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Laura Hughston - Blog
Arnoux Mouafo Nop & Dimitri Tsona Zapzi - Article
Prof. Wangari Mwai and Prof. Catherine Ndungo - BOOK
- Understanding Gender and Identity Through The Gender Dictionary
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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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Locating gender equality in evaluations: Choosing pathways
Since the popularity emergence of gender and development approach in the late 1980s, there have been debates on where and how to locate gender equality in evaluations.
At one end, most multi-lateral development banks do not have a separate evaluation criterion on gender equality. The focus is on relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability and (some impacts). Evaluation reports indicate that gender equality issues tend to be integrated into relevance, effectiveness, impacts and less into efficiency and sustainability and project/program performance.
On the other hand, UN agencies tend to have a separate criterion on gender equality, and bulk of gender analysis of outcomes, impact and project performance is in this section with varying integration in other evaluation criteria like relevance and effectiveness.
While proponents of both sides argue that their approach is appropriate, the choice of gender equality as an exclusive evaluation criterion must depend on the mandate of the organization. If the mandate includes gender equality, it makes sense to have gender equality a separate criterion, and integrate it within other criteria. However, if the mandate of the organization does not include gender equality, it makes sense to integrate gender equality into criteria of relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability, and impact.
Either way, gender equality issues to be explored have expanded since the 1990s. The major shifts that needed to be taken in evaluations are
· Addressing gender and intersectional discrimination: It is not adequate if evaluations explore outcomes for, and impact on, women vis-a-vis men, but impact on different groups of marginalized women (migrant, indigenous, Dalits, disabled, ethnic religious minorities etc.) and vis-a-vis dominant men. The discussion must go beyond social inclusion, and to address unique forms of discrimination faced by women of above groups
· Addressing gender transformation: Gender equality can be achieved sustained only when gender norms, power and institutions change. Assessing changes in these aspects is critical, and demands dialogue with non-members, non-project stakeholders as well. Further some norms are easier to change while others are sticky (including intersectional ones), this also must be assessed
· Gender beyond binary Evaluations, like planning and monitoring, have historically looked at gender as binary. This has excluded people of diverse sexual orientation and gender identities. It is important to assess how far the project design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation look at gender beyond family
· Gender/social transformation methodologies: The evaluation theory of change and evaluation matrix should raise questions around gender equality, transformation, and intersectionality Evaluation frameworks and methods that are gender/socially transformative and look beyond binary should be adopted. This includes using the change matrix, social relations framework, social equality assessment tool for analysis and other frameworks. Sampling and methods should address gender/intersectional concerns.
· Reports should include conclusions and recommendations around gender transformation Evaluations should ideally offer conclusions on performance on gender/social transformation, and ways forward to address shortcomings.
Accountability to marginalized women: Findings, conclusions should be taken back to women from marginalized groups for inputs and validation, and not just to project holders and government.
Evaluations are political and reflect gender and other hierarchies, while challenging them. To be aware of this at every stage of evaluation is important
Cross posted from: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/locating-gender-equality-evaluations...
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