A few takeaways on day 3 of Eval week & photo of the day

[Rituu B Nanda]

Photo of the day- I was able to catch on camera- Marco Segone, A K Shiva Kumar and Yamini Atmavilas in front of the Gender and Evaluation community poster:-)

Key learnings

Dr Rajib Nandi’s presentation on India Feminist Evaluation groups learning over the past two year evoked many questions like 

What is the difference between feminist and gender-responsive and equity focused evaluation?The word evaluator sounds like external policing. What about community?

Vimala Ramachandran, National University of Educational Planning and Administration

She listed equity issues she came across during meta evaluation of India's flagship programme for achievement of Universalization of Elementary Education. This will give you an idea of how to use gender and equity lens in evaluation.Gender is equated with girls and boys have been excluded from the conversation. The Joint review mission evaluations have been weak in analysis when it comes to various socio-economic factors such as occupation, family income, caste religion and education level of parents. Many girls schools do not offer science subjects.

Howard White from 3 ie mentioned types of bias in evaluation- selection bias, study bias (Having genuine mixed methods is a challenge), agency bias, respondent bias, Evaluator bias, Friends bias.

Marco Segone – Challenges to Gender and equity focused evaluations. Here are two slides from him. He also facilitated a discussion amongst participants. Will type them out and share with you.

 

[susmita mukherjee]

Thanks a lot Rituu. It was actually great to hear all the deliberations from all experts during the entire week. 

[Jindra Cekan, PhD]

I agree, many thanks for updating us and of course the EFE brings up uncomfortable issues. Yay!

[Rukmini Panda]

Thanks Rituu for all your good efforts to make us aware about the events, discourses etc.

[Maggie Schmeitz]

Sounds very interesting! I am looking forward to the presentations in full. Thanks so much for making us all over the world being able to share in this information.