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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.
Do we 'ever' learn?
I was fortunate to attend a session by Chris Collison, Knowledge Management specialist on learning. He was one of the speakers at Africa Evaluation Association Conference held recently in Yaounde, Cameroon. Here are some of the points Chris shared:
Individual learning happens naturally. When we move from individual learning to group of people learning collectively there is a big leak. Learning does not spread naturally from person to person. Moreover, learning decays over time when we try to document and codify our knowledge in a report. Label of lessons learned is unhelpful for us. It makes our learning static and passive; we lose the focus of learning and who is learning because we are paying more attention to results, which distracts from us from learning. Lessons learned are usually poorly taught, bullet points kill the learning, we don’t pay attention to who will later learn from our reports and documents.
Lessons lose their life when we capture them. Chris said that when we talk about something we are passionate about we are able to capture only 7% of our message in our document.
And then what do with these reports? We put them in archaic system they are hard to retrieve. And if they are found they are not very useful because we have not asked the right questions. Thus, we end up with imperfect learning. Lessons are filed but rarely accessed or applied; rarely accessed by next team; lessons get lost in too many steps.
Chris observed that biggest problem is not sharing but asking questions. There are many things which stops us- we are different or we don’t want to learn. Real men don’t ask directions, this may seem weakness. Why should I show my weakness; macho culture prevents people to ask . This stifles the demand for learning.
Another two interesting things Chris noted. Tall poppy syndrome is where those who, come out with new ideas are snapped and put down. This Chris said creates fear and prevents lessons being shared . Shrinking violet syndrome means lesson stay hidden amongst people due to false humility or lack of awareness that they have something valuable to contribute.
Getting Lessons learned right
We can work on our knowledge of garden said by Chris by peeling away the layers by asking multiple questions. We need to ask the right questions, why questions. We must keep the focus on the ‘customer ‘ i.e. learner of lessons learned. Chris said that people love stories. We should try to bring lessons to life with stories.
Thus, my take away was that learning does not happen automatically we need structures and processes for collective learning. Chris session raised a lot of discussion afterwards. I end with what a participant shared about learning. He works in a university where his department was trying to look for a particular document in the 20-year records. But they could not retrieve because the coding system was flawed. Thus, this 15-minute session from Chis stimulated and evoked many conversations.
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Comment by Ranjani K.Murthy on March 27, 2014 at 12:19
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Thanks Ritu for sharing this. I like the bit on 'stories' contributing to learning and the importance of collective "learning". We often train individuals and expect change to happen in groups and organisations. Ranjani
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