SONAL ZAVERI's Posts - Gender and Evaluation2024-03-29T15:13:47ZSONAL ZAVERIhttps://gendereval.ning.com/profile/SONALZAVERIhttps://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2219380636?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1https://gendereval.ning.com/profiles/blog/feed?user=1ki6awlzgrl2b&xn_auth=noAnnouncing winning the honourable mention for the IDEAS Evaluation for Transformation Change Awardtag:gendereval.ning.com,2022-02-24:6606644:BlogPost:1552252022-02-24T04:03:57.000ZSONAL ZAVERIhttps://gendereval.ning.com/profile/SONALZAVERI
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Dear friends,</p>
<p>I am very honoured to announce that my evaluation “Real Time Evaluation of Gender Integration in the UNICEF COVID-19 Response in South Asia” was assessed among the top ones in the Award category "Evaluation as transformation" and has received an honourable mention of the Award! It is particularly important as it has embedded feminist principles in the evaluation design.</p>
<p>The Award Steering Committee represented by IDEAS, Independent…</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Dear friends,</p>
<p>I am very honoured to announce that my evaluation “Real Time Evaluation of Gender Integration in the UNICEF COVID-19 Response in South Asia” was assessed among the top ones in the Award category "Evaluation as transformation" and has received an honourable mention of the Award! It is particularly important as it has embedded feminist principles in the evaluation design.</p>
<p>The Award Steering Committee represented by IDEAS, Independent Evaluation Office of IFAD, and the Independent Evaluation Group of the World Bank Group announced the results of the Evaluation for Transformational Change Award, 2022 edition.</p>
<p>The evaluation approach was “Real Time Evaluation” of gender integration, broadly based on the principles of Developmental Evaluation, leading to continuous learning and adaptive management, enabling the real-time utilisation of evaluation findings to course-correct and influence policy and programmatic responses in the SAR to the Covid-19 pandemic. It employed a rigorous methodology for evidence generation and ‘evaluative empowerment’ processes to deliver accelerated change.</p>
<p>For more details, please check out the IDEAS website</p>
<p><a href="https://ideas-global.org/award-2022/award-results-2022/">https://ideas-global.org/award-2022/award-results-2022/</a></p>
<p>The UNICEF site also hosts the report, along with the presentation and other reports developed for this evaluation.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.unicef.org/evaluation/reports#/detail/17393/real-time-evaluation-rte-of-gender-integration-in-unicef-covid-19-response-south-asia">https://www.unicef.org/evaluation/reports#/detail/17393/real-time-evaluation-rte-of-gender-integration-in-unicef-covid-19-response-south-asia</a></p>
<p>All of us, gender champions, may find the report of interest as we continue our journey to ensure that gender and equity are at the center of our evaluation processes.</p>
<p>Please feel free to connect with me for queries and comments. </p>
<p>Best </p>
<p>Sonal </p>My article in World Development Symposiumtag:gendereval.ning.com,2019-12-26:6606644:BlogPost:916752019-12-26T02:52:43.000ZSONAL ZAVERIhttps://gendereval.ning.com/profile/SONALZAVERI
<p>Dear friends,</p>
<p></p>
<p>World Development, the leading academic journal of development studies has published an Inaugural Symposium on RCTs in <u>Development and Poverty Alleviation</u></p>
<p>under the leadership of its editor Arun Agarwal, to recognize the work and contributions of the joint winners of the 2019 Nobel prize for Economics - Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Interestingly, the Symposium wanted to capture diverse voices either in support…</p>
<p>Dear friends,</p>
<p></p>
<p>World Development, the leading academic journal of development studies has published an Inaugural Symposium on RCTs in <u>Development and Poverty Alleviation</u></p>
<p>under the leadership of its editor Arun Agarwal, to recognize the work and contributions of the joint winners of the 2019 Nobel prize for Economics - Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Interestingly, the Symposium wanted to capture diverse voices either in support of or critical of experimental approaches, but based on scholarly reasoning and evidence including reflections on one’s own empirical work.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>I took the opportunity to submit an article that represents a practitioner-evaluator viewpoint and discusses much of the work we evaluators are passionate about. World Development received 100 abstract submissions and finally accepted 52 submissions. The Symposium is amazing in the variety of perspectives and I am happy that my ‘voice’ was heard. I learned a lot regarding getting the abstract accepted and writing for this journal. I am convinced more than ever that we, evaluators, need to make bridges with other disciplines and sectors and learn to explain our craft better.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>The World Development Symposium has articles from prominent thinkers so please do check it out. <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/world-development/special-issue/10SS6PP6QMS">https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/world-development/special-issue/10SS6PP6QMS</a></p>
