Ritu, I would like to extend my apologies for delay to write this blog post.

Integrating knowledge management with gender mainstreaming indicator and with M&E system has been topic of great interest. Gender focal points and KM focal point are incomplete in the absence of strong and robust monitoring and evaluation system. There is need to develop comprehensive list of indicators depending on nature of the project design, outputs, outcomes and Impact. The finalized comprehensive…

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This blog explores the meaning of socialist feminist theories of change, and illustrates its application to promote safe migration of women.  It also analyses factors to be kept in mind while developing socialist feminist theories of change.

The author is grateful for the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women for inviting me to facilitate a workshop on the same this year and the participants in the same. They however bear no responsibility for shortcomings.…

What should projects accomplish… and for whom?

An unnamed international non-profit client contacted me to evaluate their resilience project mid-stream, to gauge prospects for sustainable handover. EUREKA, I thought! After email discussions with them I drafted an evaluation process that included learning from a variety of stakeholders, ranging from Ministries, local government and the national University who were to take over the programming work about what they thought would be most…

Dear GenderEval Colleagues,

I hope this note finds you well. I have been enjoying my e-mail exchanges with many members of this community this past year. My research on Evaluation Capacity Development (presented at the AfrEA Conference as well as at AEA and EES) as well as my recent study on Unintended Outcomes with Michael Bamberger and my even more recent research on cultural competence in evaluation (in French and English) gave me a unique opportunity to greatly benefit from your…

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…

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

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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…

"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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

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…

Message from Marco Segone 

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…

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…

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…

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.…