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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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Equity, SDG indicators and systems thinking
In this blog I would like to use parts of the Rajagopalan’s (2015) Immersive Systemic Knowing framework. He distinguishes between four ways of knowing: being, cognition, doing and learning. Being refers to ways of living, existing and relating with others and environment which is shaped by culture and history. Cognition is the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses. Doing refers to activities in which one engages. Learning refers to not only knowledge, but also attitudes and skills through doing, study, experiences
Figure 1: Ways of Knowing
Action
Cognition Learning
Being
Source: Rajagopalan, 2015
What are the implications of this framework for developing indicators related to gender and equity?
A first lesson is that there can be progress towards 17 SDG and 169 targets only when changes take place in all these four ways of ‘knowing’.
For example, one of the SDG Goal 1 target (1.1) is “By 2030, eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, currently measured as people living on less than $1.25 a day”. A ‘being’ indicator is “50% of population 18-60 years believe that poverty is not due to poor people’s ‘karma’ (results of deeds done in previous birth) but their lack of access to resources or unequal access to resources. As long as government officials and well to do people believe due to their culture that poverty is due to “karma” it is difficult to achieve to reduce poverty.
An example on the need for attention to ‘cognition’ path to knowledge is illustrated with Target 5.2 namely “eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation”. An cognitive indicator could be that 100% of adolescent girls and women should be aware of important legislation on violence against women and girls and where to get justice. An indicator in the ‘learning’ aspect is that 100% of police officials and 50% of women and adolescent girls have developed skills in filing firsthand information reports related to violence against women. An indicator in the ‘doing’ sphere is that “100% of verdicts given are progressive towards women” and “100% of verdicts are implemented”. Thus the ambitious target set in SDG requires ambitious targets in each of these knowledge spheres: being[1], cognition, learning and action
While changes are required in all four domains of knowing, where maximum change is required is with regard to ‘being’. The positive aspects of being in each culture have to be preserved. At the same time negative aspects have to transformed. For example, an indicator that all government record and preserve indigenous knowledge systems by 2030 could be included. An indicator on whether financial compensation to women who are looking after elderly are in place could be considered (a cultural practice in parts of South Asia) .
On the other hand indicators on whether negative aspects are changing are essential –in particular
- Indicator on proportion of people18-49 years who believe that their nationality, gender, race, caste, religion is superior on inferior to others
- Indicator on proportion of people 18-49 years who feel there should be limit to acres of land and cars, and houses owned by a household; or a proportion between salary of top executive and that of a wage labourer
- Indicator on proportion of people 18-49 years who feel that people of different castes, classes, religion and gender identity should live in the same street and colony (rural and urban) and mix together
- Indicator on the ratio of percapita land and common property resources (weighted by quality) owned by a country vis a vis the least
There is a political shift required to identify indicators in four kinds of knowledge to attain SDG targets. The neoliberal paradigm and inequalities between and within countries (on the basis of race, caste, gender, religion, abilities, sexual orientation etc) have to be challenged.
Reference:
Rajagopal, Raghav, 2015, Immersive Systemic Knowing: Rational Analysis and Beyond, Draft Thesis submitted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Systems Sciences Centre for Systems Studies, Hull University Business School, United Kingdom
[1] For the 5.2 target to be met it is necessary (not enough) that 100% of women and men, police and judiciary do not believe that spouses/intimate partners have a right to hit them if they are not happy with their actions.
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