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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

  • 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

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Dialogue on Good Practices in Gender Responsive Evaluation: Asia Pacific Evaluation association, Eval Gender+ and UN women

Last year the global community marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women and adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995). In the context of this milestone and the asymmetrical gendered impact of the COVID-19 pandemic- the virtual “Dialogue on Good Practices in Gender Responsive Evaluation was organised by the Asia Pacific Evaluation association, Eval Gender+ and UN Women.  to learn about the latest contributions applying a gender equality lens to evaluation

The webinar was well-received and saw the participation of more than 100 evaluation practitioners and individuals from development organisations and academia. The dialogue presented an overview of gender-responsive and feminist evaluation frameworks, while also sharing real-time experiences of experts in the field of evaluation on the application of these frameworks in the region. The challenges, lessons learnt and recommendations on how to best apply gender responsive evaluation were also shared in a lively discussion.

  • The keynote speech was given by Sabrina Evangelista (Regional Evaluation Specialist, UN Women) who shared with the participants, the fundamentals of GRE, followed by highlighting good practices (IFAD, UNFPA and UN Women) in the field. The presentation was based on the Good Practices in Gender-Responsive document produced by UN Women Independent Evaluation Service with the generous support of the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation.
  • Rose Thompson Coon (Evaluation Specialist, UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia) elaborated on the aspects of adaptation of a feminist evaluation framework in the evaluation on the gender effectiveness of the UNICEF South Asia COVID response. An unbiased review of what has and has not worked for the organization in using a feminist approach and in operationalizing a gender scale was presented, along with the acquired experiences of what was learnt from this process.
  • Dolgion Aldar (Coordinator, Mongolian Evaluation Network and Consultant, UNDP Timor-Leste) shared her recent experience in conducting the socio-economic impact assessment of COVID-19 in Timor-Leste using a gender lens. It was evident from her presentation that the conduct of the study provided an assessment of the state of affairs in the country with respect to its response to COVID-19, with a focus on the analysis of gender differences at the individual and the household level.
  • Sushila C Nepali (Life member for Community of Evaluator Nepal, Member of South Asia) spoke on the challenges, gaps and ways forward of employing GRE in the context of Nepal. She gave vital insight into the need for conceptual clarity on this theme and emphasized the need for gender responsive approaches in the plans, projects and policies of a nation, whilst also underscoring the importance of institutionalizing this approach.
  • Akiko Yuge (Japan Evaluation Society, Professor, Hosei University, Japan) discussed the issues and challenges in gender responsive evaluations, speaking from a management perspective and from that of a development practitioner. She elaborated on the approaches employed by her in the past, as well as recommendations for the future, to counter the multiplicity of issues in incorporating a gender responsive approach in organizations and what interventions are necessary at the staff level to ensure this approach is followed and its positive results are sustained overtime.

 

Considering only 27% of the audience responded in the affirmative to an in-meeting poll asking them if they have applied a Gender Responsive Framework for an evaluation in the past 2 years; the webinar, through the informed wisdom of the speakers, provided important insight on how to use gender analytical frameworks, the resources that can provide valuable learning on this theme as well as the issues, challenges and recommendations for implementation of GRE on the field. The webinar concluded with a participatory Q&A session with the speakers, ensuring that the attendees get the opportunity to engage in a one-on-one dialogue with pioneers in the field of evaluation.

The webinar was brief yet comprehensive, covering a variety of topics- from taking a closer look at granular data for employing GRE frameworks in nations to advocating for changes needed at the institutional and policy-making level for a more gender integrative approach in the evaluation process. The first in a series of such webinars, its aim was to inspire practitioners to use a feminist evaluation lens, with the endeavour to produce transformative change as envisioned in the 2030 agenda for Sustainable Development.

 

 

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Comment by Margerit Roger on July 12, 2021 at 3:32

This was a great webinar. Thanks!

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