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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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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.
We are particularly keen to connect with experts from:
📍 Papua New Guinea
📍 Solomon Islands
📍 Vanuatu
📍 Timor-Leste
📍 Fiji
📍 Samoa
📍 Tonga
📍 Indonesia
📍 Australia
and across the wider Pacific region.
We welcome expertise in:
✓ Research, Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning
✓ Gender Equality & Social Inclusion
✓ Health & SRHR
✓ Disability Inclusion
✓ Youth Development
✓ Climate & Environment
✓ WASH
✓ Market Systems Development
✓ Governance & Community Development
Whether your expertise lies in data collection, research, evaluation, technical advisory, facilitation, or team leadership, we would love to hear from you.
By joining our Talent Pool, you become part of a trusted network of professionals who may be considered for future research, evaluation, advisory, and consulting opportunities across the Pacific region and beyond.
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A WEBINAR OF TRANSFORMING LIVES USING SALT
Webinar with the title "Let's HALT and learn SALT" was organized on 29th October 2021 under the aegis of the Department of Development Communication and Extension, Lady Irwin College, the University of Delhi in collaboration with Constellation, Evaluation Community of India, Global Fund for Children, Asia-Pacific Evaluation Association with a goal of co-creating knowledge on SALT: Participatory tool for evaluation with over 45 energetic participants. SALT stands for Share/Stimulate, Appreciate, Listen/Learn/ Link, and Transfer/ Teamwork.
The virtual model of education has been tough for the students to experience on-field activities but Rituu B. Nanda, community and evaluation facilitator created virtual learning more experiential. The entire webinar nestled on the pillar of participation from planning to implementation. I remember, our first interaction with Rituu was worthwhile. She didn't make us feel like an out-comer, she cushioned us with her talks and experiences. She delightfully assigned the responsibility to one of my classmates and me to suggest a title to the webinar and happily titled it with our suggested name.
The webinar commenced with the step of knowing the participants’ choices and perception of participants about things around them like college, its building, favourite spots to enjoy, etc. The agenda of the webinar was to apprise students about SALT as a technique, but the impressive part was we conducted the method on ourselves to comprehend it. What we name in our development fields; learning by doing. The webinar underlined the certainty that all of us are comprised of unique potentials or strengths which makes us distinct from one another, not all can do everything but together we can. Understanding one's innate strength makes one hopeful and drives towards achieving the goals. Every step of SALT tries to cultivate seeds of ownership and trust. This makes the human realize that he/she possesses capabilities to unravel issues around and start taking initiatives for it, which further stimulates them to strive for the set targets and become self-reliant.
With the assistance of case studies, Rituu expressed how complex problems can be brought into notice using a simple technique of SALT. It's not only exclusive to the field of evaluations but can be connected with various backgrounds. The SALT encourages people's strengths by appreciating them through positive reinforcement. It's important to keep the house in the process of learn-unlearn-relearn for a favourable transformation.
Field functionaries from two NGOs, Rural Aid and Avani were also a significant part of the webinar. They shared their lived experiences of using the SALT approach and shared success stories from fields which made our learnings more momentous. The objectives, challenges, stakeholder analysis shared were the core ingredients to our concepts which connected dots with practicality. At the end of the webinar, an evaluation was also done to express the strengths and weaknesses of the webinar and the scope of improvements for the future. The evaluation activity was executed by the field functionaries, every participant in the webinar felt acknowledged and respected because of the participatory approach.
In a nutshell, the webinar on SALT left us with the understanding that anything can be succeeded by acknowledging the strengths and working out as a team. One upshot that I'll surely try to inculcate in my day-to-day life is to be compassionate and listen to others and make them recognize their inner potential and show them the beam of hope within them. Several events leave you with lifelong footprints of understanding that how simple things make difference in the lives of people.
Palak Khanna
M.Sc. Development Communication and Extension, Lady Irwin College, University of Delhi
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Comment by Rituu B Nanda on December 23, 2021 at 22:07
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Thanks for your active participation in the community today, Rachel. There are marked differences between Robert Chambers approach and SALT https://the-constellation.org/our-approach/salt-clcp/
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Comment by Rachel Andriatsitohaina on December 23, 2021 at 2:09
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SALT appears similar to participatory methods in rural development proposed by Robert Chambers as well as user experience design.
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Thanks Palak. So honoured to learn from you.
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