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Prof. Wangari Mwai and Prof. Catherine Ndungo - BOOK
- Understanding Gender and Identity Through The Gender Dictionary
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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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📍 Solomon Islands
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📍 Timor-Leste
📍 Fiji
📍 Samoa
📍 Tonga
📍 Indonesia
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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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Developmental Evaluation is like dating!
(I attended a short course on Developmental Evaluation facilitated by Carolyn Camman and Rita Fierro and hosted by Amy Lenzo and Rowan Simonsen from Beehive Productions and excellent graphic visualisation during the course. The course provided insights on how to evaluate in complexity and apply developmental evaluation in one's practice.)
When to use Developmental Evaluation?
Developmental Evaluation is like dating, described Michael Patton in a lighter vein during a video interview in the course. When a couple starts dating, it is hard to say how the relationship will progress and what will be the outcome. Whether there will be a second date, the couple will live together and eventually memory-hard to predict. This sets the stage for the question when to use Developmental Evaluation- when outcomes are unpredictable, when we work in highly unstable, complex, uncertain and dynamic environments. When you chart your way as you go, its important to track the progress and take corrective measures. Developmental Evaluation is suitable in these kinds of projects/programmes. Patton noted that when process and outcomes are enmeshed with each other. For instance, social capital is at the core of healthy communities; and you get social capital by building healthy social relationships but building the healthy relationships is the social capital. They are not separate stages they are intertwined.
When not to use? When the project or programme is going smoothly when you are in control, set your goals , implement change is very much keeping the project goals in mind.
Definition- Thus Developmental evaluation “is grounded in systems thinking and supports innovation by collecting and analyzing real-time data in ways that lead to informed and ongoing decision making as part of the design, development, and implementation process.”
Difference between traditional evaluation and developmental evaluation Why the term- developmental evaluation? Why did Michael Patton coin it? You will have to do the course to know more! Note that it is different from Development evaluation which is a generic term for evaluations conducted in developing countries.
Source: https://www.betterevaluation.org/en/plan/approach/developmental_eva...
What methods or tools to use?
A developmental evaluation can use any kind of data and any kind of focus ( for eg outcome or process). However real time inputs and feedback are essential as the situation changes quickly. Therefore evaluation team works closely with implementation team and hence, the next point is key.
Importance of facilitation and reflexivity
Both the course facilitators Rita and Carolyn underlined that as Developmental is out of the alternative paradigm in a rapidly changing world, we have to regularly be adaptive. Therefore facilitation skills are critical in facilitating Developmental evaluation. DE involves building trust and relationships. The evaluation team as well as the programme participants need to constantly reflect on what is going on, make meaning out of it and take action accordingly.
Pearls from the workshop ( by the Facilitators)
-emergence is a process, order emerging out of chaos (Peggy Holman), staying in the glump
-don’t throw away evidence too soon
-sensing is a process of deepening your learning
-developmental evaluation means being willing to learn several things at the same time (multi-taskers heaven)
- TRACKING LEARNING NOT OUTCOMES
To conclude- DE is a like a red flower!
I conclude with a tweet from Phd scholar Miriam Lo in response to a red flower shared by Rakesh Mohan ( a very experienced evaluator). develop #changes in #uncertain #environments. :)To me, this #redflower represents the #main characteristics of a #developmental #eval: it's living with #naturalresources and it can assist #context innovators ( #bees, #butterflies, #humans
Resource
Patton, M. Q. (2010) Developmental Evaluation. Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use. Guilford Press, New York. Retrieved via http://tei.gwu.edu/courses_approaches.htm#developmental_evaluation
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