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Participatory Video in the Women's Economic Empowerment Global Evaluation of UN Women

In August 2014, InsightShare trainers traveled to Moldova as part of an external evaluation in partnership with Impact Ready on the Women's Economic Empowerment global portfolio of UN Women.

Our trainers supported a local team made of government staff and rural women to listen to 54 women and men in Riscani district. The women and men themselves selected and filmed six most significant stories of change. The local team then analysed the stories and provided some…

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Added by Soledad Muniz on November 21, 2014 at 18:30 — 2 Comments

EES Connections

New issue of EES connections is now out and available at http://www.europeanevaluation.org/resources/connections.

Happy to see brief article on ISST panel on meta evaluations, page 11

Added by Ratna Mangala Sudarshan on November 20, 2014 at 9:06 — 1 Comment

Evaluation 2014, AEA, October 15- 18, Denver

AEA%20FINAL_10%20October_AEA_%20Evaluating%20individual%20and%20collective%20efficacy%20and%20leadershop%20skills.pptx

The AEA was a great learning experience for me, to listen to a diverse range of evaluators and evaluation methodologies. Though data visualization seemed to be the ‘flavour of the season’ and those sessions had a packed audience, there were equally interesting…

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Added by Madhu Joshi on November 17, 2014 at 9:30 — 2 Comments

GENDERING PEASANT MOVEMENTS, GENDERING FOOD SOVEREIGNTY

"What peasant and grassroots women want is to build a feminism pertinent to their realities." -Pamela Caro. 

November 4, 2014

Dr. Pamela Caro, Santiago, Chile

Interview Taken and Edited by Deepa Panchang and Beverly Bell

Pamela Caro is a director of the Program of Labor Citizenship with the Women’s Development Research…

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Added by Other Worlds on November 4, 2014 at 23:46 — No Comments

The legacy and sustainability of Participatory Video

Another field visit has passed like the wind. It left rich learning behind for all of us: for you and me. It’s been a pleasure really to hear local facilitators in Guyana, Cameroon, South Africa and the Philippines reflect on the legacy and sustainability of Participatory Video in their communities, alongside Jay Mistry from…

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Added by Soledad Muniz on October 30, 2014 at 0:27 — No Comments

What should be the Global Evaluation Agenda 2016-2020?

A roundtable consultation was organized on September 26, 2014 by Institute of Applied Manpower Research (IAMR), New Delhi, India in collaboration with national Planning Commission, Government of India to deliberate on the challenge as to how the global evaluation community can contribute to ensuring that evaluations play a key role in planning and implementation of policies and programmes for attaining future sustainable development goals at national, regional and international levels.  The…

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Added by Rashmi Agrawal on October 29, 2014 at 13:30 — 2 Comments

Dilemmas of development- reflections on a visit

I visited Khandwa district, Madhya Pradesh, India this month with the impressive NGO Eficor

There were remote villages untouched by 'mainstream development'. There were also villages near the town of Khalwa where industries had come up and health services were accessible. Interestingly children were better nourished (records of ICDS- weight by age) in the remote area, than the accessible one. Institutional delivery was however higher in the developed area. The remote…

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Added by Ranjani K.Murthy on October 25, 2014 at 17:06 — No Comments

Many thanks for the interest in our poster

Many thanks for the friendly comments about our poster! For those who wish to learn more about the research, feel free to visit the dedicated site www.evawreview.de and download the full review report. It comes with an executive summary.

To answer Rituu's question; I believe that one reason for our success is that the form in which we present findings from Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) is quite novel. Also, we put much effort into making…

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Added by Michaela Raab on October 14, 2014 at 16:40 — 1 Comment

Members presenting at AEA conference

Following members shared about their sessions- Tessie Catsambas, Sharon Brisolara, Patricia Rogers and Rakesh Mohan

 1. Feminist issues in Evaluation Topical Interest Group

Wed, Oct 15, 2014 (06:15 PM - 07:00 PM)



     Feminist Issues in Evaluation…


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Added by Rituu B Nanda on October 13, 2014 at 22:30 — 1 Comment

Who is attending AEA conference?

