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.…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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. 

Dear colleagues,

I would like to share with you our last publication about gender equality, human rights and evaluation. The book Diferentes aproximaciones para hacer una evaluación sensible al género y al enfoque basado en derechos humanos para el desarrollo / Different approaches to carry out a gender and human rights sensitive evaluation. This is a publication of the Ministry of Foreing Affairs and Cooperation of the Government of Spain and it is based in a…

Every morning one lady bike rider passes me when my bus gets stuck in the jam on the way to my office. She goes ahead to her destination by driving her Scooty easily and naturally on the wide and narrow spaces on the road as like as a man. Every day when I see her I give her a salute and admire her courage because it is Bangladesh, a moderate Islamic country by the constitution, where a big part of the people do not support from their mind to let the women go out from home for working…

I thought this network might be interested in some new guidance produced by the DCED: Guidelines for Measuring Results in Women's Economic Empowerment. 

The guidelines include practical advice on integrating women's economic empowerment into a monitoring system. Drawing on good practices and lessons learned from Making Markets Work for the Chars (M4C) and the Alliances Lesser Caucasus Programme (ALCP) in Georgia, the guidelines in particular offer suggestions for measuring…

In evaluation conferences, at times I hear "I do feminist evaluations, and not gender evaluations". Feminist evaluation places issues of power at the center of defining scope of evaluation, evaluation process and, how findings are used.  They look at intersections between gender and identities, and examine how the project/programme change social structures. Gender evaluations do not deal with issues of power and structures"

Having been taught about gender relations through reading…

This is just to let you know of a recently revised/updated  English language powerpoint training module we just released on our website and of the new Spanish and French translations as well. Everything is available on the following site:

http://www.cpc.unc.edu/measure/training/materials/m-e-of-gender-and-health-programs.html

Objectives:

By the end of this training…

Dear colleagues,



MEASURE Evaluation is pleased to announce the release of its newly published

Gender M&E eLearning course, an eLearning course hosted on USAID's Global Health eLearning

(GHeL) Center.

http://www.globalhealthlearning.org/course/gender-m-e



Integrating gender into monitoring and evaluation (M&E) is an important step towards understanding the…

Many people including women leaders and social workers are excited about women empowerment in development and under developed country. It is true that in those countries, there have been created many opportunities to empowered women and now women especially poor women of those countries are empowered themselves than last decades. Access in Micro finance and borrowing…

Dear all,

How do you feel about exploring new ways to shape evaluation conferences? Have you ever attended an Un-conference event?

I have put together some ideas on this topic on the post Shaking evaluation conferences with un-conference events at the EES Blog.

The issue is that, in my opinion, evaluation conferences are a…

Greetings from Beautiful Boise!

My new guest blog post on communicating with policymakers was published this morning by the Evaluation Capacity Development Group (ECDG).

I believe communication is probably one of the most important and challenging aspects of my job as the director of a legislative evaluation shop.  Policymakers are busy folks with many competing things on their minds.  Getting their attention isn’t easy. Having worked for them for so many years, I thought they…

The 2014 Annual General Meeting of IDEAS was held on 3rd July, at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.  There were 57 participants at the meeting, and the session was videotaped, so that those of us who could not be there nevertheless have an opportunity to follow the proceedings.  For those who wish to view the video on  any web browser or dedicated player

We…