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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
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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.
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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.
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An interesting evaluation approach
Yesterday (13/12/18) I met David Fetterman, one of the most important theorists in programme evaluation area. He came to Claremont, at the invitation of the Claremont Evaluation Center, as one of the speakers of the CEC Speaker Series, short events generally performed at lunch time. It is always exciting to find reference authors of your literature. This is a common practice for authors of this area. The usual is to imagine someone with distant behavior and willing only to talk about their knowledge. No, it wasn't like that. In the short time we spend together we exchange photos of travel, impressions about children, we talk about life in a simple and light way. David came to talk about a very interesting approach called empowerment evaluation, i.e. "Evaluation for empowerment". he has several books on the theme and has given lectures worldwide. But what is this about? Many people believe that evaluation can only be done by external agents. Consultants, or auditors. Many consultants and auditors also believe that evaluations should be made without any involvement of the actors in the program (leaders, managers, teams and beneficiaries). After all, we have to be independent! But others argue that the involvement of the actors is prerequisite for legitimacy and extends the chance of using the results. There are several possibilities for actors involved in an evaluation. There is a degree of cooperation, where they play a supporting role, providing information and information. There is participation, where evaluators and actors work together in the various stages of evaluation. And there is a third level, where the actors are the main agents of the process. Here, the evaluators only facilitate the process. Being the main agent of the process means evaluating your own performance and taking responsibility for improving your initiative. As it should be. But how is independence? The "Evaluation for empowerment" has to be accompanied by evidence, which gives credibility to the process. This puts upside down the idea that the evaluator evaluates, the manager gets the results and someone makes decisions. In this case, the evaluator supports, the manager evaluates, learns and outlines the ways to improve. This approach is ideal for initiatives by small communities or organizations, where there are no resources to finance external consultancy work. Also, for organizations where monitoring and evaluating is an intrinsic activity of their skills, such as the councils of various social policies. Fetterman closed his day with us asking a provocative question: what kind of evaluator are you?
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Comment by Idrissa KABORE on February 1, 2019 at 14:42
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Good meeting and opportunity to learn more. I had an experience with participatory monitoring and evaluation (PME) at community level. I'm thinking what is the difference between "Evaluation for empowerment" and "Participatory monitoring and evaluation"?
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Comment by Rituu B Nanda on January 24, 2019 at 13:26
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You might find this blog I which I wrote on ownership of evaluations interesting https://gendereval.ning.com/profiles/blogs/ownership-of-evaluation-...
I love the question by David at the end! Many thanks for taking out time to post the blog Marcia. This gave us the opportunity to learn from you.
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