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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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Evaluations that make a difference: evaluations stories around the world
A post published in https://evaluationstories.wordpress.com/
Para leerlo en Español: https://albordedelcaos.com/
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Truth, naked and cold, had been turned away from every door in the village.
Her nakedness frightened the people. When Parable found her, she
was huddled in a corner, shivering and hungry. Taking pity on her, Parable
gathered her up and took her home. There, she dressed Truth in Story,
warmed her, and sent her out again. Clothed in Story, Truth knocked again
at the villagers’ doors and was readily welcomed into the people’s houses.
They invited her to eat at their table and to warm herself by the fire.
A group of evaluators from around the world received an EvalPartners Innovation Grant to collect stories that would help answer these questions.
The result was Evaluations that make a difference – a collection of eight evaluation stories from around the world which is one of the first pieces of systematic research looking at factors that contribute to high quality evaluations that are used by stakeholders to improve programs and improve people’s lives. This initiative collected stories about evaluations that made a difference, not only from the perspective of the evaluators but also from the commissioners and users. The stories in this collection tell powerful stories about the findings in the evaluations and the ways the evaluations contributed to the impact of the programs.
The first step was to define what was meant by evaluations that make a difference. Many evaluations have sound methodologies and, in some cases, get used to inform decisions and improve programs, organizations and policies (evaluation influence). However, this exploration went beyond that and looked at what evaluations can do to improve people’s lives (evaluation impact) and contributed to social betterment.
In addition to the eight stories about evaluations that have made a difference in people’s lives, this project teased out the “enabling factors” that contributed to their impact, highlighted for the benefit of evaluators and evaluation users who want to do more impactful evaluations.
- Give voice to the voiceless – all voices need to be heard, but those without power often go unheard
- Provide credible evidence based on excellent design and methodologies
- Use a positive approach emphasizing strengths, opportunities, aspirations and results
- Actively engage users & intended beneficiaries through a utilization-focused process that gets buy-in as the evaluation progresses
- Embed evaluation within the programme right from the start, if possible, in order to have base-line information and to promote evaluative thinking
- Sincerely care about the evaluation so that commissioners, users and evaluators are working together to ensure credible evidence
- Champion the evaluation – evaluators need to work with commissioners and users to help them understand how the evaluation can contribute to making decisions
- Focus on evaluation impact – from the beginning evaluators need to think about the potential effect of the evaluation on the program and program participants.
These factors were identified from the selected evaluation stories, which have been presented in this blog during the last months, both in English and French (and in Spanish in the blog Al Borde del Caos). Below you will find the eight evaluation stories:
#EvalStories 1:How an evaluation led to rapid change: Salvaging Sri...
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#EvalStories 2: Tumekataa kula mavi tena! We refuse to eat shit! #Eval
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#Eval Stories 3: Evaluation in action: The Milne Bay emergency phon...
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#Eval Stories 4: Positive Sisters: a transformative journey in the ...
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#EvalStories 5: Learning and earning: training that works in Kenya
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#EvalStories 6: The power of community-owned data -a First Nations ...
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#EvalStories 7: If you don’t ask, you won’t see it! The evaluation ...
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#EvalStories 8: Listening to the listeners – an #eval story in Nepal.
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In addition to these blog posts, the stories and their process of selection and construction are being presented at events and conferences evaluation. The closest is in Maastricht (Netherlands), at the 12th Conference of the European Evaluation Society. If you are around, you are very welcome to join us there on September 29th, 10:00 – 11:30!
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Comment by Rukmini Panda on September 6, 2016 at 10:52
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Thanks for sharing.
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Comment by Rituu B Nanda on September 5, 2016 at 23:03
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Hi Pablo, I have a question on the evaluation finding in Nepal. I quote here When the programme is in a local language, people feel a sense of ownership – they think it’s a programme for and by them. And they are right!’
How is the programme by the local People? I would like to probe this sense of ownership. Who can answer my question
This is the link to the story https://evaluationstories.wordpress.com/2016/06/23/evalstories-8-li...
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Excellent work! Thanks for sharing Pablo
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