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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."
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- 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)
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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.
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Summary: discussion on challenges to integrating gender into evaluation
Query: Challenges to integrate gender equality into evaluation (Cross posting of Gender and Evaluation community with National Evaluation Capacities NEC community, UNDP)
Query poser: Paola De Orte
List of respondents: Jolanda, Minal Mehta, Paola De Orte shared Rakotonandrasana’s response, Rajib Nandi & Rituu B Nanda
Find query & detailed responses : https://gendereval.ning.com/forum/topics/challenges-to-integrate-ge...
Summary of responses
Members listed several challenges for integrating gender into evaluation. Members noted that the terminology is confusing for many- are equity focused and gender responsive evaluation different from feminist evaluation? Then these kind of evaluations are limited to a small group of practitioners. Many of those associated with evaluation feel that gender experts or those experienced in the approach can conduct equity focused and gender focused evaluation. Therefore, respondents observed that there is a lack of understanding and capacity on the evaluation approach. Many are not aware where they can avail resources to build their capacity. Additionally, most of the literature available on feminist evaluation is academic and very technical.
Respondents said that commitment at policy level is essential to ensure equity focused and gender responsive evaluations are conducted at national level. Elaborating on this, respondents noted these challenges- lack of political will, lack of appropriate program planning, monitoring and evaluation methods and weak implementation of laws. So, the main issue is the advocacy to the national government to mainstream gender equality issue in policy and interventions. Policy makers and government officials should be convinced that the gender is one of the obstacles in achieving inclusive and sustainable development. Communication on values of equity focused gender responsive evaluations to the policy makers or the agencies those commission/undertake evaluations continues to be a difficult task. However, a member was happy to share that Madagascar has established a Ministry, which promotes the gender equality.
Not many projects have gender as primary focus, members said. Further, the projects should have an M&E system, which has gender sensitive indicators. A respondent shared her experience in program evaluation of MDG-3 goal "Increase Women Political Leadership" and observed that systems are in place in many places but very little is done to learn from challenges and successes on a daily basis. Another striking element is that when equality is the core value to be evaluated; evidence based evaluation needs to be processed on the basis of diversity of social groups among men and women, in their role as change makers and in their role as change users; however this requires high professionalism in use of research.
In sum, to allow the integration of the gender equality approaches into evaluation, there should be policies, interventions and national projects focused on gender and equity. Building capacity of evaluators will be key to ensure evaluations are conducted from gender and equity lens.
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Comment by Rituu B Nanda on February 3, 2015 at 12:48
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Thomas Thinakaran
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Comment by Rhonda Schlangen on January 15, 2015 at 21:53
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Thanks very much, Rituu! This succinct summary is indeed very helpful.
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Julaine, you have raised a critical point. If you read the detailed responses most respondents pondered on equity. I will add your response to the main discussion and also to the summary. Thank you and warm greetings!
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Comment by Julaine Allan on January 15, 2015 at 3:41
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Rituu, thank you very much for this summary. It is very useful in describing the challenges of gender evaluation. I think there is a difference between equity and equality and the terms are not interchangeable. It could be helpful to decide which term is preferred and how this shapes goals for programs and for evaluations.
Julaine
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