Monthly Corner
IDH Publication, 2026
Gender-Based Violence (GBV) is not just a social issue, it’s a systemic challenge that undermines agricultural value chains.
In rural and isolated areas, GBV threatens women’s safety, limits their economic participation, and weakens food security. When women cannot work safely, entire communities lose resilience, and businesses lose productivity. Climate resilience strategies that overlook gendered risks leave communities exposed and women vulnerable.
Ending GBV is essential for building equitable, sustainable, and climate-resilient agri-food systems; and it’s not only a human rights imperative, but also central to climate adaptation and economic stability.
The good news? Solutions work. Programs like the Women’s Safety Accelerator Fund (WSAF) demonstrate that addressing GBV can enhance productivity and strengthen workforce morale and brand reputation. Safe, inclusive workplaces aren’t just good ethics, they’re smart business.
Gurmeet Kaur Articles
Luc Barriere-Constantin Article
This article draws on the experience gained by The Constellation over the past 20 years. It is also a proposal for a new M&E and Learning framework to be adopted and adapted in future projects of all community-focused organisations.
Devaka K.C. Article
Sudeshna Sengupta Chapter in the book "Dialogues on Development edited by Prof Arash Faizli and Prof Amitabh Kundu."
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.
Rescuing diversity from the gender trap!
Often I am asked to plan, train or evaluate programs from a gender lens. The organisation’s gender policy and guidelines are given to me, and I am asked to keep these in mind while carrying out my tasks. Unfortunately, many policies and guidelines (often generated by donors) focus on gender relations in isolation, and do not take into account that they interlock with other power relations like race, caste, class, abilities, sexual orientation or gender identity to marginalise women.
Further, there are some indicators on which inequalities based on some other identity are starker than gender differences. For example, ethnic and caste differences in access to education are starker than gender differences. Boys from fishing communities in coastal Tamil Nadu fare worse than girls with regard to access to education, as they have to go fishing with their fathers to support family livelihoods.
At the country level, catering to the donors, the government and smaller NGOs prepare baselines, plans, monitoring systems and end-lines which are ‘sex disaggregated’ but not disaggregated by the other variables. Some interventions in tribal areas in India assume, for example, that the dominant community women are the norm, for planning purposes, and that the women’s family will have land, that they can rest during pregnancy ‘if educated’, that they are totally powerless, etc. However, there may be other problems like the presence of early marriage.
At the international level, gender-specific planning/monitoring/evaluation frameworks and the like take into account changing gender-related beliefs, norms, laws, policies, resources, etc.; but these are only possible to achieve after addressing laws, policies, and norms upholding racial or caste or homophobic-based values (March, et al, 1999). The UN decade for Women, separate MDG on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment, Beijing +20 processes, and gender planning, training & evaluations tools have created awareness on gender issues, but attention to a social relations perspective needs strengthening. Thus, attention to gender, equity and diversity is required for furthering well-being, rights, and a human revolution.
What are the ways forward to rescue gender equity and diversity from the gender trap?
- Include in Goal 5 of the Sustainable Development Goals specific targets which disaggregate ‘women’ and ‘men’ further.
- Alternatively, have a separate goal on equity which tracks reduction in income inequalities and religious inequalities, as well one inequality specific to each country.
- Evolve tools/framework for planning, monitoring and evaluation which address the intersection of gender with other social relations.
- Support not just national Gender Statistics but Gender and Equity/Diversity indicators and statistics.
- Evolve gender and equity/diversity training, planning and evaluation frameworks building upon Kabeer (1994), Murthy (2014).
- Include diverse groups of women in organisations and boards, with a bias towards the marginalised identities.
- Organise gender, equity and diversity trainings for the development community.
By Ranjani.K.Murthy rk_km2000@yahoo.com
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Reference
March, Candida; Smyth, Inés A.; Mukhopadhyay, Maitrayee (1999). A guide to gender-analysis frameworks. Oxfam.
Kabeer N, 1994 Reversed Realities Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought (1994) Verso, London, UK.
Murthy, 2015, Towards Socialist Feminist Theory of Change
Cross posted from http://www.comminit.com/global/content/rescuing-equity-and-diversit...!
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