<p> </p>
<p> My article is available at this link (open access till February 7, 2020) <a href="https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1aFh0,6yxDAYSu">https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1aFh0,6yxDAYSu</a></p>
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<p>Feel free to share it through your network!</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Best wishes for the new year,</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Sonal Zaveri</p>Outcome Mapping and Gendertag:gendereval.ning.com,2017-08-03:6606644:BlogPost:674912017-08-03T17:30:58.000ZSONAL ZAVERIhttps://gendereval.ning.com/profile/SONALZAVERI
<p>Dear Friends, </p>
<p>You may want to have a look at this new resource from the Outcome Mapping Learning Community. </p>
<p>I analyze and reflect on how Outcome Mapping and Gender concepts align. See here <a href="https://www.outcomemapping.ca/download/Discussion%20Summary-%20OM%20and%20Gender.pdf">https://www.outcomemapping.ca/download/Discussion%20Summary-%20OM%20and%20Gender.pdf</a></p>
<p>It is based on several months of discussion with the online community. You can view the discussion…</p>
<p>Dear Friends, </p>
<p>You may want to have a look at this new resource from the Outcome Mapping Learning Community. </p>
<p>I analyze and reflect on how Outcome Mapping and Gender concepts align. See here <a href="https://www.outcomemapping.ca/download/Discussion%20Summary-%20OM%20and%20Gender.pdf">https://www.outcomemapping.ca/download/Discussion%20Summary-%20OM%20and%20Gender.pdf</a></p>
<p>It is based on several months of discussion with the online community. You can view the discussion here <a href="https://www.outcomemapping.ca/download/Discussion%20Summary-%20OM%20and%20Gender.pdf">https://www.outcomemapping.ca/download/Discussion%20Summary-%20OM%20and%20Gender.pdf</a></p>
<p>I look forward to your comments! </p>
<p>Best</p>
<p>Sonal</p>Evaluation Frameworks or Guidelines to evaluate programs for Adolescent High Risk Girlstag:gendereval.ning.com,2015-03-03:6606644:BlogPost:307172015-03-03T12:00:33.000ZSONAL ZAVERIhttps://gendereval.ning.com/profile/SONALZAVERI
<p>Dear Friends</p>
<p>I am writing to explore if any of our members are aware of evaluation frameworks or guidelines for evaluating programs that work with adolescents, particularly girls at high risk.</p>
<p>The Community of Evaluators South Asia, in partnership with Feminist Evaluators Network South Asia’s secretariat ISST (Institute of Social Studies Trust) and Positive Women’s Network India (PWN+) have been exploring the lived realities of high risk adolescent girls in several parts of…</p>
<p>Dear Friends</p>
<p>I am writing to explore if any of our members are aware of evaluation frameworks or guidelines for evaluating programs that work with adolescents, particularly girls at high risk.</p>
<p>The Community of Evaluators South Asia, in partnership with Feminist Evaluators Network South Asia’s secretariat ISST (Institute of Social Studies Trust) and Positive Women’s Network India (PWN+) have been exploring the lived realities of high risk adolescent girls in several parts of India to acquire a better and more nuanced understanding of the engendered self in highly vulnerable communities of girls (HIV+ or affected girls, girl children of sex workers, stigmatized girls because of caste, class, trafficked girls and child brides). We have been generously supported by an EvalPartners Innovation Challenge Award.</p>
<p>We are in the process of analyzing our findings and wanted to use the evidence to develop evaluation guidelines that would inform decision makers. Any help in directing us to available evaluation guidelines for adolescents and preferably girls would be greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>Thanking you in advance,</p>
<p>Sonal Zaveri</p>
<p>Sonal Zaveri, PhD<br/>Independent Consultant<br/>Secretary, Community of Evaluators South Asia<br/>International Adviser, Child-to-Child Trust, UK<br/>Mumbai India<br/>E Mail: sonalzaveri@gmail.com<br/><a href="http://betterevaluation.org/search/node/listening%20to%20smaller%20voices" target="_blank">http://betterevaluation.org/blog/evaluating_with_children</a></p>