We recently had a seven-week (January to March 2016)  E-discussion on SDGs and Gender-responsive and Equity Focused Evaluation on Gender and Evaluation community. Sincere thanks to each and everyone who contributed to the discussion.  https://gendereval.ning.com/forum/topics/eval-sdgs We compiled summaries of the four themes of the discussions and presented at…

With the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) ahead of us, the evaluation community has started thinking about what role evaluation will play to help achieve this commitment. How will we assess what works and what doesn’t? What tools do we need to develop right now to be prepared for evaluating policies geared towards achieving the SDGs?  How can we ensure that we are leaving no one behind when we evaluate progress against the SDGs? Under the leadership of the…

Conducting an independent evaluation of public policies: Approaches and tools from evaluation-life experience  (WS-2), workshop session delivered to participants in Kathmandu (Nepal), 24/11/2016.

To date, various public and private organizations are still struggling to get an independent evaluation of the impact of their interventions. The technical capacity of staff and other evaluation practitioners is one of the main weaknesses. This workshop provided a strategic and…

Bonjour à vous,

Du 15-18 mars 2016, s'est tenu à New York un panel de haut niveau sur l'évaluation des objectifs de développement durable dans une perspective d'équité et de genre.

Les différentes thématiques en prélude à la rencontre de New York ont été examinées en profondeur à travers des plénières et des ateliers:

• Thème 1: La pertinence des «nouvelles métriques» (outils de mesure et indicateurs) pour l'évaluation des objectifs de développement…

Reprinted from: https://encompassworld.com/blog/5-practices-sdg-ready-evaluation 

In September 2015, the 193 Member States of the United Nations signed the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable…

Reflective Practice – Ideas for how to begin: Free Writing

NOTE: I wrote this Blog on the 14th May 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…

Prompting personal and team reflection and learning: An adaptation to the Personal Learning Journal process

NOTE: I wrote this Blog on the 22nd January 2015  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…

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…