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Laura Hughston - Blog

Arnoux Mouafo Nopi & Dimitri Tsona Zapzi - Article 

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

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.

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

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

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

InstituteofSocialStudiesTrust's Blog (7)

"Ghar ka koi kona pasand nahi hai”: Young Women and the Search for Space

“Aapko ghar ka kaunsa kona pasand hai?”— what began as a simple question during a conversation with young women (17–24 years) in Kalyanpuri soon unfolded into something much deeper.

After giving it a lot of…

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Added by InstituteofSocialStudiesTrust on June 25, 2026 at 13:18 — No Comments

What If Gender Equality Also Needs Men? Rethinking Gender Work Beyond the Usual Comfort Zone, By - Ribeiro Vasco Nhambi

This action brief argues that contemporary gender-equality programming remains incomplete when it fails to integrate men as active, reflective, and legitimate participants in social transformation. While the historical and political focus on women is justified, the systematic exclusion of men from gender initiatives produces an imbalance that limits transformative impact and leaves gender norms unchallenged. Recognizing men not as obstacles but as gendered…

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Added by InstituteofSocialStudiesTrust on December 26, 2025 at 11:30 — No Comments

Revenge Porn Isn’t About Images: It’s About Control

Revenge Porn Isn’t About Images: It’s About Control

By - Shipra

Intimate relationships often begin with hope, of trust, companionship, respect, and a…

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Added by InstituteofSocialStudiesTrust on December 15, 2025 at 13:04 — No Comments

Who Really Holds the Phone? Digital realities of children in the urban margins of Delhi

 By Rajeev, Dharmendra and Shipra…


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Added by InstituteofSocialStudiesTrust on June 13, 2025 at 15:56 — No Comments

Empowering Women Farmers: Unveiling Utthan’s Strategic Approach from Farms to Future

In the quiet expanse of Bhavnagar, where tradition and modernity converge, a beacon of change is quietly revolutionizing the lives of women farmers. This transformative journey is intricately woven into Utthan's practice of Sustainable Farming, a blueprint for empowerment that transcends conventional interventions. We unveil the soul-stirring narrative, where Utthan's Sustainable Technical Innovation Bundles (STIBs) emerge…

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Added by InstituteofSocialStudiesTrust on March 26, 2024 at 15:00 — 1 Comment

Unveiling ‘The Help’ in India: Understanding the Plight of Domestic Workers Amid Daily Humiliations

Unveiling ‘The Help’ in India: Understanding the Plight of Domestic Workers Amid Daily

Humiliations



Diksha Shriyan



On February 21, more than 300 women domestic workers and their daughters gathered opposite the Labour Commissioner’s office in India’s national…

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Added by InstituteofSocialStudiesTrust on March 26, 2024 at 14:30 — No Comments

SALE! SALE! SALE! - A growing market for women’s digital data

Seema gets scared every time her phone rings. She has been receiving calls from an unknown caller for a while who wants to be her ‘friend’. Despite her clear indication that she does not want the same, he continues to harass her. According to a Truecaller report in India, as of 2019-2020, 8 in every 10 women receive harassment and nuisance phone calls at least once a week. Most of these calls are from unknown acquaintances. The…

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Added by InstituteofSocialStudiesTrust on December 26, 2023 at 12:30 — No Comments

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