I am listing the names and photos of members who will be at AEA. Please leave your names in the reply below. Please add your profile photos so that others can recognise you. You can correspond with other members through send a message option.

Tessie Catsambas

Sharon Brisolara, United States…

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Added by Rituu B Nanda on October 13, 2014 at 19:00 — 7 Comments

Marco Segone: Preparing for 2015 International Year of Evaluation

Message from Marco Segone 

Dear colleagues,

 2015, the International year of Evaluation (EvalYear), is approaching quickly. We have the pleasure to share with you (Attachment) a proposed strategy to make 2015 EvalYear a success by levering the existing EvalPartners movement.

We invite you to lead an EvalYear 2015 process in your…

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Added by Rituu B Nanda on October 13, 2014 at 16:00 — 3 Comments

EES 2014

Back from EES 2014, very much lived up to expectations. A group of us had first gone in 2010 to the EES Conference at Prague and that was part of the process leading to the Engendering Policy through Evaluation project managed by Institute of Social Studies Trust (ISST), and to participation in EES 2012 and now EES 2014.  We are pleased to have been part of the Gender Strand started if I’m not wrong, in 2010.  Over these years, we’ve learnt a lot about evaluation approaches and methods and…

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Added by Ratna Mangala Sudarshan on October 9, 2014 at 12:00 — 1 Comment

Doing things right or doing the right things? Lessons from participation in EES, 2014

Participation in EES, 2014 was an excellent opportunity to rethink assumptions, meet friends again and see bits of Dublin.

What did I learn from the four days I spent at EES? I learnt from 'systems-thinkers' the distinction between doing things right and doing the right things.  If one has the wrong theory of change but a plan of action, one can land up doing planned things right, but not the right thing to address the issue that one wants to address be it poverty, HIV/AIDS, equity…

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Added by Ranjani K.Murthy on October 8, 2014 at 16:30 — 2 Comments

Strength-based evaluation to understand changes from gender & equity lens & stimulate further changes

Samraksha is a development organization which has been working with communities for more than two decades now. Samraksha started its work in the field of HIV and reproductive sexual health, and has always been committed to working with the communities in order to prevent the spread of HIV and reduce its impact on the affected people. In order to do this, we have always used strengths based approach and worked with different communities – communities of identity like those of women in sex…

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Added by Divya Sarma on October 6, 2014 at 16:30 — No Comments

Our award-winning poster at the EES conference

My associate Wolfgang Stuppert and have been delighted about the 'best poster award' we won at the recent biennial conference of the European Evaluation Society (EES). This is because we have invested lots of time and effort to figure out how to present the rather complicated results of our Qualitative Comparative Analysis of 39 evaluations in the field of violence against women and girls. We're glad our efforts have been rewarded.…

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Added by Michaela Raab on October 6, 2014 at 15:00 — 6 Comments

Gender sessions, communications and workshops in the next EES Biennial Conference, Dublin 1-3 October

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…

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Added by Julia Espinosa on September 29, 2014 at 15:02 — 1 Comment

EvalPartners offer e-courses on Evaluation from 29th Sep 2014-19th Jan 2015

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…

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Added by Rituu B Nanda on September 28, 2014 at 10:00 — 2 Comments

Equality and equity in evaluation

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,…

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Added by John Donnelly on September 22, 2014 at 9:30 — 2 Comments

Cultural Competence and Language in Evaluation: Share your Experience!

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…

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Added by Michele Tarsilla on September 9, 2014 at 22:30 — 9 Comments

ISST-HBF FORUM - 'ENGENDERING POLICIES AND PROGRAMMES THROUGH FEMINIST EVALUATION'

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. 



Ms Katherine Hay, Ms Ranjani Murthy, Ms Yamini Atmavilas, Ms Urmy Shukla presented at the forum which was chaired by Ms Ratna Sudarshan. …
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Added by Tania Kahlon on September 4, 2014 at 13:42 — No Comments

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