at the same years of working experience or mostly happened to young female evaluators? 
  
  do you have assumption on the rational or possible cause why they treat female evaluators that way? is it because they don't want to give us hard questions? they just being nice? or anything else?
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  Rakesh

  Rakesh Mohan

  Director at Office of Performance Evaluations

  Top Contributor

  Hi Umi, 
  
  First, thanks for connecting with me on LinkedIn. 
  
  You are asking excellent questions. With respect to the age difference, the women evaluators were much younger than the male evaluators. 
  
  I really do not have any good assumptions or a possible explanation regarding the rationale for such treatment. 
  
  All the best.

[Rita Mwase]

We are working on evaluation capacity development in Uganda and we have noted that female evaluators are very few. We have therefore organized a special training and reflection on the same subject area as above.

Our suspicion that we are yet to confirm is the fear for the rigour required in evaluation.

This training also aims to introduce the female evaluators to a network of evaluators with whom they can team-up with given their areas of specialization.