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Arnoux Mouafo Nop & 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

  • 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.

Vacancies

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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January 20, 2021 from 2pm to 4pm
How can the design, the implementation and the monitoring processes of projects using a combination of modalities maximize gender outcomes?A recent study and validation webinars based on “Better Gender Outcomes in Food Assistance through Complementary and Multi-Modal programming” explored this issue.Practitioners from around the world, across different disciplines shaped the learning, which will soon be available in tip sheets (with English, Arabic, Spanish and French versions), and the full…See More
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Feminist Evaluation with Donna Podems at Online - link to be provided after registration

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Feminist evaluation, like other evaluation approaches, is concerned with evaluating the effectiveness of programs, interventions, policies, and innovations to judge their merit and worth. In this 3-hour session, Donna Podems describes what Feminist Evaluation is and how it differs from mainstream approaches, including gender-responsive approaches; provides practical guidance on when and how Feminist Evaluation can be integrated in an evaluation process or used on its own (and when it shouldn’t…See More
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Engaging Men and Boys to Prevent & Respond to GBV: Practical Lessons During Pandemics at Online " May 28, 2020 10:00 AM EDT"

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All around the world, measures to control the COVID-19 pandemic are linked to a global surge in gender-based violence (GBV) against women and girls, perpetrated by men and boys. This webinar, hosted by the Prevention+ Programme will: - Highlight the efforts from 4 countries working to engage men and boys to end GBV - Discuss how they prioritize the necessary work with survivors of violence - Promote a conversation on the importance of safeguarding well-being and care amongst activists and…See More
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Webinar- Leading in the post-Covid world: Thoughts on emergent leadership' at Online "April 28, 2020-  7:00 PM - 8:00 PM IST"

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