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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
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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:
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📍 Timor-Leste
📍 Fiji
📍 Samoa
📍 Tonga
📍 Indonesia
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and across the wider Pacific region.
We welcome expertise in:
✓ Research, Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning
✓ Gender Equality & Social Inclusion
✓ Health & SRHR
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✓ 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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Making the transition from evaluations to knowledge on gender-transformation
In-spite of several decades of development, the progress has been limited in reducing gender based violence, gender gap in economy, and gender gap in political participation globally. Yet a lot of development programmes and projects focus on these issues, and several evaluations have been carried on 'gender integrated' and 'gender specific projects".
A key question is "Are evaluations creating to knowledge building on what works and what does not work with regard to reducing gender based violence, gender gap in economy and gender gap in political participation?" Not always, is the answer.
For one the programme/ project objectives may not focus on these goals, and hence thier evaluations do not.
Second evaluation findings/reports are not always in public domain. Several organizations want to share success and not failures, in particular if it is linked with getting funds for next cycle. At times the implementing organisation may be interested, but the funding agency may want sensitive information removed- if political context is repressive
Representatives of rights based implementing agencies - who are open to sharing- do not always get opportunity to attend national and international evaluation conferences or web based platforms, in particular if they do not know english. They require support to convert findings into journal based articles. Evaluation team is not normally paid to do the same and knowledge on what works in bridging these gaps falls between the lines.
What about taking it downstream? Rarely is there budget for taking forward findings to federations of marginalised women's groups, youth groups etc , and discussing ways forwards. An opportunity for putting pressure on state from below is lost.
Funds should be available to bridge these gaps- for gender transformative evaluations are for addressing gender gaps, learning and not just to give support to access funds.
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Comment by Ranjani K.Murthy on September 28, 2018 at 11:14
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Dear Rituu
Thanks for your comment. I do agree that some evaluations are fault finding exercises- but not all. Everybody has to be open to learnings.
UN Women's compilation is good. I would like to additionally see an analysis on what was worked and not worked in each of its priority areas
1. Women’s leadership and
political participation
2 Women economic
empowerment
3 Ending violence
against women
4 Gender Peace, security and
humanitarian action
5 Gender National planning
and budgeting
6 Gender, Global norms,
policies and standardsBest
Ranjani
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Comment by Rituu B Nanda on September 27, 2018 at 1:11
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Dear Ranjani, you raise critical issues which are very important to discuss. Thank you.
Here are thoughts from my experience:-)
Evaluations are seen as fault finding exercises. The 'learn' in MEL is not given importance. People fear evaluations. If we create safe, learning spaces where people can share what went well and what did not particularly from gender and equity lens? For this gender and equity has to be a way of life and work.
And this will lead to the deeper question related to communities iThe first step is to bring critical thinking in communities if we want to address the context.
Meanwhile what do you think of this compilation by UN Women I find this a good compilation. What do you think http://www.unwomen.org/-/media/headquarters/attachments/sections/li...
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