Monthly Corner
Claudy Vouhé shared GRB in local authorities (French)
Gender-Responsive Budgeting (GRB) shows that the development of a budget and budgetary choices are powerful levers in terms of gender equality. We share our lessons learned in the field: a 5-step method, concrete examples (culture, sport, subsidies, public procurement, etc.) and keys to success. An operational work to objectify the impact of public policies and budgets and make RHL accessible.
Anuradha Kapoor Shared Swayam Recent Published Study
This exploratory study foregrounds the largely invisible issue of natal family violence (NFV) in India, exploring its forms, prevalence, and deep, long-term impacts on women's lives. It challenges the myth of the natal home as a safe space and centres survivor voices and lived experiences. The findings expose systemic silences and institutional barriers to justice. It offers vital insights for policy reform, feminist praxis, and deeper societal reflection.
Research Workshop on School Violence Prevention and Response - BLOG POST
Blog post summarizing key findings from each presentation and highlighting the outstanding research of all participants
Tara Prasad Gnyawali - Narrative
My flashback to working with wildlife-affected communities living in a biological transboundary corridor in Bardiya, Nepal, where I spent my golden 15 years. This story reflects changes that demonstrate how a community's tolerance extends to coexistence, and that is only due to the well-integrated planning of Ecotourism opportunities for the community.
Mehreen Farooq - BLOG
Events
Vacancies
- We’re Hiring: National Evaluation Consultant – Bangladesh
UN Women is recruiting a National Evaluation Consultant (Bangladesh) to support the interim evaluation of the Joint Regional EmPower Programme (Phase II).
This is a great opportunity to work closely with the Evaluation Team Leader and contribute to generating credible, gender-responsive evidence that informs decision-making and strengthens programme impact.
📍 Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh (home-based with travel to project locations)
📅 Apply by: 24 February 2026, 5:00 PM
🔗 Apply here: https://lnkd.in/gar4ciRr
If you are passionate about feminist evaluation, gender equality, and rigorous evidence that drives change (or know someone who is) please apply or share within your networks.
- Seeking Senior Analyst - IPE Global
About the job
IPE Global Ltd. is a multi-disciplinary development sector consulting firm offering a range of integrated, innovative and high-quality services across several sectors and practices. We offer end-to-end consulting and project implementation services in the areas of Social and Economic Empowerment, Education and Skill Development, Public Health, Nutrition, WASH, Urban and Infrastructure Development, Private Sector Development, among others.
Over the last 26 years, IPE Global has successfully implemented over 1,200 projects in more than 100 countries. The group is headquartered in New Delhi, India with five international offices in United Kingdom, Kenya, Ethiopia, Philippines and Bangladesh. We partner with multilateral, bilateral, governments, corporates and not-for-profit entities in anchoring development agenda for sustained and equitable growth. We strive to create an enabling environment for path-breaking social and policy reforms that contribute to sustainable development.
Role Overview
IPE Global is seeking a motivated Senior Analyst – Low Carbon Pathways to strengthen and grow its Climate Change and Sustainability practice. The role will contribute to business development, program management, research, and technical delivery across climate mitigation, carbon markets, and energy transition. This position provides exceptional exposure to global climate policy, finance, and technology, working with a team of high-performing professionals and in collaboration with donors, foundations, research institutions, and public agencies.
Plan for sail boats, not trains
I was privileged to be in a panel with Donna Mertens, Doug Reeler, Yves Altazin and Claudine Morierat at F3 E conference held on 16th and 17th October in Paris. For last 25 years, F3E has been coordinating a network of 85 organisations – French NGOs and public authorities. The focus has been on strengthening evaluation, research and other capacities of member organisations. I am not a French speaker so the event gave me a peek into the world of Francophone evaluators and development practitioners. I came back enriched with knowledge but it was far beyond this. I felt energised and rejuvenated listening to the work this network is doing...very relevant to today’s world.
Change is not linear...so how can evaluation respond to this challenge? Nele Blommestein’s presentation during the conference about Rachel Kleinfeld’s work from whom I have borrowed the title of the blog. The main take away from the conference comes from this title. Throughout the conference, speakers and participants discussed the challenge of effectively measuring programmes and policies as we operate in complex and dynamic environments. Measuring is tough because it’s political, chaotic and messy. Kleinfeld (2015) observes, "...development projects require engaging in the realms of policy, power, and politics. And, whether you are funding change, fomenting it, or opposing it, the nonlinear nature of this kind of reform can make it very hard to know whether you are on the right track, and how to measure whether you are achieving your goals.”
