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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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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.
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Whether your expertise lies in data collection, research, evaluation, technical advisory, facilitation, or team leadership, we would love to hear from you.
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Ways to effectively work with research/evaluation agencies
Hello all, I am a monitoring and evaluation practitioner, currently associated with a reputed national NGO, and I have more than 15 years of experience in the development sector. During this journey, I have collaborated with multiple research/evaluation agencies to execute research or evaluation-related activities.
Working with an agency is not always a cakewalk as I have mixed experience with them. In our sector, we primarily recruit agencies for two main reasons – 1) to ensure the external validity of the assessment and 2) to fill the resource gap in executing such studies, as NGOs usually don’t have such a workforce in-house.
Based on my experience, to work with agencies smoothly/effectively, I am jotting down a few points that need to be considered. These may sound very common but trust me; I didn’t come across any such compilation.
Before finalising the agency -
- Draft your terms of reference (TOR)/Scope of work as precisely as possible. You must include ‘areas of inquiry’ for each target group. You may also indicate a preferred way of collecting data (quantitative/qualitative) for each inquiry area.
- While selecting any agency, please consider the team structure and profile. Please give special attention to the gender and inclusion aspect in the team proposed. Please ensure that the proposed/finalised team works on the study for the entire duration.
- Please listen to all shortlisted agencies (physical/virtual) about their understanding of the TOR and proposed solution. Please also give attention to the ethical practices offered by the agency.
After selecting the agency -
- Please do the inception meeting with the agency and provide them with all the relevant information. The inception report should have all the operational details of the study.
- Please ensure all data collection tools are vetted through the M&E and respective programme teams.
- Please participate in the orientation/ training programme of enumerators on data collection tools. This is crucial to know how they are going to administer the questionnaire.
During data collection -
- Please observe a few data collection sites to get to know the enumerators’ capability, response rate, and quality of response.
During data analysis –
- Please discuss with the agency and finalise all the required tables that need to be generated from the data. This would work well for descriptive analysis.
- For any inferential analysis, again, based on your experience and agency experience, list all the required tables. Both these steps will help you get the relevant information from the study and reduce the time for back and forth during the report review.
- Once tables are discussed, please finalise the report's chapterisation plan/flow of report.
On receiving the draft report –
- Please ensure the draft report is vetted through the M&E and respective programme teams.
- Please ask the agency for the raw dataset and analysis file/do file (STATA) / SPSS syntax. Please validate and run them on a sample basis. It will ensure the quality of data analysis.
I hope these points are helpful and practical to adapt.
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Comment by Sakshi Tekam on January 7, 2024 at 16:08
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This is very useful and insightful for me who is just starting. Thank you for the suggestions. Keep posting
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Comment by Marion A. Cabanes on March 23, 2023 at 23:13
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This is very useful information! Thank you!
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Comment by Audria Choudhury on March 23, 2023 at 21:28 -
We're actually looking at agencies to work with for a potential tool validation, so this is perfect timing! Very useful, thank you.
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Comment by Laia Luthi Solé on March 23, 2023 at 17:07
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Thanks Ritesh,
I agree with this point "Please ask the agency for the raw dataset and analysis file/do file (STATA) / SPSS syntax. Please validate and run them on a sample basis. It will ensure the quality of data analysis." because I have had an experience where I witnessed that the data was not being collected correctly, and having this point in the ToRs helped bring up the issue.
I would also like to share that, in my experience, participating in (some of) the data collection process itself was very interesting for me and for the agency, and gave me more information to review the analysis. Of course, this takes time, but it still worth it if you can only be there for a couple of days.
cheers,
Laia
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Comment by Alpaxee Kashyap on March 23, 2023 at 15:47
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Thank you so much for posting this Ritesh, really useful!
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