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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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and across the wider Pacific region.
We welcome expertise in:
✓ Research, Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning
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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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Report on 'Mainstreaming, acceleration and policy support (MAPs) for SDGs: Gender baseline analysis against SDGs in Mongolia
Myself and my colleagues at the Independent Research Institute of Mongolia conducted an assessment on SDG readiness and data availability in Mongolia, funded by UNDP. We tried to provide recommendations on how data gaps can be filled out by the government, NGOs and donors.
This report is interesting as it gives an overall picture of the case of Mongolia - in terms of evaluation and sex-disaggregate data. We found that mostly qualitative data was missing and data collection mechanism was not in place to report on SDG progress.
The objectives of the assessment were threefold:
- Review the existing SDG assessment frameworks including the availability of sex-disaggregated baseline data and identify gaps in sex-disaggregated data under SDG 1, 5, 8, 10, 11, 13 and 16.
- Determine the baseline data and identify more specific needs for capacity building and data collection methodologies under the selected SDGs.
- Help identify potential areas for further strengthening Mongolia’s monitoring, reporting and accountability to SDGs using the Mainstreaming, Acceleration and Policy Support (MAPS) approach.
As a result, the availability and gaps of sex-disaggregated baseline data under 87 indicators of 39 targets within 7 SDGs were identified in Chapter 2. The chapter discusses in detail the data availability, data gaps and assessment of quality of data related to the selected SDG indicators using six criteria – Timeliness; Comparability; Adequacy of resources; Technology; Accessibility and Usability of Data. The chapter includes specific recommendations on filling the data gaps and determining the indicators. It was found that there were discrepancies between the global definitions and key terms used within the indicators against Mongolian ones. Furthermore, study shows that data availability of the SDGs varied depending on the goals but in general more disaggregation was needed for most indicators. The largest gap existed in the analysis and use of data.
Chapter 3 of the report employs MAPS approach in assessing the existing government monitoring and accountability mechanisms. It suggests that the enabling environment for reporting, data collection and management and gender sensitive policies relating to SDGs are partly in place in Mongolia. Nonetheless the ongoing government re-structuring, change of policy directions and instability in terms of fiscal and human resources present more challenges for reporting SDGs, follow-up and data management. Also, a lack of law enforcement presents challenges in effective accountability mechanisms. The chapter also provides recommendations to improve national monitoring and accountability mechanisms; alignment and mainstreaming of SDGs into national development plans; and partnership and engagement of non-government stakeholders.
It should be noted that this report is complemented by a separate Excel Matrix which contains more technical and detailed statistical and in-depth analysis of the indicators. The Excel Matrix is intended for those who will determine and use the indicators as well as those who will produce data necessary to report on those indicators. Also this assessment can be used as a model framework to assess the indicators related to the remaining SDGs.
http://www.mn.undp.org/content/mongolia/en/home/library/poverty/MAI...
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Comment by Svetlana Negroustoueva on August 17, 2016 at 7:50
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Dear Dolgion, thank you for sharing. I found the report very informative and certainly an exemplary document to build future work on. I too am interested in the matrix.
Regards,
Svetlana
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Comment by Patrick Rugakingira on August 16, 2016 at 17:07 -
i very interested on Excel Matrix analysis, i hope to find more details on it.
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