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.
Challenges to Gender Equality Integration in National Evaluations
I come from India. I would like to share some thought on some of my thoughts on barriers to integrating gender equality within national evaluation systems in my context When a government scheme is formulated by a Ministry, it is appraised by the Project Appraisal and Management Division of the Planning Commission. There is a standard guideline for Appraisal which looks at target group and area, scheme relevance, cost-effectiveness, budget available, institutional capacity, monitoring and evaluation systems, planning for sustainability. Depending on the sensitivity of the person heading the unit, gender and equity concerns get assessed. Most Ministries have to form a Results Framework Document (RFD) which outlines vision, mission, objectives, output, outcome and impact indicators, means of verification and assumptions. A study in process by Atmavilas (forthcoming) shows that gender specific RFDs refer to women, girls, education, cycles, income etc but rarely address strategic gender identities. Interlocking identities and exclusions are not accounted for. The non gender specific ones do not even do that. Another mechanism for evaluation is through the Independent Office of Evaluation. The guidelines of Independent office of Evaluations make no referenece to gender issues in evaluation design and analysis (Atmavilas, forthcoming). My own review of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme suggests a partial integration of gender and equality issues into evaluation. The focus of the evaluation included one criterion assessing participation of women and marginalised groups, receipt of equal wages and this was equated with women's empowerment. However the remaining 11 criteria of evaluation werre gender-social blind (Murthy, 2014). So what are the barriers? The barriers include: I) Need to strengthen gender and equity capacity within bureaucracy and organisations commissioned for evaluations or supporting forming RFDs ii) The presence of trained gender and equity focal point varies, and they are not placed high enough in Departments iii) People aware of gender and equity concerns are not necessarily experts on evaluations and quantitative methods, and the other way around iv) Gender and equity criteria need to be better integrated into evaluation guidelines- evaluation criteria, evaluation team, evaluation stakeholder, methodology, analysis and dissemination of findings Iv) Lack of a checklist of gender and equity indicators across sectors and schemes v) Lack of consultancies to engendering evaluation guidelines of Independent Office of Evaluations. vi) Courses on gender do not much emphasise M and E, and courses on evaluations do not emphasise gender and equity vii) Need for gender and equity expertise in designing RFDs is limited. Need to put gender and equity indicators there Source: Atmavilas, Y, forthcoming, State Evaluation and Accountability Mechanisms:Where do Gender and Equity Criteria Figure?, Indian Social Studies Trust, New Delhi Murthy, R.K, Meta-Evaluation of Government’s Evaluation Studies on Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act from a Gender lens, ISST, New Delhi
CROSS POSTED FROM: https://undp.unteamworks.org/ru/node/471570
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Comment by Ranjani K.Murthy on January 16, 2015 at 11:02
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Dear Rituu
Thanks so much. An unedited version was posted in unteamworks first!
Best
Ranjani
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Comment by Rituu B Nanda on January 15, 2015 at 19:44
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Thanks Ranjani. I have also shared this link in response to the discussion on challenges to gender and equity focused evaluation http://gendereval.ning.com/forum/topics/challenges-to-integrate-gen...
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