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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:
📍 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.
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Equity Focused Evaluation: Notes from Evaluation Conclave Kathmandu (26th February to 1st March, 2013)
Equity focused evaluation
Marco Segone, Michael Bamberger, and Urs Nagel
What does equity mean?
The concept of equity is based on notions of fairness and justice, and refers to equitable outcomes. It needs to be distinguished from equally of opportunity.
Why is equity important?
The concept of equity is important due to several factors:
- Inequity constitutes a violation of human rights
- Has a positive impact in reducing poverty
- Equity may have a positive impact on economic growth
- Leads to a socially fair and democratic society
- It hampers the equitable achievements of human development and MDGs
What is equity focused evaluation
An Equity-focused evaluation comprises of an assessment of the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability of policies, programmes and projects on equitable development results. We will look at national average if we did a traditional evaluation. In the case of equity focused evaluation, we would disaggregate the data across richest and poorest or other aspects of inequities and determine if inequities have reduced.
How to manage equity focused evaluations
- Preparing for the equity focused evaluation
- Preparing TOR
- Designing the evaluation
- Collecting analysing evidence
- Arriving at findings, conclusions and recommendations
- Utilising of recommendations
Preparing for the equity focused evaluation (efa)
- Determine the evaluability of the interventions’ equity dimensions
- Identifying evaluation stakeholder’s including worst off
- Identifying intended use by intended users
- Ensuring appropriate budget
- Identifying potential challenges in promoting and implementing equity focused evaluation
- Doing a SWOT of the equity focused evaluation
Special challenges for evaluating equity
- Lack of disaggregated data
- Many outcomes are sensitive or difficult to identify and measure (violence)
- Unanticipated outcomes
- Complex processes of behavioural change
- Equity evaluation requires new methodologies
- Findings can be threatening
Preparing the TOR
- Defining the scope and purpose of the evaluation
- Framing evaluation questions focusing on equity rather than just impact on poor
- Selecting technically strong and culturally sensitive evaluation team
Designing the evaluation
- Evolving a theory of change
- Attribution (alone) and contribution (along with others) analysis
- Social exclusion analysis
- Gender analysis
- Systems analysis
- Bottleneck analysis
Theory of change
- Clearly defines intended outcomes/impact
- Reach consensus among stakeholders
- Explains mechanisms and processes through which outcomes achieved
- Identifies key assumptions
- Contextual analysis
- Identification of unanticipated outcomes
Systems analysis
- Programs are embedded in existing social systems with historical traditions and linkages amongst stakeholders
- Different stakeholders have different perspectives on the program
- Boundaries can be open or closed
- New interventions cause contradictions and conflicts
- Outcomes determined are by how conflicts are resolved
Bottleneck supply and demand framework
Supply side
- Coverage
- budgets
- Humanpower resources
Contextual factors
- Economic
- Political
- Institutional
- Environmental
- Administrative and legal
Demand side:
- Knowledge, attitudes and practice of vulnerable group
- Community ownership
- Cultural acceptable services
- Culturally sensitive staff
- Distance
- Cost of travel for availing services
- Available transport and fees
- Poverty
- Time
Appropriate Evaluation design for equity focused evaluations
Experimental design
- Experimental design (choose control group)
- Quasi experimental design (before and after comparison)
Non experimental designs
- Interrupted time series
- Case study analysis - multiple case analysis (more systematic)and single/few case studies
- Longitudinal analysis
- Key informant interviews
- Participant observation
- Participatory group methods
- PRA
- Most significant changes
Equity outcome indicators
- Human development index
- Inequality adjusted human development index
- Gender development index
- Gender empowerment measure
- Income distribution by quintile groups
- Public expenditure incidence analysis
- Access to public services by quintile
Select the appropriate measurements tools
- Supply side- project documents, public expenditure surveys
- Demand side- KAP assessment, case studies, observations, key informants, FGDs
- Contextual services- diagnostic studies, rapid surveys, secondary data,
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