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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:
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and across the wider Pacific region.
We welcome expertise in:
✓ Research, Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning
✓ Gender Equality & Social Inclusion
✓ Health & SRHR
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✓ Climate & Environment
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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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Assessing progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 5 at national and community levels
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Guest lecture by Ranjani K Murthy organized by Community of Evaluators, Nepal, 20th June, 2016
This session seeks to demonstrate how progress towards SDG 5 could be assessed from national to community level using statistics and gender-sensitive participatory methods respectively |
Background to SDG 5
Gender integration in Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is an improvement over integration in Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in many ways. Apart from a stand-alone SDG (5) ‘Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls’, gender equality is integrated into several other of the 17 goals (though not all). Targets of stand-alone goal on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment cover spheres not in MDGs like ending all forms of discrimination, violence and harmful traditional practices against women and girls. Targets also emphasise women’s equal access to, and ownership, of productive resources, equal participation in decision making in all realms, valuing unpaid work, promoting shared responsibility promoting universal access to SRHR etc.
Indicators been evolved by the Inter-Agency Expert Group meeting, 2016 related to 169 targets (for 17 goals) which it divides into three tiers
- Tier I: Indicator conceptually clear, established methodology and standards available and data regularly produced by countries
- Tier II: Indicator conceptually clear, established methodology and standards available but data are not regularly produced by countries
- Tier III: Indicator for which there are no established methodology and standards or methodology/standards are being developed/tested
As of March, 2016, eighteen (18) indicators have been evolved related to SDG 5
Monitoring SDG-5
Progress towards SDG-5 can be assessed from national to community levels, and some even at the household level! At national level progress can be assessed for Tier I indicators. To give an example, proportion of women in Parliament and local governments is a Tier I indicator and progress in this regard can be assessed using national statistics. The frequency with which data on unpaid work of women/girls and men/boys- a Tier II indicator- is gathered may need to be increased. However, assessing Tier III indicators like proportion of women aged 15-49 years who make their own informed decisions regarding sexual relations, contraceptive use and reproductive health care require sub-indicators. These need to be developed in national/ethnic/community context and both qualitative and quantitative sub-indicators are required Taking examples the speaker illustrates how an indicator could be tracked nationally, and brainstorms on developing sub-indicators for Tier III indicators.
At the district level, decentralised monitoring of relevant/prioritised SDG indicators is possible for SDG 5, and was attempted with MDG 3 on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment and other MDGs by UNDP in developing countries. At district and community levels leaders of women’s groups/CBOs, trade unions, local government and NGOs should prioritize international SDG 5 indicators relevant to their context and add news ones where necessary. Apart from government data, participatory gender-sensitive methods could be used for monitoring progress towards SDG 5, illustrated with a few examples
SDG Target |
Indicator |
Method |
5.1 |
End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere |
Discrimination matrix, role plays and stories |
5.2 |
End Domestic violence by intimate partner |
Violence mapping |
5.2 |
End violence by non-intimate partner |
Violence mapping |
5.3 |
Eliminate early marriage |
FGDs |
5.4 |
Equal sharing of work |
Twenty four hour clock by sex |
5.5 |
Equal decision making by women |
Mapping: Representation, attendance, agenda setting influence, decision making by sex |
5.6 |
Universal sexual and reproductive health and rights |
Body mapping |
5.7 |
Equal Ownership of resources |
Gender-sensitive resource mapping |
Using data to evolve plans and policies is important!
HAPPY MONITORING OF SDG 5!
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Comment by Rukmini Panda on July 19, 2016 at 15:50
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sure Ranjinidi. Thanks to you also for so thoughtfully presenting the methods.
Regards
Rukmii
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Comment by Ranjani K.Murthy on July 19, 2016 at 15:07
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Dear Rukmini and Susanna
Thanks for your kind comments
If you try using this and have queries please email me at rk_km2000@yahoo.com. Will respond.
Best Ranjani
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Many a thanks Ranjinidi. Its really very useful discussion.
Regards
Rukmini
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Comment by Susanne Lucie BAUER on July 18, 2016 at 13:32
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Thank You dear Ranjany, point 5.1 - 5.7 are most instructive! This helps to specify gender relevance in evaluations, sometimes put into question by team leaders who apparently have little information or interest in specifying what gender concerns imply.
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