A friend recently shared an article published in an online edition of an English medium national newspaper. The article was well intentioned, and spoke about the weakness of non-compliance to universal accessibility regulations in Sri Lanka’s infrastructure and public spaces, and which results in marginalizing a significant minority in our society – who the writer references as the less abled.

This prejudiced use of terminology vexed me, and reminded me of the varying occasions where…

I had the great pleasure today of attending a wonderful webinar on adapting evaluations during the COVID pandemic. I especially enjoyed a very inspiring presentation by our very own Rituu and her exchanges with us. Here a few insights and lessons from her discussion:…

April 28th is World Day for Safety and Health at Work 2021 with the theme: Anticipate crises, prepare and respond: Invest today in resilient occupational safety and health systems.

Under the slogan Anticipate, prepare and respond: Investing in resilient occupational safety and health systems today, the International Labour Organization launched its dialogue on occupational safety and health in response to emergencies and crises.

The following…

Dear Colleagues,

Did you know that only 55% of women have autonomy over their bodies? Women have the right to make decisions about their bodies free from violence, fear, or coercion.

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) just launched their State of World Population 2021.

It highlights the importance of education, the critical role of health providers in upholding and affirming the bodily autonomy of those seeking information and care, social norms, and the…

Dear All,

I hope this post finds you well, and I wanted to share the link to the country profiles of the Human Development Report 2020. These newly released indicators are valuable for our context analysis. 

The country profiles have the following indicators:

• Human Development Index (HDI),
• Inequality-Adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI), 
• Gender Development Index…

Los ejercicios de capacitación que considero efectivos son aquellos que buscan entender laa experiencias de otros aprendices y nos permiten contextualizarnos con la situación global de las mujeres. La formación para la igualdad de género tiene el poder de transformar vidas y esto me…

Do not brand me, do not command me

Mother, sister, or wife, I need not be

Fie on you! Do not try to define me!

When you define me, you confine me

I am me, just me.

Do not ever limit my thought

Do not tell me what I am not

If I am selfish, I do not hold monopoly

If I am moody, see it not as some folly

I am me, just me.

Stop the labels, enough with the stereotype

Look deep in the mirror, I hold no gripe

The burden of compassion, the burden…

On the occasion of World Health Day today, Global Health 50/50, the African Population and Health Research Center and the International Center for Research on Women launched the Sex, Gender and COVID-19 Health Policy Portal. The portal provides the most comprehensive review of the integration of sex and gender into national COVID-19 public health policies globally.…

Originally posted here:

http://https://www.jet.org.za/news/samea-blog-conducting-online-focus-group-discussions-during-health-crisis-facilitator2019s-and-evaluator2019s-reflection

1. Introduction

Use of Online Focus Groups Discussions (FGD) has expanded…

The attached Abridged HealthRise project report summarizes the main results of the recent evaluation of the SALT-CLCP interventions for Non-Communicable Diseases (Diabetes & Hypertension) carried out in Udaipur and Shimla (India).

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We are particularly happy to share that report with all Constellation…

I get tired and then I get up too .

I smile and I frown too

I work and I laze too

I sleep and I get up early too

I dream and I am realistic too

I complaint and be complacent too

I compliment and I want appreciation too.

Yes I am all this and all that more

But I don't want to be celebrated on only one day anymore

I believe in rights

And call upon you to say it out loud too

Equality, Dignity, Freedom is how we wish

Happy International…

“Collective action remains the best way of renewing the march towards the great trinity of liberty, equality, and solidarity.”

-Guy Standing

The SALT approach is a mental attitudinal technique applied for the participatory evaluation process which helps in defining the collective consciousness for the necessary collective action.

My SALT experience started when I got the chance to closely observe the self-evaluation process of…

Dear colleagues,

Please join us in this IWD to challenge our beliefs and join the  I #choosetochallenge campaign.

EvaGender+ is committed to strengthen and advance gender-responsive evaluation that can assess the degree to which gender and power relationships – including structural and other causes that give rise to inequities, discrimination and unfair power relations – change as a result…

'No Room for Misinterpretation'

The jurisprudence of the CEDAW committee seem to be the least well known and the least referenced, compared to all of the other committees for the various human rights conventions. I'm determined to change this! 

I'm preparing to write some articles which emphasize some key findings and judgements that the committee has made over the years. And where relevant highlight some of its failings.

While I was analysing the cases…

What are the possibilities for impact evaluation in the private sector?

We found that there is a big opportunity for training in this field and at least in Latin America, companies and private foundations are willing to keep on learning on how to implement this type of evaluations. What will be your role in this challenge?

Find more about main challenges for impact evaluation in Latin America in a paper we developed together with …

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Desde el año 2015 se celebra cada 11 de febrero el Día Internacional de las Mujeres y las Niñas en la Ciencia. #MujeresEnCiencia inspiran al mundo con sus logros, perseverancia y valor. Con ocasión a esta fecha les comparto mi artículo, gracias por leerlo y compartirlo: …

En algún momento me compartieron un vídeo donde preguntaban a un grupo de niñas: “¿Puedes nombrar algunos inventores ?, a lo que ellas respondieron: Benjamín Franklin, Leonardo Da Vinci, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, entre otros. Sin embargo, cuando les hicieron la pregunta “¿Puedes nombrar a alguna inventora?”, Respondieron: “No, qué difícil, en la escuela…