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Earlier this month was held the 7th AfrEA ( African Evaluation Association )…

Dear Gender and Evaluation Community

This is a bit late, but nevertheless I am posting my reflection on AEA, 2013 which I had the opportunity to attend. 

Comments most welcome. 

Best 

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South African Government Standards for Evaluation

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Dear All,

I was facilitating a daylong gender sensitization session with my project staffs working in dairy value chain in Bangladesh. I am sharing a PowerPoint (Gender Sensitization.pptx) of that session.

Actually the session was based on the tools used and lesson learned through a gender/equity sensitive monitoring and…

This information is courtesy John Lavelle. Thank you John!

For the 7^th African Evaluation Association (AfrEA) Conference, the Claremont Evaluation Center is proud to partner with AfrEA and the Rockefeller Foundation to bring you live webcasts of selected workshops and sessions from the conference free of charge! Even if you are not able to attend the conference in-person, you can still have access to the cutting-edge topics being discussed at AfrEA, and you will be…

Dear All

I am enclosing a recent powerpoint that I to facilitate a half day session on gender/equity sensitive indicators with a group of NGOs from Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu indicators.ppt. 

Often NGOs, government and at times even evaluation teams get stuck at monitoring process or output indicators, and do not adequately evaluate outcome and impact indicators. The…

Hi, Rituu asked me to tell something about the Shared Learning and Participatory Approach I'm working on... We called systematization!  

The word systematization is used in several disciplines, mainly in the sense of classifying, ordering data and information, that is “placing them into a system”. However, as it is understood in Latin America, systematization is much more than classifying, ordering and documenting a case. It has to do with obtaining lessons from our interventions, or…

The Middle East and North Africa Evaluators Network (EvalMENA) is pleased to invite you to its third general assembly taking place in Amman – Jordan on April 28-30, 2014…

Respected Members, Friends and Colleagues on the Blog and on the site

Received OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR GENDER BUDGETING IN THE NORTH EASTERN REGION AND ALSO FOR SYSTEMATISING TOTAL QUALITY CONTROL IN RURAL PRODUCTS UNDER NRLM. 

Launching livelihoodstrategies.org

Everyday in our endeavors as development professionals, researchers, policy makers, government representatives. we come across strategies that work for the poor, and some which don't. However there are lessons to be learned from all of these interventions.  The Development CAFE has started a…

Sharing DM&E for peace building site

http://dmeforpeace.org/

Asela

Dear friends and colleagues of the Gender & Evaluation Community,

I am delighted to introduce you to the Evaluation Stories Project. We are an EvalPartners Innovation Challenge Award recipient. The purpose of the Evaluation Stories Project is to solicit and publish a collection of stories, told from the…

UNWomen, Claremont Graduate University and IOCE, under the EvalPartners initiative, with support from The Rockefeller Foundation and in partnership with ReLAC and IPEN, are pleased to announce the opening of the first 2014 round of…

Ritu:

I am willing to volunteer for the community--I live in the US and has done evaluation work for the last twenty years. If needed, I can travel to India. Please let me know you need.

Thanks,   Sathi Dasgupta

The XI Gender and Economic Policy Discussion forum, organized by the Institute of Social Studies Trust (ISST) in association with Heinrich Böll Stiftung, on 'Taxation Policies- Implications on Gender and Equity' was held at the India Habitat Centre on 15 January 2014. Prof Ritu Dewan (University of Mumbai) and Ms Yamini Mishra (UN Women) presented at the forum, which was chaired and moderated by Dr Pronab Sen (International Growth…

Dear Members,

Warm greetings!

We set up Gender and Evaluation international online space last year on 16th January 2014, yes its our first birthday. This community was set up…

“Puttava (name changed) is a 10 year old girl whom we found in karavali junction slum area. She was washing utensils. She stated that she has to do all domestic work and also take care of her younger brother who is 3 years old. Both her parents are working as coolie workers at the construction site. She does not attend the local school because she has to take care of her younger brother. She is interested in going to school but circumstances do not allow her. She…

A short film made by Vani Subramanian.

Made on the occasion of a celebration of Devaki Jain's 80th birthday. An event celebrating Devaki Jain's work and contribution to the women's movement and feminist scholarship was held on the 18th of November, 2013 at the India International Centre, New Delhi. It was organised by the Institute of Social Studies Trust, the…

International Workshop on…