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Evaluation of UN Women’s Work on the Care Economy in East and Southern Africa 

A regional study of gender equality observatories in West and Central Africa, carried out by Claudy Vouhé for UN Women

Sources: UN Women

This regional study offers an inventory and analysis of the legal framework of gender observatories, their attributions, functions and missions. It is based on exchanges with 21 countries, in particular the eleven countries that have created observatories. It compares the internal organisation and budgets of the observatories between countries, looks at operational practices, in particular the degree of involvement in the collection and use of data, and identifies obstacles and good practices in terms of influencing pro-gender equality public policies. Finally, the study draws up a list of strategic recommendations intended for observatories, supervisory bodies and technical and financial partners.

MSSRF Publication - November 2025 - Shared by Rajalakshmi

Ritu Dewan - EPW editorial  comment on Labour Codes

Eniola Adeyemi Articles on Medium Journal, 2025

An analysis of the “soft life” conversation as it emerges on social media, unpacking how aspirations for ease and rest intersect with broader socio-economic structures, gendered labour expectations, and notions of dignity and justice

Tara Prasad Gnyawali Article - 2025

This article focused on the story of community living in a wildlife corridor that links India and Nepal, namely the Khata Corridor, which bridges Bardiya National Park of Nepal and Katarnia Wildlife Sanctuary of Uttar Pradesh, India.
This article revealed how the wildlife mobility in the corridor affects community livelihoods, mobility, and social inclusion, with a sense of differential impacts on farming and marginalised communities.

Lesedi Senamele Matlala - Recent Article in Evaluation Journal, 2025

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Vacancy | GxD hub, LEAD/IFMR | Research Manager

Hiring a Research Manager to join us at the Gender x Digital (GxD) Hub at LEAD at Krea University, Delhi.

As a Research Manager, you will lead and shape rigorous evidence generation at the intersection of gender, AI, and digital systems, informing more inclusive digital policies and platforms in India. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys geeking out over measurement challenges, causal questions, and the nuances of designing evaluations that answer what works, for whom, and why. We welcome applications from researchers with strong mixed-methods expertise, experience designing theory or experiment based evaluations, and a deep commitment to gender equality and digital inclusion.

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 • 4+ years of experience in evaluation and applied research
 • Ability to manage data quality, lead statistical analysis, and translate findings into clear, compelling reports and briefs
 • Strong interest in gender equality, livelihoods, and digital inclusion
 • Comfort with ambiguity and a fast-paced environment, as the ecosystem evolves and pivots to new areas of inquiry
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Leave No One Behind: Evaluating the SDGs - NY March 2016

With the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) ahead of us, the evaluation community has started thinking about what role evaluation will play to help achieve this commitment. How will we assess what works and what doesn’t? What tools do we need to develop right now to be prepared for evaluating policies geared towards achieving the SDGs?  How can we ensure that we are leaving no one behind when we evaluate progress against the SDGs? Under the leadership of the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) of UN Women, EvalGender+ and United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG) together with EvalPartners, Global Parliamentarians Forum for Evaluation, International Organization for Cooperation in Evaluation (IOCE), United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Swiss Development Cooperation, CONEVAL Mexico, the Government of Sri Lanka and the Government of Tunisia, the evaluation community gathered from 15 to 17 March 2016  in New York to reflect on how to evaluate the SDGs with an equity-focused and gender-responsive lens.

The gathering consisted of a high-level event and a technical workshop.  The high-level event featured delegates from member states, international organizations and parliamentarians and addressed strategies for building an enabling environment to evaluate the SDGs with equity-focused and gender-responsive lens

The technical workshop looked into the relevance of the new metrics and agreed indicators, the complexity of SDGs and the power of partnerships, strategies to strengthen gender responsiveness of national evaluation systems, as well as the demand for and use of evaluation with an equity-focused and gender-responsive lens in policymaking.

Presentations and recording of the event available at http://mymande.org/evalgender/evaluating-sdgs-equity-focused-and-ge...

The key take away messages from the discussions include:

  • New metrics for assessing SDGs should include a transformative lens to make sure we include voices of women and the most vulnerable. Evaluation is a tool to grasp power relations and undercover gender norms. Data disaggregation is not enough if we want to ensure “no one is left behind”. There is a need for statistics departments to work jointly with evaluators. Responsibility relies on joint work among statisticians, evaluators, policymakers and parliamentarians.
  • The complexity of the SDGs showcases a new reality for evaluation. To address this complexity, evaluation will need to look into boundaries, perspectives and interactions. This includes devising new roles for evaluators as facilitators, expanding the evidence universe, and making sure the voices of the most vulnerable are heard.
  • Parliamentarians have a very important role to play as promoters of gender-responsive evaluation for the SDGs. They are able to build the demand for gender-responsive evaluation, and link policymakers to evaluations in order to strengthen accountability.

Attendees of the event made a commitment to moving forward in evaluating the SDGs with a more equity-focused and gender-responsive lens by increasing collaboration. Evaluators should drive the invitation to re-frame the SDG agenda for the next 15 years with an emphasis on transformative change. There is a need to focus on who is being left out and identify ways of bringing them in, rather than staying with aggregate measures to understand the realities. Evaluators should become activists and not just experts, and work together with policymakers to ensure evidence is brought back to the driver’s seat.

The event marked the culmination of the multi-stakeholders dialogue that included an on-line consultation launched in January 2016 that aimed at helping strengthen monitoring and evaluations systems to assess SDGs with an equity-focused and gender-responsive lens.

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Comment by ndeye fatou diop on April 20, 2016 at 22:12

thanks florencia for sharing tis relevant contribution. hope we'll continue our participative approach and monitor process and results of our involvement. 

Comment by Manas Bhattacharyya on April 20, 2016 at 18:39

Thank you very much Florencia for sharing the brief from the event and the presentations. I am sure the evaluation communities everywhere will now look forward to the next steps: how we can implement the discussions and decisions from the event to strengthen M & E systems

 

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