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Laura Hughston - Blog
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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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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If evaluators behave like auditors!
I had the great pleasure today of attending a wonderful webinar on adapting evaluations during the COVID pandemic. I especially enjoyed a very inspiring presentation by our very own Rituu and her exchanges with us. Here a few insights and lessons from her discussion:
- If evaluators behave like auditors they will be perceived as such.
- A truly participatory evaluative process creates, especially for funders, commissioners and managers, time and space to reflect, exchange, learn; in other words, evaluative thinking.
- The fundamental evaluation question is, or should be, about the impact on (I would say value for) the community despite the fact that this may not be the commissioner’s question; this is what is meant by independent evaluation. (autonomy of evaluative judgment is another aspect).
- “NGOs were much better at it because they lived through it”. Yes! Lived experience is a deep, rich and meaningful source of knowledge and wisdom. If you eliminate that source ,e.g., by way of “standards of evidence” among others, we are not only cutting ourselves off from knowledge and wisdom (which come adapted to context) but we are adding to disenfranchisement (including to ourselves).
- The ethics of sharing data is a wonderful opportunity to engage with ourselves as so-called evaluators and I think that participatory analysis is absolutely fundamental to participatory processes and to empowerment.
- I love, and think, that evaluation should be about, “dreaming up ways to shift power”.
Thank you so much Rituu!
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Comment by Rituu B Nanda on June 15, 2021 at 20:14
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Corey Oser's learning from the same participatory review
1. NUMBERS TELL PART OF THE STORY2. PARTICIPATORY EVALUATION is WORTH it3. STORIES R EVIDENCE4. INDIVIDUAL JOURNEYS r PART OF ORG CHANGE5. TRANSFORMATION DEEPER THAN SUSTAINABILITY
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Comment by Fabiola Amariles on June 2, 2021 at 23:58
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Great insights, Ian. Thanks for sharing.
I could not attend Rituu´s presentation because it overlapped with another one. Is there any video available?
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