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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

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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

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Important Call for Collective Action

Started this discussion. Last reply by Srividhya Shanker Aug 27, 2021. 4 Replies

Dear friends and colleagues: I hope you're as well as can be under the circumstances. I'm writing with an important call to action. The field of evaluation has NEVER recognized a woman of color…Continue

M&E Ecosystem

Started this discussion. Last reply by Srividhya Shanker Sep 3, 2020. 4 Replies

Hello friends-- I think this is my first time posting and know it is my first time returning to international work after the birth of my child (I have been working continuously locally, however). So…Continue

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Nov 15, 2022
Srividhya Shanker liked Ranjani K.Murthy's blog post Addressing Intersectionality in Evaluations: From Buzz Word to Institutionalisation
Nov 15, 2022
Srividhya Shanker replied to Gunjan Veda's discussion Let's Decolonize Evaluation together: Make your commitment now!
"From my view, I can see the form hyperlinked. Here is the URL from my view: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdXiRYQyhinbXg-uxj2c5OrbVaQWc5gMrnVbSvUYVIBhf6Xhg/viewform"
May 20, 2022
Srividhya Shanker replied to Srividhya Shanker's discussion Important Call for Collective Action
"Yes--thanks so much! And yet "participation" is also used to reinforce the dominance of those profiting from asymmetrical, oppressive power dynamics (you may know that Uma Kothari has written about this and whiteness in development).…"
Aug 27, 2021
Rituu B Nanda replied to Srividhya Shanker's discussion Important Call for Collective Action
"Hi Vidhya, I signed the form and also shared from my experience:-) This is what I wrote: Who owns the evaluation? Who owns the development? This is the question. It is not enough that we have evaluators of colour or from indigenous community. Are…"
Aug 27, 2021
Srividhya Shanker replied to Srividhya Shanker's discussion Important Call for Collective Action
"Oh, sure--I had tried to embed the link but thanks to you, I see that that doesn't seem to have worked! Here it is: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeNojhYI2RWIlqaKXfGGe97m5mcCwrywXuedcaOJlw4_YNAgg/viewform"
Aug 17, 2021
Rituu B Nanda replied to Srividhya Shanker's discussion Important Call for Collective Action
"Hi Vidhya, please would you share the link to the google form?  Thanks"
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Aug 11, 2021
Srividhya Shanker posted a discussion

Important Call for Collective Action

Dear friends and colleagues: I hope you're as well as can be under the circumstances. I'm writing with an important call to action. The field of evaluation has NEVER recognized a woman of color from the Americas among its theorists/founders, whether through its professional association's theory awards program, flagship journal's oral histories, or sacred Evaluation Theory Tree. It has similarly NEVER formally recognized a person of any gender identity or expression who is indigenous to the…See More
Aug 11, 2021
Srividhya Shanker replied to Srividhya Shanker's discussion M&E Ecosystem
"Hello friends-- Just jumping back on because somehow in copying and pasting and formatting, etc. I inadvertently deleted West/ Central Asia and North Africa. Please forgive me. That is another region that we would love to interview folks from around…"
Sep 3, 2020
Srividhya Shanker replied to Srividhya Shanker's discussion M&E Ecosystem
"Dear friends--Apologies for the delayed reply--I was getting an error message for a while every time I tried to reply from my phone.This time, I'm trying from my computer. What you've shared so far has been very helpful. i'm writing…"
Sep 1, 2020
Rituu B Nanda replied to Srividhya Shanker's discussion M&E Ecosystem
"M&E Ecosystem- adding to what Yatin has shared, I would like to emphasise the importance of Citizens and communities in M&E. Is it not power control which pushes them as recipients of M&E?  Harm- I am a practitioner and would like…"
Aug 13, 2020
Yatin Diwakar replied to Srividhya Shanker's discussion M&E Ecosystem
"Hi Vidya, When i visualise M&E ecosystem, i think of the funding agencies, which demand M&E, the implementing agencies, the external consultants/experts who conduct evaluations, capacity building agencies including academic bodies, VOPEs,…"
Aug 13, 2020
Srividhya Shanker liked Alok Srivastava's blog post Guidelines for Ethical Considerations in Social Research and Evaluation
Aug 7, 2020
Srividhya Shanker posted a discussion

M&E Ecosystem

Hello friends-- I think this is my first time posting and know it is my first time returning to international work after the birth of my child (I have been working continuously locally, however). So I'm a little rusty. 1. To help me design a particular study, I'm wondering if folks can remind me of what could be called "the M&E Ecosystem," e.g., the main elements, species of beings (producers and consumers), and forces of energy that work together to produce what we experience as M&E,…See More
Jul 24, 2020

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A very happy birthday Vidhya!

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