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Ranjani K.Murthy's Blog (63)
Attention to Gender and Equity in Evaluation Policies and Brochures of Development banks
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Measuring gender transformative change and intersectional equality
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There is a gap between the emergence of the concept of gender transformative change and assessing gender transformative change in evaluations. This presentation defines gender transformative change and intersectionality; introduces the process of assessing the extent of gender…
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Narratives of women's collectives: challenges and opportunities
Ranjani K Murthy, 2025
Background:
This presentation seeks to: a) define women’s collectives and explore different kinds of women’s collectives; b) share my experiences over the last forty years in forming and evaluating…
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Communication tools to unravel and address intersectionality inequality
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Individuals, groups and communities experience intersectional inequalities because of identity-based discrimination. These markers can be characteristics ascribed from birth – race, caste, religion, ethnicity, disability (some) and sex, or…
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Evaluating gender mainstreaming vs evaluating gender transformative change
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Gender mainstreaming means integrating a gender equality perspective at all stages and levels of policies, programmes, and projects. Women and men have different needs and living conditions and circumstances, including unequal access to and control over…
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Locating gender equality in evaluations: Choosing pathways
Since the popularity emergence of gender and development approach in the late 1980s, there have been debates on where and how to locate gender equality in evaluations.
At one end, most multi-lateral development banks do not have a separate evaluation criterion on gender equality. The focus is on relevance, effectiveness,…
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Looking back and looking ahead: Reflections on three decades of gender and development
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Expanding reach-benefit-empowerment and gender transformation framework
The CGIAR's Reach Benefit Empowerment and Transformation (RBET) distinguishes between approaches "that reach women participants, such as by including them in program activities; those that benefit women, by improving their circumstances in some way; those…
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Intersectional, inter-sectoral and development focus: Why they matter to gender transformative evaluations
Increasingly there is focus on "women" and "men" as analytical categories in gender transformative evaluations. This is necessary, but is it adequate? The answer is "No"
Women are far from uniform. One woman may progress at the expense of the other, like in the case of women from small farming household receiving support for mechanized harvesters which displace women form households without land.
While the project may be with regard to agriculture, unless she has access to…
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A fine balance: Balancing what is possible vs what we want achieved
Cross posted (1) A fine balance: Balancing what is possible vs what we want achieved | LinkedIn…
Added by Ranjani K.Murthy on March 25, 2023 at 16:11 — No Comments
Using UPRs to assess progress on SRHR: The case of BRICS
Added by Ranjani K.Murthy on December 22, 2022 at 12:00 — 3 Comments
Addressing Intersectionality in Evaluations: From Buzz Word to Institutionalisation
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This presentation of Ranjani K Murthy with Children Believe India in Evaluation Conclave 2022 argues that intersectionality needs to move beyond being a buzz word in evaluations; and be…
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Disjointed lines: Implementation history and development evaluations
Development evaluations take place in a historical context. Many interventions have in the past been initiated by government and other development organisations in a village (or urban low income settlement) when evaluations of a NGO project is commissioned in the "now". A key question is how to delineate impact of past interventions by other organisations on present…
Added by Ranjani K.Murthy on September 6, 2022 at 15:44 — 1 Comment
Intersectional lens to development indices
Since the 1990s, development is measured not just by economic growth, but also human development index, gender development index, gender empowerment measure, gender inequality index, global gender gap index and so on. However discrimination in its various forms continues, and apart from economic and gender discrimination few measure of other forms of…
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Deepening SDG 5 monitoring from an intersectional lens
Ranjani K Murthy
Examining the SDG 5 tracker (https://sdg-tracker.org/gender-equality#targets) after a field visit and interviews with women/girls and men/boys from economically and socially discriminated groups in the states of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, India, I felt the urgent need for strengthening monitoring mechanisms for tracking SDG 5 from a gender and intersectionality lens- without which it…
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Context analysis of evaluation reports from a gender, intersectionality and rights lens
In an earlier blog (https://gendereval.ning.com/profiles/blogs/from-gender-and-development-to-gender-intersectionality-rights), I argued the need to shift from gender and development (GAD) to gender, intersectionality, rights and development (GIRD) approach if SDG5 are to be achieved by 2030, and if the Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Discrimination Against…
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From Gender and Development to Gender, intersectionality, rights and development- From GAD to GIRD
The prelude: Gender and development approach
Gender and Development emerged as an approach to examine and address women’s development in the late 1980s. In her seminal article Gender Planning in the Third World, Caroline Moser[1] argued that the Gender and Development approach (GAD) approach conceptualised that women were not the problem, but the…
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Gender transformative evaluations: Negotiating power, intersectionalities, contexts, and accountability
Gender transformative evaluations: Negotiating power, intersectionalities, contexts, and accountability
Ranjani K Murthy, Anweshaa Ghosh and Ayesha Dutta, 2021
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Development evaluations take place within social hierarchies and can both reflect and challenge these hierarchies. In this discussion paper the authors reflect on their experiences in facilitating gender transformative…
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USING PICTURES TO FACILIATE MARGINALISED WOMEN’S MONITORING OF PROGRESS ON BEIJING+25 PLATFORM FOR ACTION IN SOUTHERN INDIA: LESSONS FROM PILOT TESTING
Ranjani K Murthy, Vasantha R., Assumpta P., Gilbert Rodrigo and monitoring team, 2021
The grassroots NGO Gandhian Unit for Integrated Development Education (GUIDE)- a women’s rights organisation with vision of empowering women- received support from Women Fund Asia for facilitating a study on monitoring progress on Beijing+25 in two southern states Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. The monitoring process was both desk/statistics based and based on marginalised women’s monitoring of progress…
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Monitoring, Evaluating and Furtheirng Progress on Gender and Economic Equality and Women's Economic Empowerment
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- Attention to Gender and Equity in Evaluation Policies and Brochures of Development banks
- Measuring gender transformative change and intersectional equality
- Narratives of women's collectives: challenges and opportunities
- Communication tools to unravel and address intersectionality inequality
- Evaluating gender mainstreaming vs evaluating gender transformative change
- Locating gender equality in evaluations: Choosing pathways
- Looking back and looking ahead: Reflections on three decades of gender and development
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