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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."
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.
Toolkit for Gender Sensitive Participatory Evaluations - Part I (Overview)
We at the Institute of Social Studies Trust invited Ranjani Murthy, feminist researcher and evaluator, to our workshop to share the participatory evaluaution tools that she uses when she conducts evaluations. While many of these tools are used in participatory research and evaluations, our interest in these tools 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.
The first is an overview of the various participatory tools used in gender sensitive and equity focused evaluations. The second, third and fourth videos demonstrate three tools in particular- power walk, resource mapping and body mapping. We are grateful to both Ranjani Murthy and to all our workshop participants for their contribution. We invite your reflections on the following:
- How useful do you think this video is? How would you use the tools talked of here?
- What is your experience of using similar / other tools to conduct evaluations before? Can you kindly share the tools and your experience in using them?
- Have you used these or similar tools to conduct gender sensitive, equity focused/feminist evaluations? Do you have any modifications to suggest from your experiences?
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Comment by Pramod Sharma on June 19, 2014 at 17:08
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Ranjani, In addition, I think we need to discuss more practical issue related to participatory methods. for example, if a researcher is inexperience can start with easy topics and over the period of time she/he can take some complicated topics. Easy topics may be hand washing, food habits, or similar...and when researcher get experienced can play with complicated topics.
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Comment by Ranjani K.Murthy on June 18, 2014 at 8:19
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Dear Rituu
I do agree that meeting other family members helps in gender-sensitive participatory evaluations. They should be met separately.
When their view points contradict we should give more importance to what the women say, and avoid bringing all members together to come to a consensus.
best
Ranjani
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Comment by Rituu B Nanda on June 16, 2014 at 21:23
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Dear Ranjani,
My experience too is similar to Mr Bhabatosh and yours- engaging the family is critical if we want to bring about a change.
Also in participatory approaches creating an enabling, judgmental environment is key if we want communities to share.
One resource which I found useful in overview of gender and participatoy practices is from IDS.
Gender and Participation: Supporting Resources Collection
http://www.bridge.ids.ac.uk/go/bridge-publications/cutting-edge-pac...
By directing practitioners to useful information sources and examples on gender and participatory approaches, the Supporting Resources Collection seeks to contribute to a better understanding of how gender sensitive, participatory development has been and can be achieved. This collection also aims to support the work of busy gender and non-gender specialists, especially those in operational positions with direct responsibility for programme design, implementation and management. We hope this collection will encourage collaboration, networking and pooling of resources.
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Dear Bhabatosh, Shanta and Pramod
Thanks so much for your comments.
Bhabatosh- agree that 'in laws' that it is important to examine if the relationship of women with in-laws have changed towards greater equality. I would add if the principle stakeholder is an adolescent girl relations with parents and brothers are important to examine.
Yes Pramod- your input on group size is very important. Too big a group is not good, too small does not give much inputs. I think group size should also vary with what is being discussed.
Shanta- time and resource intensity are constraints. One has to be strategic based on the context.
cheers
Ranjani
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Comment by Bhabatosh Nath on June 11, 2014 at 23:33
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Dear Sraddha,
Thank you so much for sharing this toolkit. As you mentioned in your video discussion, YES, I fully agree that WOMEN HAVE THEIR OWN INDICATORS, and for designing participatory gender aware method, these indicators are truly the basic ingredients of such evaluation method.
I think we should target the 'FAMILY' as the 'UNIT' of our study. Regarding 'selection of women' (as you mentioned) in the participatory methods, it is very important for the evaluators to select the appropriate respondents. We all know that in this subcontinent the role of 'In-laws' (mother-in-law, father-in-law, brother and sister-in-laws) is very vital to change a life of a woman who becomes the part of a family after her marriage in that family. But we in many cases ignore the 'in-laws' to take into consideration to take them as 'stakeholders'/ beneficiaries of a project or to consider them as the respondents of an evaluation study, in particular. So I think we should work with the in-laws to really reduce the women violence and to establish gender equity at family level. For 'Gender sensitive participatory evaluation' we should not ignore the men and especially the 'in-laws' to select them to design the participatory method and also to take them as respondents of the study.
These are all for now.
Live well.
With warmest regards,
Bhabatosh NATH
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Comment by Shanta Laxmi Shrestha on June 7, 2014 at 10:40
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Great! How to overcome the challenges -resource intensity, time taking etc. -of participatory gender evaluation? This question remains a challenge .
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This is a wonderful idea to share such video. A very good learning. I was regular part of participatory research in villages (not exactly on in depth gender issues) . I just wanted to add specially in Indian condition (where population is more). group size should be appropriate, which can be handled by the researcher (ideal size could be in between 3-14). if the people are more then they can be divided in more groups, for more convenient discussion. two people from researcher side is always good in unfamiliar places. good homework is always help. The other thing is many people can't express in the groups. so a personal discussion can also help.
Case studies can also help in the participatory research. Thanks for such a lovely platform.
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