Monthly Corner
IDH Publication, 2026
Gender-Based Violence (GBV) is not just a social issue, it’s a systemic challenge that undermines agricultural value chains.
In rural and isolated areas, GBV threatens women’s safety, limits their economic participation, and weakens food security. When women cannot work safely, entire communities lose resilience, and businesses lose productivity. Climate resilience strategies that overlook gendered risks leave communities exposed and women vulnerable.
Ending GBV is essential for building equitable, sustainable, and climate-resilient agri-food systems; and it’s not only a human rights imperative, but also central to climate adaptation and economic stability.
The good news? Solutions work. Programs like the Women’s Safety Accelerator Fund (WSAF) demonstrate that addressing GBV can enhance productivity and strengthen workforce morale and brand reputation. Safe, inclusive workplaces aren’t just good ethics, they’re smart business.
Gurmeet Kaur Articles
Luc Barriere-Constantin Article
This article draws on the experience gained by The Constellation over the past 20 years. It is also a proposal for a new M&E and Learning framework to be adopted and adapted in future projects of all community-focused organisations.
Devaka K.C. Article
Sudeshna Sengupta Chapter in the book "Dialogues on Development edited by Prof Arash Faizli and Prof Amitabh Kundu."
Events
Vacancies
- We’re Hiring: National Evaluation Consultant – Bangladesh
UN Women is recruiting a National Evaluation Consultant (Bangladesh) to support the interim evaluation of the Joint Regional EmPower Programme (Phase II).
This is a great opportunity to work closely with the Evaluation Team Leader and contribute to generating credible, gender-responsive evidence that informs decision-making and strengthens programme impact.
📍 Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh (home-based with travel to project locations)
📅 Apply by: 24 February 2026, 5:00 PM
🔗 Apply here: https://lnkd.in/gar4ciRr
If you are passionate about feminist evaluation, gender equality, and rigorous evidence that drives change (or know someone who is) please apply or share within your networks.
- Seeking Senior Analyst - IPE Global
About the job
IPE Global Ltd. is a multi-disciplinary development sector consulting firm offering a range of integrated, innovative and high-quality services across several sectors and practices. We offer end-to-end consulting and project implementation services in the areas of Social and Economic Empowerment, Education and Skill Development, Public Health, Nutrition, WASH, Urban and Infrastructure Development, Private Sector Development, among others.
Over the last 26 years, IPE Global has successfully implemented over 1,200 projects in more than 100 countries. The group is headquartered in New Delhi, India with five international offices in United Kingdom, Kenya, Ethiopia, Philippines and Bangladesh. We partner with multilateral, bilateral, governments, corporates and not-for-profit entities in anchoring development agenda for sustained and equitable growth. We strive to create an enabling environment for path-breaking social and policy reforms that contribute to sustainable development.
Role Overview
IPE Global is seeking a motivated Senior Analyst – Low Carbon Pathways to strengthen and grow its Climate Change and Sustainability practice. The role will contribute to business development, program management, research, and technical delivery across climate mitigation, carbon markets, and energy transition. This position provides exceptional exposure to global climate policy, finance, and technology, working with a team of high-performing professionals and in collaboration with donors, foundations, research institutions, and public agencies.
AEA Newsletter - EvalYear article
http://www.eval.org/blog/international-policy-update-welcome-to-the...
As you may already know, a growing number of evaluation associations and other important organizations around the world have declared 2015 as the International Year of Evaluation (EvalYear). But what does this mean for those of us in AEA?
First of all, please note that this is the International Year of Evaluation, not the Year of International Evaluation, and this difference is important. Indeed, there are many things happening around the world, but 2015 is also a year for each of us to promote the awareness, appreciation, demand, practice, and use of evaluation in our own work, no matter where we live or work. On the Evaluation Capacity Development Group website, long-time AEA member Alexey Kuzmin offers an amazing story and some excellent suggestions about making 2015 your EvalYear.
At the same time, it’s certainly true that many exciting things are happening on the global level:
- As Past-President Beverly Parsons told us last month, the United Nations recently adopted, for the first time in its history, a stand-alone resolution supporting the field of evaluation. You can read the full text of the U.N. resolution (Section III on page 4) here. You can also view the actual moment of adoption by the U.N. General Assembly, as well as a video about the U.N. resolution from Deborah Rugg, chair of the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG) and one of the main forces behind the resolution being adopted. Here's another video, by Tessie Catsambas, AEA’s former representative to the International Organization for Cooperation in Evaluation (IOCE), about the U.N. resolution, EvalYear overall, and the hard work of many persons over the years that has brought us to this historic moment.
- To provide a visual symbol of EvalYear 2015, an evaluation torch has been developed along the lines of an Olympic torch, and it was lit at a U.N. ceremony on December 17. This torch will travel – in spirit if not in reality – to every evaluation gathering during 2015, appearing at these evaluation gatherings around the world.
- Our own AEA conference in Chicago in November will be the last of 2015’s national-level evaluation gatherings, and AEA president Stewart Donaldson and the organizers have exciting plans to highlight the conference theme of Exemplary Evaluations in a Multicultural World: Learning from Evaluation’s Successes Around the Globe.
- In late November, shortly after the AEA conference, a Global Evaluation Forum will be held at the Parliament of Nepal, both to conclude EvalYear 2015 and to launch an exciting new Parliamentarians’ Network for Development Evaluation. Future newsletters will carry more details about this Nepal forum.
- Wisely looking beyond 2015, global evaluation leaders are hosting virtual discussion forums to develop a Global Evaluation Agenda for 2016-‘20. Here is more information about this planning process.
- Last, but definitely not least, Marco Segone, UNEG vice-chair and co-coordinator of EvalPartners, describes many of the diverse activities that will occur during 2015 and places them in a larger context. Marco has been one of the most important and most effective leaders behind many of the accomplishments noted above.
As you can see, this is an exciting year for evaluation, and the world will be filled with exciting events. But let’s not forget the practical, close-to-home advice from Alexey Kuzmin:
“The question is: What can 2015 become for each of us? What will your International Year of Evaluation look like? My suggestion is this: Let us have our own (individual) Year of Evaluation agendas. Let us do what is most natural for us considering our cultural, economic, and political environments. Those could be small things. But small is beautiful! Let us simply talk to people about evaluation – just a few more people and talks than usual. Let us use social networks to share that information with our friends and colleagues. We may want to do some pro-bono evaluation related work, or write articles on evaluation for non-evaluation journals.
“I do believe that the International Year of Evaluation can and should be celebrated by each of us individually. By doing small things, we can make a difference and will contribute to evaluation capacity development worldwide. And it will be fun!”
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