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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.
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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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Using UPRs to assess progress on SRHR: The case of BRICS
Universal Progress Reviews, BRICS and Sexual and Reproductive Healt...
Universal Progress Reviews, BRICS and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
The goal of Universal Progress Reviews (UPR) is the improvement of the human rights situation in every country with consequences for people around the globe. •To achieve this, the UPR involves assessing States’ human rights records and to prompt, support, and expand the promotion and protection of human rights on the ground. The UPR working group (47 countries) reviews the government’s report, culls out observation of treaty bodies, gathers feedback from civil society, and then comes up with its observation.
The latest review by the UPR working group of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) identifies several vulnerable groups including landless, informal sector workers, migrants, Blacks, indigenous people, minorities, people with disability, elderly, children and those affected by conflicts, and women and LGBTIQ. Several sexual reproductive health and rights issues are identified by the working group in the countries of BRICS:
- Trafficking of women and girls for sexual purposes,
- Maternal health/mortality in all countries (other than in Russia),
- Violence against cis women/girls and LGBTIQ (other than in China)
- Violation of SRHR of LGBTIQ, in India and Russia,
- Early marriage in India and South Africa,
- Harmful traditional practices like virginity tests and female genital mutilation in South Africa,
- Nutrition of women in reproductive age (only in India)
- Incidence of HIV, highlighted in working group report for south Africa
The working group identifies several country specific challenges, spilling to social determinants of SRHR and health system issues.
Brazil: Cuts in budget, limited conditions under which legal abortion is available, poor quality of SRH services, limited services for migrants, and supply of medicines being affected during COVID-19.
China: Human rights of LGBTIQ, rural-urban gap/regional gap in health infrastructure and inadequate health service for elderly.
India: Low public funding per capita, limited coverage of people with disability under insurance and limited capacity to provide services related to GBV and SRH (in particular to adolescents and LGBTIQ).
Russia: Criminalize domestic violence by relatives (decriminalized recently), ban nonconsensual procedure on inter-sex children, and strengthen health facility in rural and remote areas.
South Africa: Rural-urban and public-private disparities in quality of health services, limited abortion and SRH services for women and limited drug supply during COVID-19. National health insurance bill yet to be adopted
At the same time, the observations of the working group on BRICS indicate that there is a backlog of human rights treaties which have not been signed or ratified, and with this backlog being higher in China and Russia. A concern is that the convention on rights of migrant workers has not been ratified by any country in BRICS. The optional protocol of the International Covenant on Economic and Social Cultural Rights has not been signed by all the BRICS countries and the Convention on Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against women has not been signed by India and China.
If UPRs are to be used to promote SRHR it is important that the working group members are sensitive to SRHR, and are aware of strategies to address gaps in fulfilling SRHR and human rights. In particular, they need to have capacities to:
- Monitor SRHR,
- Monitor ratification of relevant human rights instruments and human rights situation,
- Monitor other social determinants of SRHR,
- Track functioning of health systems from SRHR lens,
- Strengthen capacity of SRHR groups to engage with universal progress review process
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Comment by Rituu B Nanda on December 24, 2022 at 14:27
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Am adding another element to it, Ranjani. Holding duty bearers/service providers is important but not enough. Community groups also need to take responsibility of their own behaviour.
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Comment by Ranjani K.Murthy on December 24, 2022 at 10:23
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Dear Rittuu
Thanks for your response.
I agree that groups comprising of young men, women and transgender should engage with UPR and such accountability processes. Building capacity of the next generation, in particular from marginalised groups, to engage in such processes, as well as duty bearers to hear their voices is crucial for accountability to SRHR.
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Ranjani
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Thanks for this article, Ranjani. I love learning from you!
Unearthing root causes of the issues highlighted will be valuable.
I wish the review would have mentioned the role youth particularly male, families and neighbourhoods can play in SRHR.
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