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Laura Hughston - Blog
Arnoux Mouafo Nop & Dimitri Tsona Zapzi - Article
Prof. Wangari Mwai and Prof. Catherine Ndungo - BOOK
- Understanding Gender and Identity Through The Gender Dictionary
Publisher: Bleeding Ink Scribes
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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About the job
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.
🔗 Register here: https://lnkd.in/eyF66S7H
What is your biggest concern for evaluations during COVID-19?
I hosted a Zoom call on Thursday, April 9th, 2020 to discuss evaluation in international development during COVID-19.
I asked people when registering for the call (about 75 people) to identify their biggest concern for evaluations at this time. Then I grouped these by theme. Below is this list.
What are your biggest concerns?
What is your biggest concern for evaluations during COVID-19?
Comments from Registrants on Discussion on Evaluation in International Development
with Canadian Association of International Development Professionals April 9, 2020
Led by Elizabeth Dyke, Independent Health and Social Development Consultant
elizabethdykeconsulting@gmail.com
Overall Impact on Human Life
- The impact of response given aspects of its transmission, severity and health care efforts
- Catastrophic level of loss of life in developing countries
Overall Impact of COVID-19 on Programs
- That COVID-19 will likely have huge negative repercussions on other health programs
- How do we make sure a multi-sectoral approach to pandemic is prioritized, with programming, response, and for evaluation?
- Regular programming has stopped
- Health Economics implications
Overall Impact of COVID-19 on Evaluations
- How COVID-19 will affect data?
- Programme implementation distortions reducing evaluability
- Practical conduct of evaluation during Covid-19
- Measuring secondary impacts of COVID-19 on program outcomes
- Impact of COVID-19 on results
- Recidivism due to COVID-19 and program results reflecting that
- Delays between intervention and data collection
- Going through the motions of evaluation when it is clearly the wrong time
- Not having enough response information
- Implementation challenges
- How halting interventions for different periods of time impact on evaluations and what should be minimum requirements
- Key stakeholder priorities have shifted
Equity Issues
- Gender, race and class dimensions
- Going beyond elites, hearing the voices of the hard to reach
- Insensitivity to the realities of people in dire straits
- How to ensure that the uncounted are made visible during the research process despite increased mobility constraints
- Inability to reach marginalized and vulnerable people for inclusion in adapted data collection practices
- Food security
Safety Issues
- Putting communities at risk
- Health and safety of workers
- Data collection, safety, security, ethics, field work and observations which are not possible during COVID
- Emotional wellbeing of children
Design and Data Collection Generally
- Data Collection
- Access for data collection
- Field data collection
- Getting the data
- Evaluation design and data collection constraints
- Qualitative data collection on (off) the field
- My biggest concern is how to collect qualitative data during covid-19
- Reaching the right people
- Gathering data from clients
- Interaction with clients/beneficiaries
- L'organisation pratique de l'évaluation dans ce contexte
Adaptation that is Needed (specifically and generally)
- How to rapidly re-scope/re-tool already-begun evaluations to deliver information that helps tackle the pandemic
- Evolving evaluation practices need to align to the new social paradigm
- Adaptation
- Not having knowledge/capacities to respond
Impact of Travel Restrictions
- Inability to travel overseas and collect data
- Travel restrictions preventing us from doing field work
- Travel to and from
- Field verification
- How to carry them out given restrictions on travel, meetings and gatherings
- Not being able to collect data due to movement restrictions
- In-country movement restrictions
- Mobility to conduct evaluations on the ground
Shift to Local Data Collection?
- Field data collection and training data collectors
- Smooth transition to localization
- Access and Accountability
- In person data collection
- When can we consider re-starting data collection activities?
Remote Data Collection including Challenges
- Less information is available using ICT for interviews than using site visits and in person
- How to conduct robust research in areas with limited digital access
- How to transition to remote evaluation and closer collaborative linkages with Southern partners
- Collecting data remotely
- Conducting /facilitating innovative approaches through online technology
- How to support capacity building of our colleagues in the south
- How do we effectively evaluate remotely/online?
- I was asked if evaluations interviews can be done online. I personally doubt that and wonder how can we move forward?
- Remotely doing multi country evaluation of community based adaptation and livelihood projects
- Les moyens de vérification de la fiabilité des données
That Evaluations will not be valued/will not be done/will not be rigorous
- That it will be skipped
- That evaluations will stop
- The importance of evaluation
- Ensure that rigorous evaluations take place to continue informing sound public policies, programs and projects
- Cancellation/ scaled down to the point of evals losing their value
- There are so many other needs at the moment that evaluations will not be given attention needed
Overall Impact on Evaluations and on Businesses
- Business Management
- Lower opportunities for evaluation contracts
- Impact on on-going Monitoring and Evaluation assignments
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