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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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Gender Transformative Evaluation – More and more presence in the international arena
By Fabiola Amariles (REDWIM/RELAC); Rachel Sittoni & Florence Etta (AGDEN)
The 8th International Conference of the African Evaluation Association (AfrEA) held in Munyonyo Uganda from 27th to 31st March 2017 demonstrated once more that true development cannot be achieved in any society if gender equity and equality remain at the periphery of development action.
The conference focus on the Evaluation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provided a perfect entry point for discussions on the vital place and role of gendered evaluation practice for inclusive and sustainable development. Having a dedicated Gender Equality and Equity Focused strand at the conference was an indication that the global evaluation community is increasingly recognizing the need to find and analyze evidence about gender imbalances as they may impair development especially in the implementation of SDGs.
The presence of more than 600 evaluation practitioners and decision-makers from across the world and many sectors of society in the conference was an excellent environment for group and individual researchers and practitioners of Gender Transformative Evaluation to share their thoughts on and strategize on ways to increase their contributions to international development in a systematic, committed and coordinated way. There was a vibrant and growing gender and evaluation community present in the different sessions of the Conference to deepen on approaches, tools and cases to advance the field and face current development challenges.
Among the many workshops, panels and individual presentations made, we would like to highlight the two events that most reflected the presence of the Gender and Evaluation community:
The Africa Gender and Development Evaluators Network (AGDEN), UN Women, EvalGender+, UNICEF, African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD), and the Institute for Reproductive Health, Georgetown University (IRH) hosted one of the 20 conference strands, on Gender Equality and Equity Focused Evaluations. AGDEN acted as the official representative of EvalGender+ and UN Women coordinated the strand.
The strand provided a space for sharing evaluative evidence and experience in support of gender equality and equity in SDGs in Africa. It also showcased how evidence has been used to buttress and enhance evaluation capacity. There were seven sessions across all three days of the conference with contributions from Governments, Voluntary Organizations of Professional Evaluators (VOPEs), researchers, evaluation commissioners, academia and emerging evaluators and practitioners.
At a round table, chaired by Florence Etta on Day 2 of the conference, three excellent presentations made by Silvia Salinas-Mulder, Michele Tarsilla, Ph.D. & Anne Nathalie Manga-BADJI exhorted participants respectively to be:
a) Conscious of and cultivate competencies that will lead to gender responsive transformative evaluations;
b) Careful to manage the risks as they measure equity in the SDG era, especially to ‘mix statistical rigor with equity oriented techniques and approaches’;
c) Intentional and thoughtful in the practice of evaluation which is grounded in empirical theory but contextually relevant.
As if in answer to the charge by two of the presentations, Fabiola Amariles reported on an EvalPartners Peer-to-Peer (P2P) project whose goal is “Developing a Culturally Responsive Curriculum on Gender Transformative Evaluation based on best practices: A South to South Collaboration” by four VOPEs on three continents namely: REDWIM, CoE South Asia, AGDEN and RELAC. Sonal Zavery, from CoE SA and Cecilia Manyame from AGDEN complemented this report with partial results of the P2P project in their respective regions.
The EvalGender+ group managed to meet on the margins of the AfrEA conference bringing together members present at the conference. This brief meeting reinstated the group’s commitment to support countries, organizations and individuals’ efforts to consolidate an effective, inclusive and transparent M&E framework to evaluate SDGs with an equity focused and gender responsive lens.
The network brings together multi-level actors to increase policy uptake and to improve evaluation results making them relevant to the different contexts. Present members at the 8th AfrEA conference emphasized the need for EvalGender+ to systematize its work including documenting and co-operation with other interested partners for the community to effectively position itself as the leading voice in gender responsive evaluation.
As a result of this meeting, an “AfrEA statement on Gender, Equity & Evaluation” was created and presented at the final session of the Conference:
The EvalGender+ network is growing with membership. To increase our network and to further extend our reach in local communities, we are trying to identify members around the world to increase our influence. To join the network, please sign up at https://gendereval.ning.com/ and to become a member of the different task forces please visit https://gendereval.ning.com/profiles/blogs/join-evalgender-task-forces.
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Comment by Svetlana Negroustoueva on April 23, 2017 at 10:59
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Excellent piece, thank you, lets keep them coming.
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Comment by Awuor Ponge on April 23, 2017 at 6:59
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Good work, Team! Tanks for sharing. Even though I missed Kampala, I feel like I got everything now. Keep up the good work, and let us follow up on the action plans!
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Comment by Silvia Salinas Mulder on April 23, 2017 at 2:46
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Great job dear colleagues, thank you for sharing this so enriching experience...and see you very son!
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