Reflective Practice

NOTE: I wrote this Blog on the 20th March  2013 and it was posted on the Research Blog of the School of International Development, University of East Anglia, UK.

Its content is relevant to my practice as I guide and support organisations through their own self-reflective gender reviews /audits/assessments  to improve practice for gender equality…

 I am pleased to share the invitation to the roundtable on "Challenges and New Paradigms in Evaluation fro Development", which will take place in La Paz, Bolivia, this coming Thursday evening.  I wish you could all be here, but promise to share with you afterwards the key issues addressed and our future agenda to continue multi-actor and interdisciplianary dialogues on…

Con mucho gusto comparto con ustedes la invitación al Evento "Desafíos y Nuevos Paradigmas en Evaluación para el Desarrollo", a a realizarse este próximo jueves 31 en La Paz, Bolivia  Nos gustaría mucho contar con su presencia y participación, por lo que lamentamos mucho las distancias.  En todo caso, posteriormente compartiremos una sistematización de los temas abordados y…

Looking particularly into the Indian context, here are some of the thoughts, while we undertake the journey towards SDGs:

• Considering the diversities and complexities of the social & economic vulnerabilities & exclusion in India, achieving SDGs by 2030 will be as challenging as it was for MDGs, both for the Indian Government and the National & International Development partners / actors
• "Exclusion" is a key factor for the vulnerability and…

Dear Members,

Could not attend the recent event in New York? Summer Brennan from UN Women has compiled a story of the tweets posted during the event. Enjoy at  https://storify.com/unwomenEval/new-york-high-level-event-leave-no-one-behind…

¿No pudiste seguir el evento de Nueva York sobre EVALUACIÓN DE LOS OBJETIVOS DE DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE (ODS) CON LENTES DE GÉNERO Y EQUIDAD?  ¿No entiendes lo que se va publicando o quieres compartir información con otr@s colegas?

No tienes que preocuparte. En el grupo EVALGÉNERO, dirigido a toda la comunidad hispanohablante, hemos abierto una página (Evaluación…

The Global Gender Gap Report 2016 draws attention to the widening of gender gap in health and economic sphere. Two indicators are used in this report with respect to gender gap gap in health: gap in healthy life expectancy and sex ratio at birth (after adjusting for the fact that more males are born). Sex ratio at birth (female-over-male) amongst the countries studied has declined from 0.94 to 0.92 (1 being equality) between 2006 and 2015, while gender gap in healthy life expectancy has…

The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Development Critical Engagements in Feminist Theory and Practice  Edited By Wendy Harcourt is out!

“The Palgrave Handbook on Gender and Development plunges us straight into some of the most disturbing and important issues of our time.  Global injustice and violence; the nature of care and love; new forms of power and resistance; the politics of knowledge and the politics of sexuality; survival on an injured planet…. - Raewyn Connell, Professor…

Entretejiendo el Género en la Evaluación para la Transformación

Celebramos este 8 de Marzo, Día Internacional de la Mujer, con el lanzamiento de la Comunidad de Práctica EvalGénero, un espacio hisanohablante plural, democrático e intercultural para compartir, aprender y construir propuestas en torno a la incorporación del enfoque de género como criterio de calidad de las evaluaciones. …

In this blog I would like to use parts of the  Rajagopalan’s (2015) Immersive Systemic  Knowing framework. He distinguishes between four ways of knowing:  being, cognition, doing and learning. Being refers to ways of living, existing and relating with others and environment which is shaped by culture and history.  Cognition is the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses. Doing refers to activities in which one engages.…

In my previous blog, "What's in a baseline" in the last sentence I say, "...we need to put more emphasis on E and less on M in M & E". What I meant to say was exactly the opposite, that is, 'more emphasis on M and less on E in M & E'.

What I failed to do was monitor what I was doing. It was only later, when Rituu Nanda made a comment that I realized my error. But it was too late! This is exactly what happens so often in community development - outputs get monitored instead of…

I am a French sociologist and political scientist, working on the women’s movement in South Asia. I first heard about feminist/gender-responsive evaluation as I was starting to investigate the recent transformations of feminism in the region. I was immediately interested by the idea of “feminist evaluation”, as so far, as I had often heard of Monitoring and Evaluation as a burden for feminist/women’s oriented NGOs and project. I am both interested in the conceptual…

Gender equality: what’s in it for men?

When we talk about gender equality, aren’t we talking about women’s participation and empowerment? So why work with men? Involving men and boys in programmes on gender equality is something that has been overlooked for many years, but there is increasing evidence that in order to address gender inequality effectively, men have to become part of the debate and take up an active role in modelling positive gender attitudes and…

Recently I was in Afghanistan working with an NGO to establish a baseline for a project aimed at improving the participation of women in civic and political activity and also improving women's empowerment. The NGO had engaged me to help them with establishing a baseline after someone had given them my name as a practitioner who has a preference for practical, understandable methods where people can engage on their terms, in preference to using set surveys to extract data in response to…

Are the principles, values and ethics that guide gender-transformative evaluations different from those of other evaluations? Watch Renu Khanna discuss the same in the following video.

Did you enjoy the video? We invite you to share your thoughts and experiences.

This video is the second in the series of training videos produced under Institute of…

I just read two columns on linked in that I found very insightful and thought provoking. So I decided to share them. the tittles of the columns are: 

"4 Reasons Why Nobody Reads (or Uses) Your Evaluation Report:Here's How To Fix it"…

What are the questions that you would include in the ToR for evaluations, that highlight the impact related to issues on Gender and Diversity and also Social Inclusion? 

Webinar recording: No One Left Behind, Evaluating SDGs with an Equity-Focused and Gender Responsive Lens. The Webinar featured  • Marco Segone, co-chair, EvalGender+; Chair, United Nations Evaluation Group; and Director, UN Women Independent Evaluation Office 

• HE Kabir Hashim, Minister of Pubic Enterprise Development, Sri Lanka; and Chair, Global Parliamentarians Forum for Evaluation 

This was followed by Q & A round.

Find…

So you want to measure and/or evaluate a programme with Women’s Economic Empowerment? The programme is using a market systems approach? Don’t know where to start? I was equally curious. Luckily, a number of very smart and experienced people have written and spoken on the subject. Below are some of the key points that stuck with me while I’ve been reading up on this subject.

Understand your Intervention

To monitor and/or evaluate a programme, it is…