Gender and Evaluation
Bibliographic References
This group is to facilitate the exchange of bibliographic references in regards to gender and M&E.
This group is to facilitate the exchange of bibliographic references in regards to gender and M&E.
Rituu B Nanda
This comes courtesy Jim Rugh and Oumoul Khayri Ba Tall
Inspired by an excellent review by Bob Williams in the March issue of AJE (the American Journal of Evaluation), I have just ordered a copy of the book Emerging Practices in International Development, edited by Stewart Donaldson, Tarek Azzam and Ross Conner. There is also a review on the Information Age Publishing website. I commend this book to the attention of all of us involved in evaluating international (or, as Bob points out, any) program.
Jim
Feb 18, 2015
Rituu B Nanda
Dear all,
This special issue on "The Politics of Austerity" is available to view. As the editors comment, "Our contributors have addressed the complex problems of austerity in three main ways: first, by challenging the economic and political orthodoxies about the nature of the crisis and the political responses to it for their gendered underpinnings; second, by revealing the gendered, racialised and sexualised exclusions and violence–both material and discursive–that neo-liberal policies of austerity have produced and enabled, and the limits and possibilities of resistance that have resulted; and third, by tracking the gendered impacts of specific austerity policies and the emerging forms of resistance to them."
IS IT REALLY JUST THE CUTS? NEO-LIBERAL TALES FROM THE WOMEN’S VOLUNTARY AND COMMUNITY SECTOR IN LONDON
Elena Vacchelli, Preeti Kathrecha and Natalie Gyte
Fem Rev 109: 180-189; doi:10.1057/fr.2014.38
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Enjoy, and comments welcome (especially anyone else who works with grassroots women’s organisations).
Mar 9, 2015
Rituu B Nanda
ARTICLE ON MERGING DEVELOPMENTAL AND FEMINIST EVALUATION IN APRIL AJE
Programs seeking to challenge and change gender and power relationships require a nimble, evolving monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) system that helps make sense of how nonlinear complex social change happens. This article describes efforts by Oxfam Canada to develop such a system for a women’s rights and gender equality program. The system, which we call a feminist learning system (FLS), is an interconnected, nonlinear system that emerged over the program life cycle and responded to evaluative challenges and information needs we encountered along the way. The learning-oriented focus of the system differentiates it from more standard approaches to monitoring and evaluation. We situate the system within current evaluation thinking and research, arguing that it represents a merging of developmental evaluation and feminist evaluation. The synergistic fit of the two approaches provided an evaluative framework that strengthened Oxfam Canada’s ability to monitor, evaluate, and learn from our highly complex program. It also provided a lens that viewed MEL activities as part of a continuum of social transformation that reinforced programmatic goals related to women’s rights and gender equality.
May 11, 2015