Monthly Corner
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.
Communication:- Murmuring, Whispering, Voice and Noise and art of listening and understanding
Communication is a 2 way process. which involves an expresser and a listener.
Murmuring is the reaction to uneasy feelings. It takes some time to find words to express in the community. It is very common among poor and fearful people. It is one kind of complain, expression of dissatisfaction and protest but not in clear words. It is a personal expression related to personal problem in search of help from outside.
Outsider can only see the dissatisfaction and get only some vague ideas about the dissatisfaction but not conclusive. Dissatisfaction could be because of very personal problem (health, hunger etc) or community related (water supply, electricity or traffic or injustice etc).
These pain, dissatisfaction or complaints need words to express in the community but words are limited. So one can’t express all her/his pain in words to others. So in the process some pain, dissatisfaction could not be expressed.
When Murmuring gets words, Whispering starts.
Whispering is done to find out whether this is also a problem of the society or not? or to develop a voice. Whispering generally begins with close friends or family members or in same age groups or same gender or same social economic groups or trusted people etc. It is done with clear words, but with lower voice and with fewer people at one time so that many people or irrelevant people across the society can’t hear. Whispering is also used for conspiracy.
These whispers became voice but again in modified form because not all the groups or individuals are facing the same pain or problems at one particular time.
Institutions don’t work on personal problems (murmuring) directly, they can act on community needs or problems (Voice with clear words in audible sound) to help individuals of community indirectly.
When the group gets ready with a voice, they visit to the institutions to find solutions of their problems. Institutions have their own limitations (funds, interference of various interest groups and influential groups). So they hear but again ask for the modifications as per their limits.
if the voice is not heard, the group has to work hard to convert voice into noise. Many times or almost all the time , translating pain into murmur to voice and noise takes many years.
Many problems settle and several remain intact for many years because words are limited to express. In addition, whatever words are available hasn’t reached to everyone yet due to many reasons but yes, poverty and gender biases are the main causes.
What a Listener can do when the voice is not clear ?
Voice and noise are jewellery of rich, powerful and few educated people and there are many possibilities that their voices suppress the murmur or modify according to their voice because murmur has no words. (In many heated discussion on TV, many times we hear from participants that “don’t put your words in my mouth”).
In such cases authorities, institutions can come forward and be not only more sensitive but also more honest and open minded towards people who don’t have clear voices and complete the communication instead of waiting for a very clear audible voice. Because Institutions are formed to help individuals not only to govern people . Mostly the voices are adulterated. Regular participatory research with community can help.
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