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Laura Hughston - Blog

Small Voices, Big Insights

Arnoux Mouafo Nopi & Dimitri Tsona Zapzi - Article

Femininity as an African Epistemology: Indigenous Knowledge and Evaluation among the Ngiembo’on of Cameroon

Prof. Wangari Mwai and Prof. Catherine Ndungo - BOOK

Understanding Gender and Identity Through The Gender Dictionary

Publisher: Bleeding Ink Scribes

RAI SENGUPTA - gender-transformative evaluation tools

Synthesis of Feminist Evaluation Innovations in Crisis Contexts,

This synthesis draws on evidence from 17 humanitarian evaluations across diverse crisis settings. It identifies key feminist evaluation innovations across four domains - design, methods, analysis, and ethics - illustrating how feminist principles can be embedded throughout the evaluation process. It also surfaces broader shifts required at policy, institutional, and practice levels to realise the transformative potential of feminist approaches in humanitarian contexts.

Feminist Evaluation in Crisis Toolkit

The toolkit translates these insights into applied guidance for evaluators and organisations. It provides step-by-step support across the full evaluation cycle, including planning, design, methods, analysis, ethics, and dissemination. Drawing on global feminist evaluation practice, humanitarian guidance, and gender evaluation standards, it includes adaptable tools, participatory and arts-based methods, guiding questions, and templates for field application.

Ritu Dewan & Swat Raju - Article

Economy and Inequality

In Promises & Reality 2026 Citizen’s Review of Year 2 of the NDA-III Government. Coordinated by Wada Na Todo Abhiyan, June 20, 2026. pp 94-100.

UTTHAN - Research Report

Localising Climate Knowledge & Strategies: Perspectives of Small and Marginal Women Farmers from Gujarat

Traversing the path with women farmers in their fields and in our reflections/writings, a stark observation was the sheer lack of localized and regional vocabulary and terminology to adequately capture and communicate the understanding of climate change and mitigation strategies, informed by the unique experiences and needs of small and marginal women farmers. This is what propelled our research - to examine how women farmers perceive, express, experience, and respond to climate variability across

Our Research Report centres the lived experiences, generational knowledge, and resilience strategies of small and marginal women farmers from the coastal (Bhavnagar) and hilly (Dahod & Panchmahal) regions i.e two contrasting agro-climatic zones of Gujarat. Through their voices, the study reveals exactly how climate change intersects with gender, land rights, labour burdens, and food security.

Events

Call for applications: Online Certificate Course on Gender-Sensitive Monitoring and Evaluation - 2026 Edition

July 6, 2026 at 10am to August 5, 2026 at 5pm – Online [Web-based]
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Online Certificate Course on Gender and Development (GDT) - 2026 Edition

July 10, 2026 at 9am to August 8, 2026 at 5pm – https://justicegroup.org/courses/gender-and-development/
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Online Course on Project Development and Management from a Gender Perspective - 2026 Edition

July 15, 2026 at 9am to August 14, 2026 at 7pm – Online [web-based]
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Vacancies

INCLUDOVATE - Call for Researchers, Pacific Focus

About the job

At Includovate, we are expanding our Pacific Research & Evaluation Talent Pool and inviting researchers, evaluators, consultants, and development practitioners to join a growing network of professionals committed to creating meaningful social impact.

As a feminist research incubator and certified social enterprise, Includovate works with partners including UNICEF, UNFPA, the ILO, governments, and development organisations across 23+ countries. Our work spans gender equality, social inclusion, health, disability, youth, climate, WASH, market systems, and other development priorities.

We are particularly keen to connect with experts from:
📍 Papua New Guinea
📍 Solomon Islands
📍 Vanuatu
📍 Timor-Leste
📍 Fiji
📍 Samoa
📍 Tonga
📍 Indonesia
📍 Australia
and across the wider Pacific region.

We welcome expertise in:
✓ Research, Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning
✓ Gender Equality & Social Inclusion
✓ Health & SRHR
✓ Disability Inclusion
✓ Youth Development
✓ Climate & Environment
✓ WASH
✓ Market Systems Development
✓ Governance & Community Development

Whether your expertise lies in data collection, research, evaluation, technical advisory, facilitation, or team leadership, we would love to hear from you.
By joining our Talent Pool, you become part of a trusted network of professionals who may be considered for future research, evaluation, advisory, and consulting opportunities across the Pacific region and beyond.

🔗 Register here: https://lnkd.in/eyF66S7H

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Laura Gagliardone's Blog (17)

UN Women Generation Equality Compendium of Lessons Learned 2026

I am pleased to share the UN Women Generation Equality Compendium of Lessons Learned 2026, which I had the honor to lead and author under the leadership of Alice Shackelford, UN Women’s UN System Coordination Division, Officer in Charge (Director).

This publication captures five years of implementation (2021–2026) from one of the most ambitious global efforts to advance gender equality.

Backed by evidence:

🔹 2,500+ commitments

🔹 USD…

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Added by Laura Gagliardone on July 3, 2026 at 0:36 — No Comments

Generation Equality 2026 Financial Commitments Analysis which I co-authored

As the 2030 deadline for the Sustainable Development Goals approaches, the Generation Equality 2026 Financial Commitments Analysis provides a snapshot of the Generation Equality financing landscape, drawing on the 2025 Financial Survey and previous reporting cycles. It covers $50.3 billion in pledges and $21 billion in reported expenditures, offering insights into financial flows, key…

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Added by Laura Gagliardone on March 11, 2026 at 2:59 — No Comments

ENSURING ACCOUNTABILITY IN GENERATION EQUALITY

To access the blog click here

To access the Accountability Report click here…

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Added by Laura Gagliardone on September 22, 2024 at 19:24 — No Comments

EVALSDGs EVALUATION INSIGHT (EI) on "Quick Tips to Assess the Risks of AI Applications in Monitoring and Evaluation"

The EVALSDGs EVALUATION INSIGHT (EI) on "Quick Tips to Assess the Risks of AI Applications in Monitoring and Evaluation", authored by myself, aims to provide practical guidance for monitoring and evaluating (M&E) the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.

