The Sustainable Development Goals represent an ambitious development agenda towards the year 2030.  Monitoring and evaluation will play a central role in ensuring and supporting effective compromise and implementation at country level.  This major challenge also represents an opportunity to overcome gender blindness in evaluations that perpetuates and even reinforces gender inequalities. Reducing gender gaps is not only a matter of justice, but a key factor to…

Hi everyone, I thought you'd be interested in our latest publication: a toolkit to use Participatory Video combined with MSC http://www.insightshare.org/resources/pv-and-msc-guide



Please feel free to read it, review it, use it and share it!

We would love to hear your thoughts about…

Dear Members,

Evalpartners through EvalGender+ http://www.mymande.org/evalgender was aiming to bring together those interested in gender-responsive and equity-focused evaluations. To include as many as possible in building this partnership - Marco Segone, Florencia…

EvalGender+ was launched during the Global Evaluation Week at the Parliament of Nepal on 25 November 2015 in front of 450+ development professionals and policy makers, including almost 100 Parliamentarians from all over the world.

EvalGender+, a new initiative by EvalPartners, is the global partnership to strengthen national capacities for gender-responsive and…

Le Réseau Francophone de l'Évaluation (RFE) regroupe une vingtaine d'associations nationales œuvrant dans le domaine de l'évaluation. Toute association francophone dans le domaine de l'évaluation désirant faire partir du RFE est la bienvenue.

EvalPartners a lancé un nouveau réseau EvalGender+ pendant le forum global de l'évaluation à Kathmandu le 25 Novembre 2015. Le RFE a fortement soutenu cette initiative. Pour promouvoir les évaluations axées sur l'équité et le genre, le RFE a mis…

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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

Today I was honored to present the attached presentation on "Evaluation of SDGs with a gender lens" in IDEAS General Assembly at Bangkok

Best. Marco…

Feminist%20Issues%20In%20Evaluation%20TIG%20Newsletter%20Oct20_2015.pdf

Hi everybody,

I wanted to share with you the recent Newsletter of the Topical Interest Group (TIG) on Feminist Issues in Evaluation, of the American Evaluation Association.  Many interesting news, articles and also highlights of the upcoming…

A few years ago in a workshop I was facilitating, a man grew impatient with the pace at which the women in his group were trying to reach a consensus. He literally put his foot down, said 'women talk too darn much and that's why we don't…

Ms Sindhu Khullar, CEO Niti Aayog (former Planning commission of India) launched the Evaluation community of India on 16th October 2015 in Delhi. A. K. Shiva Kumar a development economist and professor and Dr P K Anand, Senior Consultant,DMEO, were present on this occasion. In this video Ms Rashmi Agrawal (Director NILERD) shares how the ECOI came into being and what are its future aspirations. ECOI will be hosted by Institute of Social Studies Trust.  Find ECOI on facebook…