Monthly Corner

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

Members

Be the advocates of evaluation!

(The quote is borrowed from Marco's address)

Key learnings

I got to learn from diverse group of participants – from the government, academia, NGOs, UN, researchers and evaluators:

 Marco’s presentation on gender and equity focused evaluation. He began his presentation  with power walk exercise. Provoked us to think how development can affect different population groups differently.

 Then he showed us a graph depicting the difference between traditional approach and gender responsive and equity-focused evaluation approach. While the traditional approach will conclude that as national average has improved (see the yellow line in the graph below). However the equity focused approach will come to a different conclusion and recommendations driving home the point how the richest and the poorest are affected by the same intervention and the gap between the rich and the poor has increased.

 He also spoke about systemic approach to capacity building with focus on building capacities of individuals, institutes and the national system. He drew our attention to Evalpartners work on advocacy strategy and advocacy toolkit for evaluations. He urged the evaluators to be the advocates of evaluation “Evaluation: an agent of change for the world we want.” I loved this!

 Other learnings

Sensitisation on evaluation is essential both within and outside the organization. Ratna Sudarshan cited the example of gender and evaluation community to illustrate the point how community of practice can support learning and sharing.

Rashim Agrawal- We need explicit plan not only on implementation of evaluation findings but also need to know who will the evaluators have a dialogue with on evaluation findings.

Berly Leach- spoke about evidence-informed policy making. We must remember Evaluation is a technical tool in a political process. Many factors compete with evidence for attention from policy makers.

Sunita Palat- Community perspective should be taken into account while developing projects. Evaluaiton of pilot projects will help in this case.

Dr Rao- Process indicators should not be ignored in evaluation.

I presented on using strength-based approach, community life competence, in evaluation.

Key moments:

  • Minister Shri Rao Inderjit Singh (Hon’ble Minister of State for Planning) inaugurated the event and Mr. Marco Segone Director - IEO, UN Women, Co-chair – UNEG, Co-chair – EvalPartners) delivered the keynote address.
  • Release of the compendiuum
  • Holding the torch:-) 

Photos: https://gendereval.ning.com/photo/albums/evalyear-celebrations-in-i...

Views: 334

Add a Comment

You need to be a member of Gender and Evaluation to add comments!

Join Gender and Evaluation

Comment by Rituu B Nanda on March 4, 2015 at 23:22

Hi Patricia, on your question on strength-based approach to evaluation, I have used it with different population groups in Asia. Here is an example 

Nandi, Rajib; Nanda, Rituu B and Jugran, Tanisha. Evaluation from inside out: The experience of using local knowledge and practices to evaluate a program for adolescent girls in India through the lens of gender and equity [online]. Evaluation Journal of Australasia, Vol. 15, No. 1, Mar 2015: 38-47. 

 

Comment by Ndriakita SOLONIONJANIRINA on January 20, 2015 at 10:51

“Evaluation: an agent of change for the world we want.”

"Evaluation is a technical tool in a political process."

I realy like these ! ,thanks for sharing, waiting for next session's !!!

Comment by Mridu Kamal on January 20, 2015 at 10:42

Thanks for sharing the key learnings from the first day.It was very useful.

Comment by Patricia Rogers on January 20, 2015 at 2:11

Thanks very much for sharing these key messages from Day One of EvalWeek in India.  Will you also be sharing your presentation on strengths-based life competence approach to evaluation?  We often fall into a deficit-focused approach to evaluation and it would be good to see an alternative.

© 2026   Created by Rituu B Nanda.   Powered by

Badges  |  Report an Issue  |  Terms of Service