In alignment with the United Nations 2030 Agenda, AI has revolutionized decision-making by harnessing big data and datasets for trend and pattern analysis. However, integrating AI into M&E processes…

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Added by Laura Gagliardone on June 3, 2024 at 17:26 — No Comments

BLOG: ‘WATER, SANITATION AND HYGIENE IN PROTRACTED CRISES: LEARNING THROUGH EVALUATION’

Blog for the Global Evaluation of UNICEF’s WASH Programming in Protracted Crises, 2014-19

https://www.unicef.org/evaldatabase/files/Blog_WiPC_Evaluation_22July2020.pdf

What did we learn?

Some of the most…

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Added by Laura Gagliardone on August 3, 2020 at 14:30 — 2 Comments

Global Evaluation of UNICEF’s WASH Programming in Protracted Crises, 2014-19

Happy to have facilitated the entire evaluation:

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

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Added by Laura Gagliardone on July 20, 2020 at 21:17 — No Comments

UNICEF HEALTH SYSTEMS STRENGTHENING EVALUATION

Happy to have supported the finalization and dissemination of this important report.
Do not miss its recommendations! Laura
https://www.unicef.org/evaldatabase/files/UNICEF_HealthSystemsStrengthening_report_web.pdf

Added by Laura Gagliardone on July 4, 2019 at 16:59 — No Comments

Evaluating innovation at UNICEF

Innovation for development is the key and UNICEF has made it an organizational priority.

Why is innovation important?

The world is changing faster than ever, as are the challenges facing its most vulnerable. Conflict and displacement, disasters and climate change, and urbanization and disease outbreaks are growing complex and interrelated. Exploring new ways of delivering programmes, with new partners and new technologies, is increasingly getting recognized as being crucial…

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Added by Laura Gagliardone on June 5, 2019 at 18:30 — 2 Comments

New York will be the first city in the world to report directly to the UN on the status of its implementation of the SDGs at the HLPF, 9-18 July 2018

http://sdg.iisd.org/news/new-york-city-announces-voluntary-local-review-of-sdg-progress/

The New York City Mayor and the Commissioner of the Mayor’s Office for International Affairs announced that New York City will…

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Added by Laura Gagliardone on June 18, 2018 at 20:04 — No Comments

BLOG: ADVANCING GENDER EQUALITY AND THE SDGs

BLOG I have written for AEA 365: ADVANCING GENDER EQUALITY AND THE SDGs: http://aea365.org/blog/icce-week-advancing-gender-equality-and-the-sdgs-by-laura-gagliardone/

Added by Laura Gagliardone on April 11, 2018 at 19:57 — No Comments

UNITED NATIONS celebrates International Women’s Day on March 8th, 2018

Website: http://www.un.org/en/events/womensday/

"Achieving gender equality and empowering women and girls is the unfinished business of our time, and the greatest human rights challenge in our world." - UN Secretary-General, António Guterres

Gender equality means giving both women and men the chance to…

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Added by Laura Gagliardone on March 5, 2018 at 19:15 — 2 Comments

WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT PRINCIPLES (WEPs) Gender Gap Analysis Tool

Introduction (video): https://youtu.be/_0PGrh1YylQ

The WEPs Gender Gap Analysis Tool is a free, user-friendly, and strictly confidential tool designed to help companies from around the world identify strengths, gaps, and opportunities to improve their performance on gender equality. Results are provided in a concise and clear format so companies can easily identify areas for improvement.

WEPs Gender Gap Analysis Tool:…

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Added by Laura Gagliardone on November 4, 2017 at 20:46 — 4 Comments

I BELIEVE IN A BETTER WORLD, AND YOU? MY 17 DAILY ACTIONS TO SUPPORT THE SDGs

Dear Gender and Evaluation Community, I am taking the initiative to show you an article I have written on my 17 daily actions to support the SDGs: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-believe-better-world-you-laura-my-17-daily-actions-sdgs-laura. It is working as engagement tool and, over the past weeks, I have received good comments which could be developed in ideas and…

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Added by Laura Gagliardone on July 5, 2017 at 12:40 — 2 Comments

EvalPartners Global Evaluation Forum III

http://www.evalpartners.org/global-evaluation-forum

Transforming our world through evaluation: engagement and partnerships for the better world we want

Dates: 25-28 April 2017
Location: Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Venue: Damas Hotel and Parliament of Kyrgyzstan

Added by Laura Gagliardone on April 21, 2017 at 14:31 — No Comments

Investigation on Women's Allocation of Time In India, Indonesia, and China (November 2015)

There is extensive literature on poverty, gender equality, and sustainable development but few data and information regarding how the use of time affects such issues. This report, through facts and figures, clearly shows that time spent in unpaid employment, mainly by women, contributes to economic growth even if it is generally ignored in economics. Therefore provides motivation for time use surveys (TUSs) to measure, monitor, and understand economic and social consequences of many…

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Added by Laura Gagliardone on November 22, 2016 at 0:00 — 2 Comments