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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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Africa Is Ageing, but Are Health Systems Ready? Rethinking Care for Older Adults
By 2050, one in ten Africans will be over 60. Ghana alone expects its elderly population to hit 6 million, nearly triple today's number. That's not a distant demographic footnote; it's a health system stress test that's already underway. And new evidence from rural Ghana suggests we're not ready for it.
The numbers are already showing up at the front desk
A recent analysis of three years of hospital records (2020–2022) found that people aged 60 and above accounted for more than one-third of all outpatient visits a striking share for a population group that makes up a much smaller slice of the country's overall population. Attendance among older adults climbed steadily over the study period, from roughly 18,000 visits in 2020 to over 20,600 in 2022.
Interestingly, the gender gap that shows up in so many other health statistics barely appeared here; older men and women accessed care at roughly similar rates. What did stand out was why they were coming in: rheumatism and joint pain, hypertension, and respiratory illness dominated the diagnosis list, together accounting for more than half of all visits. These are the classic markers of a non-communicable disease (NCD) burden that's arriving faster than the system built to manage it.
This is the double burden, playing out in real time
Sub-Saharan Africa has spent decades building health infrastructure focused on infectious diseases and maternal and child health, and has made real progress on both fronts. But that success has a side effect: people are living long enough to develop the chronic conditions that come with age. The WHO estimates that people over 60 already carry nearly a quarter of the world's disease burden, and more than half of the disease burden in low- and middle-income countries will soon be driven by NCDs. Rural populations are hit hardest; they're roughly twice as likely as urban dwellers to be living with a chronic condition, often with the least access to specialists.
The result is a system managing two epidemics at once: infectious disease it was designed for, and a chronic-disease wave it wasn't.
So how ready is the system, really?
Not very. Geriatric medicine barely exists as a specialty across most of the continent. There are few dedicated training programs, a chronic shortage of geriatric-capable clinicians, and almost no nursing homes or long-term care infrastructure, partly by design, since caregiving is culturally viewed as a family responsibility, but partly because the alternative was never built. Most national policies aimed at older adults focus on social protection, cash transfers, and insurance premium waivers rather than on making the clinical system itself ready to treat older patients well.
Using the WHO's health system "building blocks" as a scorecard workforce, leadership and governance, service delivery, financing, medical products, information systems, and logistics; the gaps show up almost everywhere: too few trained staff, thin financing for chronic disease management, and health information systems that are only just being built out (Ghana's own electronic records platform only launched in 2020).
What "ready" would actually look like
The fix isn't exotic. It's investment, applied deliberately:
- Train and retain a geriatric-capable workforce: even a modest core of geriatric-trained doctors and nurses per region would be transformative.
- Shift from reactive to preventive care: most older adults in this study presented only after they were already sick. Screening and chronic disease management at the primary care level could catch conditions earlier and cheaper.
- Extend financing protections: insurance schemes that reduce out-of-pocket costs for chronic disease management, not just acute care.
- Build the data infrastructure to see the problem clearly: you can't manage what you can't measure, and most African health systems still have limited visibility into their own ageing-population trends.
The bottom line
Africa's ageing population isn't a future problem: it's a present one, visible in the outpatient queues of a rural Ghanaian hospital right now. The continent successfully rewired its health systems once, around infectious disease and maternal health. The evidence suggests it's time to do it again, this time for the chronic, age-related conditions that are quietly becoming the new normal at the clinic door.
Based on: Anaba, C.L. & Kumah, E. "Realigning and Improving Health Systems for Healthy Ageing: A Strategy to Improve Health Service Utilization Among the Ageing Population in Rural Ghana."
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