Dear colleagues,

It is a pleasure to share with you the gender sessions, communications and workshops that will be held in the next EES Biennial Conference, Dublin 1-3 October.

11EESConference_Gender_and_Evaluation_Sessions_and_communications.pdf

As the coordinator of the Gender and Evaluation Thematic Working Group from EES, I will try to share the main debates…

This message comes courtesy Marco Segone (UN WOMEN Evaluation Office and EvalPartners Co-Chair)

UNWomen, Claremont Graduate University and IOCE, under the EvalPartners initiative, with support from The Rockefeller Foundation and in partnership with ReLAC, IPEN and EvalMena, are pleased to announce the opening of the registration for the third 2014 cohort of the…

Equity in evaluation: Why is equity so important in evaluation? How can evaluations be better designed to account for equity issues?

I first started to think about equity as an issue in my work as a ‘development practitioner’ as a realistic alternative to the calls by development donors such as the Australian Aid Agency (AusAID) for ‘gender equality’. I say a realistic alternative because in the area of community development, which is where my work is mostly located,…

Dear Gender and Evaluation Colleagues,

I hope all is well. A few days ago I wrote you mentioning that I am currently conducting a research on the use of language in evaluation and I asked you to kindly share some valuable resources on this topic. The response has been pretty good so far and I am in the process of compiling a list of the recommended resources. Today, I would like to follow up and hear more about your own experience and thoughts on this subject.  In particular, I have…

The Institute of Social Studies Trust (ISST), in association with the Heinrich Böll Foundation, held the thirteenth Gender and Economic Policy Discussion Forum (GEP) on  'Engendering Policies and Programmes Through Feminist Evaluation' on 20 August, 2014. 

Dear colleagues,

I would like to share with you our last publication about gender equality, human rights and evaluation. The book Diferentes aproximaciones para hacer una evaluación sensible al género y al enfoque basado en derechos humanos para el desarrollo / Different approaches to carry out a gender and human rights sensitive evaluation. This is a publication of the Ministry of Foreing Affairs and Cooperation of the Government of Spain and it is based in a…

Every morning one lady bike rider passes me when my bus gets stuck in the jam on the way to my office. She goes ahead to her destination by driving her Scooty easily and naturally on the wide and narrow spaces on the road as like as a man. Every day when I see her I give her a salute and admire her courage because it is Bangladesh, a moderate Islamic country by the constitution, where a big part of the people do not support from their mind to let the women go out from home for working…