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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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About the job
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.
🔗 Register here: https://lnkd.in/eyF66S7H
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
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