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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.
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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
How can we Strengthen National Evaluation Systems”?
How can we Strengthen National Evaluation Systems”? The Fall 2013 edition of Evaluation Matters provides some answers
‘National evaluation capacity development’ builds on the concept that results-based monitoring and evaluation is a public management tool that yields information that can be used to better manage policies, programmes and projects; demonstrate progress on national development goals to citizens and other stakeholders, such as the international donor community; and, in the process, ultimately serve as a key accountability tool. Thus, national evaluation systems need to be thought of more than simply in bureaucratic terms.
National ownership implies a specific cultural, social and political context. The driver for establishing a national evaluation (or M&E) system ought to be good governance. This could be associated with broader public sector modernization initiatives, the proactive introduction of a results-based management framework for the public sector and/or some other form of public sector reform. Establishing an M&E system could be triggered by political change; or it could be encouraged by the actions and support of international agencies and donors such as the African Development Bank, the United Nations Development Program or the World Bank.
If a national evaluation system is to be owned by a country, it needs to be linked to the national development plan and integrated into the operations and culture of government institutions and ministries. However, for it to be sustainable, governments must believe in the utility of the national evaluation system and understand its benefits. They must also own the system. National evaluation systems should no longer be donor- driven; they should be nationally owned.
The Fall edition of evaluation matters offers interesting perspectives from several key players from Africa and from major donor organizations on this very important topic: http://operationsevaluation.afdb.org/en/evaluations-publications/ev...
Kenya National Evaluation week and declaration of EvalYear
Kenya joining the 2015 EvalYear campaign during the National M&E Week (participants standing when and after making the Declaration) . Some of the key highlights are as follows:
1.It is an annual event in its 2nd year and was co-organised by the government's M&E Directorate, Ministry of Planning in collaboration with ESK and other development partners
2.It brought together between 300-350 people daily for 4 days
3.As part of the advocacy efforts around promoting the 2015 EvalYear, I made a brief presentation on the campaign in one of the sessions ,followed by the participant's Declaration of the same
4.The event was officially presided over by the Cabinet Minister in charge of Devolution and Planning. Developmement Partners representatives including the World Bank, UNDP, UNICEF, UN Women, AGRA, GIZ, SIDA and the universities also made presentations within the 4 days
5.The event was also attended regionally by representatives from Ethiopia (through the EvalPartners Peer to Peer initiative), Uganda, Zambia, Benin and Rwanda. They joined in the Declaration and each of the countries presented their Case Studies on M&E in panel discussions .
6.A key note address on the South African case was also presented by the Director DPME, Dr.Sean Phillips in one of the days.
7.M&E training workshops as part of capacity strengthening efforts for ESK members , government staff and other participants at national and devolved levels were conducted on day one.
Jennifer Mutua Reports from Kenya
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