Monthly Corner
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
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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.
Events
Vacancies
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
Evaluation and value for money
Please see my LinkedIn post for a 30 minute presentation on evaluation and value for money, featuring the MUVA female economic empowerment program and an approach to VFM assessment that combines strengths of evaluative reasoning and economics.
Yesterday I was scheduled to give a guest lecture at Auckland Uni, but all teaching has gone online for the moment. So I pre-recorded the lecture on Zoom. There’s a first time for everything! Here’s a 30-minute video of the presentation - Evaluation and Value for Money: https://lnkd.in/fgfmAEm And here’s an annotated copy of the slides, for those who prefer to read: https://lnkd.in/fg2tU24 Since a few evaluation conferences have already been postponed to next year, perhaps this is a way we can share ideas while we’re working from home?
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Comment by Julian King on May 4, 2020 at 13:32 -
Hi Rituu,
I think these terms 'stakeholders, rights-holders and end-users' don't have a universal definition. To me, the terms overlap but I felt it was important to mention them all. By stakeholder, I mean any person/group with an interest in the program or policy - e.g. those who are supposed to benefit from it, those who deliver it, those funding it, those who designed it, etc.
End-users and rights-holders are particular types of stakeholder. End-users are those who will use the evaluation (I'm borrowing the term from Michael Quinn Patton's Utilization-Focused Evaluation). End-users could be any of the above-mentioned stakeholders but often they are the donor or decision-making body. By rights-holders, I mean people who are affected by the policy or program, and to whom the policy, program, and evaluation have a duty of care (https://socialprotection-humanrights.org/key-issues/universality-of...).
Of course, we don't have a room big enough make sense of the evidence with literally all of these people, but the principle I'm suggesting is that we should seek an appropriate level of dialogue and input so that their perspectives and wisdom have a bearing on how the evaluation is conducted and how findings are understood. In the end it's about power - with the evaluator having a responsibility to ensure the evaluation doesn't reinforce existing disparities by privileging one perspective over others.
Best,
Julian
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Comment by Rituu B Nanda on May 4, 2020 at 13:01
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Hi Julian,
Thanks for sharing your work.
- You mention- "to make sense of the evidence with stakeholders, rights-holders and end-users." Do you do this through a workshop?
- When we work with more marginalized groups we need to invest more time and effort, I was wondering how would you incorporate this in VFM?
In case its possible please would you elaborate on this. It will be wonderful to learn from you.
Warmly,
Rituu
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