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  • 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

  • Economy and Inequality

    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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INCLUDOVATE -  Call for Researchers, Pacific Focus

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

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Deborah McSmith, MPH replied to Rituu B Nanda's discussion Query: Creative ways of collaborative qualitative data analysis
"You could invite participants to comb through specific (assigned) evaluation questions to look for themes within the findings related to those specific questions as a way to divide the work."
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Deborah McSmith, MPH replied to Rituu B Nanda's discussion Query: Creative ways of collaborative qualitative data analysis
"Better still if participants arrive at the themes on their own without being prompted.  More realistic."
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Deborah McSmith, MPH replied to Rituu B Nanda's discussion Query: Creative ways of collaborative qualitative data analysis
"You might also provide participants with a summary template so that everyone's work is completed in a similar format and easy to merge or blend if that is a useful step."
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Deborah McSmith, MPH replied to Rituu B Nanda's discussion Query: Creative ways of collaborative qualitative data analysis
"If you are using a common data set and conducting a thematic analysis, you might assign various anticipated themes - based on the evaluation structure, questions and data content - to pairs or trios of participants, ask them to comb through the data…"
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June 17, 2020 from 8am to 9am
During this event, moderated by Dr. Roopa Dhatt, Executive Director of Women in Global Health, panelists from Last Mile Health, Women in Global Health, and World Vision will discuss the importance of integrating gender equity into the community health COVID-19 pandemic response. Panelists will share insights and experiences related to reducing the gender gap through data, CHW programming, policy integration, and broader empowerment efforts. Additionally, the speakers will describe what this…See More
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 Using Evidence in Policy and Practice – Lessons from Africa jointly organized by  UNICEF’s Evaluation Office, EVALSDGs and CLEAR Anglophone Africa (CLEAR–AA).  When: Thursday, 7 May 2020, 9am EDT (New York time).   Click here to join the webinar on 7 May, 9am EDT: >> Join the webinar <<See More
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Join Data for Impact on January 8, 2020 at 9 a.m. EST for a one-hour webinar sharing lessons learned in using most significant change for evaluation.Today, evaluations require methods that are flexible; allow for the complexity of current public health programming in low-resource settings; and address field challenges such as strict budget and time constraints, limited baseline data, and lack of access to…See More
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Webinar: Top 10 Tips for Organizational M&E Capacity Development at Online December 12, 2019 at 10am EDT

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Webinar: Shifting Mental Models To Advance Systems Change at Online

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When it comes to doing the work of systems change, many organizations find that shifting mental models—mindsets and deeply held beliefs that influence how we think, what we do, and how we talk—within their stakeholders is one of the most challenging yet critical components to activate real and lasting change.What does it mean to “shift” mental models? Where would one start, and how does one overcome the many challenges that aim to keep historical mental models in place?Following up on the…See More
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At 20:23 on September 1, 2021, Rituu B Nanda said…

Thanks, Deborah, for responding to Rick's query. Warm greetings!

At 15:17 on January 14, 2020, Rituu B Nanda said…

Hi Deborah, we have members who conduct ex-post evaluation. 

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