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this is a cross posting from http://hlanthorn.com/2015/11/26/thoughts-from-evalcon-on-evidence-uptake-capacity-building/. hope it is useful to folks who didn't make the think tank initiative's panel today in kathmandu.

i attended a great panel today, hosted by the think take initiative and…

Injustice and inequality are not written into our chromosomes.

Blog originally posted at http://http://betterevaluation.org/blog/gender_injustice_and_inequality-what_helps_in_assessing_impact

The UN has recently released its online publication…

Dear colleagues,

I am writing to ask you for a consultancy opportunity that I received yesterday. It is an assessment for Caritas Spain in India called: 

"COMMUNITY BASED & MANAGED APPROACH FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOOD OPTIONS FOR LANDLESS AND

MARGINALISED FARMING COMMUNITIES IN 7 DISTRICTS OF MADHYA

PRADESH”…

Message from Dr Lyn Alderman, President, The Australasian Evaluation Society on the launch of Evalgender+ at Evaluation Conclave in Kathmandu on 25th Nov 2015. She also elaborates on gender culture and equity in context of Australia. Thanks Dr Lyn!

Video courtesy: Dr Rajib Nandi and Rituu B Nanda 

Power is a key though tricky issue in evaluations, which becomes even trickier and sometimes gets hidden in multicultural complex contexts in Latin America.  On one hand, social change implies changing unequal power relations, and on the other, power relations are inevitably present in all interactions during the evaluation process.…

UNDERSTANDING GENDER

This is a constructed and attributed social roles, responsibilities, activities considered for men and women. As humans from different ethnic, religious and cultural backgrounds it  would be perceived from different angles but arriving to the same meaning as a set of economic, political roles, responsibilities and obligations…

Hello, all -

ODI has just published a new paper of mine, titled Addressing Gender in Impact Evaluation: What Should Be Considered?

In it, I argue against the increasing seepage of gender = women in international development, which is unhelpful and, at times, can unintentionally reinforce the idea of a fixed sex binary.

Let's keep seeing gender as a…

In culmination of the International Year of Evaluation and leading up to the EvalPartners Global Evaluation Week at the Parliament of Nepal, @unwomenEval with the support of @EvalPartners is hosting a live Twitter chat on leading the international evaluation community toward a global evaluation agenda from 2016-2020.

Join us on…

EvalPartners has teamed up with Universalia, a Canadian management consulting firm, to launch the EvalStory campaign. Eval story has posted my video sharing here with due credit to Universalia and Evalpartners.

Here is my story and experience from India. Hope you enjoy it