Toolkit for Gender Sensitive Participatory Evaluation Part II (Power Walk)

[Rituu B Nanda]

We at the Institute of Social Studies Trust invited Ranjani Murthy, feminist researcher and evaluator, to our workshop to share the participatory evaluation tools that she uses when she conducts evaluations. While many of these tools are used in participatory research and evaluations, our interest was to understand how these tools maybe used for gender sensitive and feminist evaluations. We are pleased to share with you the edited videos of the training Ranjani conducted with us. We are sharing this in four parts. Part one which was the overview of tools can be found here https://gendereval.ning.com/profiles/blogs/toolkit-for-gender-sensi...

This is second part of the toolkit which features a tool called Power Walk.

1. Did you find the tool of power walk useful? Would you like to use it in evaluations? If yes, how?
2. If you have used this tool before, what is your experience in using this tool?

Request for your experiences, so that we can learn from each other. Thanks!

[Ranjani K.Murthy]

Dear Bhabatosh, 

I like the "sorrows and successes". Do share it.

I use happiness mapping, 

Best

[Bhabatosh Nath]

Dear Ranjani,

Thank you so much for your interest. Sorry for my late response as I was out of internet connection for some days.

I very much like your approach and acknowledge your expertise, especially on gender sensitiveness and empowerment issues which you are highlighting to consider during evaluation.

Regarding 'evidence-based' topic, I think we can collect more examples from the people at grassroots level on their own measures/ indicators they use at their level in cases of women violence, household decision-making status, raising the voices etc. You showed in your ‘Power Walk’ slide the method of scaling 0 – 10. A woman in grassroots level (as a respondent of evaluation study) also have some sorts of ‘scoring’ system to express the depth of her sorrows and successes, which she once experienced from any occurrence that happened in her life. She expresses herself and analyzes the situation of her family, her society through presenting evidences, showing the situation through articulation of her hands, body, face and so on. It could also be related to ‘role playing’ to express the situation. It is also ‘case-based’/evidence-based. However, I think we could follow these types of expressions and measures during evaluation and collect information.

[Rituu B Nanda]

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  Pacificah

  Pacificah Okemwa

  lecturer at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology

  This a powerful tool that allows communities to evaluate services from various stakeholders. It can be applied in a variety of community development projects.Thanks Rituu for sharing.

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  Ruba

  Ruba Banerjee

  Communication for Development Consultant at Self Employed

  Thanks for sharing. As a self employed consultant, opportunities to join in such capacity building exercises are few. The video effectively shows how this may be used in the field. I will be part ofimpact evaluation of increasing women's rights to land and livelihood and am thinking of using this as a tool. I think it will help in evaluating the position of the women before and after the intervention quantitatively to a certain extent. I was trying to measure the impact of their involvement in SHGs and increased earnings on indicators such level of domestic violence and dependence on money lenders.

[Rituu B Nanda]

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  Ferdousi

  Ferdousi Sultana Begum

  Social Development and Gender Specialist

  Thank you very much for sharing this useful toolkit.

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  Hamutal

  Hamutal Gouri

  Consult4good: storytelling, consulting and training for social change

  Thank you, this is a great tool!

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  Bhabatosh

  Bhabatosh Nath

  Executive Director at Responsive to Integrated Development Services (RIDS)

  This is a very good learning material. Thanks are due to you to share this with us. The video lecture is well-organized and the tone of Ranjani is very clear to easily understand. The more use of 'evidence-based' topics will certainly enrich the toolkit when reviewed further.

[Ranjani K.Murthy]

Dear Bhabatosh

Can you kindly clarify what you mean by evidence based topics.

While all the methods have been used in the field, this video is based on a workshop to strengthen the participants  ability to use the tools. PERHAPS WE SHOULD HAVE TAKEN THE VIDEO IN THE FIELD!

Do clarify. 

best 

Ranajni

[Bhabatosh Nath]

This is a very good learning material. Thanks are due to you to share this with us. The video lecture is well-organized and the tone of Ranjani is very clear to easily understand. The more use of 'evidence-based' topics will certainly enrich the toolkit when reviewed further.

[Ranjani K.Murthy]

There are few comments on the questions raised by Rituu related power walk  

1. Did you find the tool of power walk useful? Would you like to use it in evaluations? If yes, how?
2. If you have used this tool before, what is your experience in using this to

Some more discussions would be useful. thanks 

Ranjani

[Ranjani K.Murthy]

Dear Madhumita

It is humbling to know somebody uses some of the tools I/we introduce in training. 

Can you kindly elaborate how you used it while training the police. IT WOULD BE USEFUL FOR ALL OF US. 

Thanks so much

Ranjani

[madhumita sarkar]

This is an excellant tool. I have personally used it in different locations including my training with the police in Sri Lanka. I first watched Ranjini doing this in a workshop in Chennai.
It is a powerful tool and can be used effectively for evaluations.