Jan Van Ongevalle, a speaker from Belgium, noted that we need to make more room for qualitative methodologies and not focus just on numbers. He added that when end and results are unpredictable, we need to adapt. One approach will not work. He noted:
- Four dimensions to measure complexities
- Build relations with all actors you are involved if you want to work on sustainable change
- System has to be learning about expected and unexpected change-
- Accountable to donors, horizontal and also to communities
- Need to have adaptive capacity
Donna Mertens, Professor Emeritus Gallaudet University, Independent Consultant from USA is deeply rooted in transformative change as she has taught in a university for deaf for several decades. She stressed on lens of intersectionality in evaluation by incorporating social, economic, and environmental justice. Cultural responsiveness, contextual analysis and mixed methods are key ingredients of transformative evaluation.
Yves Altazin, Director of Frères des hommes, Board member, F3E stressed that evaluative and reflexive tools as accelerators of change. He shared experience of experimenting with outcome mapping and Change oriented approaches. On similar lines, Nele from Netherlands spoke about combining Outcome harvesting with traditional evaluation methodologies
Doug Reeler, Social Facilitator, Community Development Resources Association (South Africa) urged for doing M&E differently - key learning practices to empower communities and foster social change and being more reflective.
My presentation was on gender transformative evaluation- definition and importance. I reflected on the degree and range of participation and not blindly use the term participation. I feel that ‘no one left behind’ will remain a slogan unless communities are seen as actors of evaluation and develop evaluative thinking and critical mindset. I shared an example of using Constellation’s community life competence process for engaging communities in self assessment and how it was a gender transformative process. Read my blog https://gendereval.ning.com/profiles/blogs/ownership-of-evaluation-...
On similar lines, in another presentation need was stressed to involve citizens in evaluation. In the current digital age when we are moving towards open, real time data, Citizens and communities have a key role in generating data and using existing data to guide their actions on existing challenges like climate change, growing fundamentalism creating exclusion and conflict etc. I made a presentation in Netherlands for WWF on community science https://gendereval.ning.com/profiles/blogs/communities-are-not-just...
What is heartening is that F3E's work is around gender transformative evaluation and they have been inter-weaving what they call change-oriented approaches like most significant Change, outcome harvesting etc with other M&E tools. F3E seems to be having a considerable influence as its members partner with organizations from other continents. At the same time, F3E has been able to get other key players like policymakers on board.
F3E is a network which is nurturing coalitions that inform the field of transformative evaluation. Follow F3E closely as it has much to offer to evaluation professionals around the globe. Armelle Barré from F3E even did a live gender review of the event!!
https://www.linkedin.com/company/f3e/
https://www.facebook.com/F3E-1674368429472217/
@F3E_asso
Cherry on the cake
We squeezed in an informal meet up of EvalGender+ on 17th Oct. Ian Davies kindly organised the meet up.
Reference
Kleinfeld, R. (n.d.). Improving Development Aid Design and Evaluation: Plan for Sailboats, Not Trains. Retrieved from https://carnegieendowment.org/2015/03/02/improving-development-aid-....
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Comment by Aurelie Viard Cretat on October 30, 2019 at 14:26
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Thanks Rituu for this nice sum up of the event. It was very inspiring to me to meet so many experienced practitioners from different background, and share this lovely dinner with all of you.
I was really interested about the Constellation approach you mentioned during your presentation, and will definitely dig a bit more on the subject! Indeed, we always talk about further involving the communities, but making them primary stakeholders and actors of the evaluation process is an on-going challenge that we all need to work on. Especially because we often work with strict ToRs that do not leave so much time nor space for creative approached. One thing - out of the many - I keep with me from all the discussions we had and the presentations I attended was the need for us, evaluators, to advocate to financial and technical partners so that they dedicate sufficient funds for evaluations, that will allow us to have enough time for developing and implementing creative and really participatory methodologies. And advocate towards NGOs so that they really involve all stakeholders in the drafting of the ToRs.
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