1.0 Context:   Dalit women are discriminated against by intersections of caste, class and gender. Amongst Dalit women in Tamil Nadu, Arunthathiyars (AR) are the most exploited and steeped in poverty. Arunthathiyar women and men have no agriculture land, own limited livestock, are typically underemployed, and…

Dear all at Gender & Evaluation,

INTRAC’s free resource for M&E practitioners, the M&E Universe, has been updated with six new papers on the M&E of advocacy. The papers are written by Nigel Simister and Jenny Ross, and form the first part of the new M&E of Development Approaches section.

 INTRAC produces the M&E Universe for the benefit of civil society professionals and organisations around the…

Happy to have facilitated the entire evaluation:

https://www.unicef.org/evaldatabase/index_103951.html…

James Pann, Ph.D., interviews Kylie Hutchinson on the importance of learning from evaluation mistakes and paying attention to red flags.



Kylie is the 2020 recipient of the Canadian Evaluation Society's Award for Contribution to Evaluation in Canada and has spent the past thirty years working in the not-for-profit sector as a consultant, trainer, program manager, board…

I am pleased to share the Evaluation Community of India's newsletter for the quarter April to June'20

The attachment is below the picture…

Please to share an e-guide on ethical considerations for social research and evaluation

Guidelines-for-Ethical-Considerations-in-Social-Research-Evaluation-In-India_2020.pdf…

I am posting this blog on behalf of Dr Archna Kumar.

Evaluation Community of India organised Evalfest in Feb'20. We had a session on Innovation Bazaar. 

There was one group which shared  experiences from numerous research studies conducted in different regions of India, by Professors, and Doctoral and advanced Master’s scholars of Department of Development Communication and Extension, Lady Irwin College, University of Delhi. These were the presenters

• Archna Kumar,…

I am very happy to share with you the UN Women Rapid Assessment Tool to Evaluation Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Results in Humanitarian Context  now available on UN Women’s website.   

This is a rapid tool that can help M&E officers assess in a quick way the degree of…

By Rania Fazah

During one of my interviews (meetings) with a woman volunteer in Nigeria active in deradicalization programs, a woman mid-40s wearing the traditional outfit, covering herself from head to toe with a colorful pattern! My assumption when I met her, this is a happy woman! (in conflict contexts don’t assume peace fighters are happy). I asked her what was her motivation to join the program to deradicalize youth? Why she chose to get involved with the “BOKO…

Evaluation community of India with CareIndia iorganised a Webinar entitled "Evidence on gender equity and inclusion towards women's empowerment: A reflection on lessons and challenges" under the glocal evalweek 2020 on 4th June 2020 at 5.30 PM (IST). (see more on glocal evalweek: https://www.glocalevalweek.org/)

Gender…

It is always a complex issue for me to look at gender in isolation of masculinity and femininity. This is a neglected aspect of most of the evaluations done on gender, which I think is a key dimension and in isolation of the masculinity-feminity analysis, gender evaluations tend to lose their validity.  

Recently I was asked whether I would evaluation a programme in multiple states of India which was framed in pre COVID 19 times.  The criteria suggested was the DAC criteria - relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and others (includes gender equality, sustainability, innovation).

To me it seemed important to add another criterion- resilience.  How far had the programme strengthened resilience to such medical disasters and its consequences for migrants and informal sector?  To me…

Covid 19 pandemic lockdown has brought to fore the invisible workforce-the women of the household, and their contribution in the country’s economy. If not directly but definitely indirectly, by taking care of homes of their men family members, whom generally every country count as their main workforce. Thus neglecting the role played by a woman in the country’s growth and development, as a…

Do gender and equity sensitive assessments

NF%20Covid%2019%20Response%20on%20VAW.pdf

I hosted a Zoom call on Thursday, April 9th, 2020 to discuss evaluation in international development during COVID-19.

I asked people when registering for the call (about 75 people) to identify their biggest concern for evaluations at this time. Then I grouped these by theme. Below is this list. 

What are your biggest concerns?

What is your biggest concern for evaluations during COVID-19?

Comments from Registrants on Discussion on…

Please see my LinkedIn post for a 30 minute presentation on evaluation and value for money, featuring the MUVA female economic empowerment program and an approach to VFM assessment that combines strengths of evaluative reasoning and economics. 

Yesterday I was scheduled to give a guest lecture at Auckland Uni, but all teaching has gone online for the moment. So I pre-recorded the lecture on Zoom. There’s a first time for everything! Here’s a…

GlobalWA & SIF co-hosted virtual event on Proven strategies for stopping gender-based violence  March 18 via Zoom. Here are the resources mentioned on the call for your reference:

CARE’s Gender in Practice Primer: https://www.care.org/our-impact/gender-in-practice

 GBV Promising Practices on Gender in Practice Primer (under Priority…

Inspired by Barbara Klugman's extremely helpful blog on her virtual theory of change workshop, I would like to contribute a few lines on my recent experience with visualising across different remote sites.

Our workshop was not about building a theory of change from scratch, but about enriching and validating the theory of change my evaluation team had reconstructed. The workshop was not totally "virtual" either: We held it in a meeting room of the organisation that had commissioned…