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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

    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

  • Economy and Inequality

    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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INCLUDOVATE -  Call for Researchers, Pacific Focus

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

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Request for resources on INTERSECTIONALITY + GENDER MAINSTREAMING in Climate Change Projects

REQUEST FOR RESOURCES RELATED TO INTERSECTIONALITY IN THE CONTEXT OF GENDER MAINSTREAMING IN ADAPTATION PROJECTS

The Adaptation Fund is currently conducting a study on ‘intersectional approaches to integrating gender considerations in climate change adaptation projects.’

In organizing the desk review, we are interested in gathering relevant project documents, reports and/or statistics that have applied the concept of intersectionality in the context of gender mainstreaming in adaptation projects. If you have potential resources that meet this criteria, we would highly appreciate if you can share the relevant materials with the lead consultant, Dr. Katie Tavenner - tavenka05@gmail.com by June 4, 2021.

Thanks so much in advance!

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Permalink Reply by Dr Katie Tavenner on June 1, 2021 at 19:07

Thank you for your message, Tonny. Methodologically speaking, we are casting a very big net to capture relevant literature, as "applied intersectionality" appears to be a novel concept in climate adaptation. There is no country preference, but we are interested in practical/case study examples where intersectional approaches have been applied.

At present, the desk review is drawing on peer-reviewed and secondary/gray/unpublished sources, using the databases Google Scholar, ProQuest, JSTOR, SAGE Journals online, Taylor & Francis Online Journals, Wiley Online Library, and the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research publications database.

Thank you in advance for sharing any resources you believe would be helpful to the study!

Permalink Reply by Roshan Rathod on June 1, 2021 at 19:55

Hello Katie, 

Sharing a book of which I co-authored a chapter that may be of interest. 

https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/46959/97810... (It is open access)

All the best! and happy to share ground level insights as i work closely with communities on climate change adaptation in the Indian Himalayan region

Roshan Rathod

Permalink Reply by Dr Katie Tavenner on June 1, 2021 at 23:02

Thank you for sharing the link to your book, Roshan, I think your chapter (and several others) look like great content for the review. As I gather case-study level examples of applying intersectionality in gender mainstreaming in climate adaptation projects, I would be very interested to hear your ground level insights!

Permalink Reply by Anne Stephens on June 2, 2021 at 4:40

Dear Dr Katie

Please see the work of myself and my colleagues thinking about intersectional approaches in development that try to avoid a forced categoricalism from the global north. Introducing the GEMs framework.

https://www.ethosofengagement.com/ise4gems

We have been applying this work and there is much research and room for thought in how this can and perhaps should be applied. Please feel free to reach out to Dr Ellen Lewis or myself, Dr Anne Stephens, to talk about GEMs framework at any time. 

Permalink Reply by Dr Katie Tavenner on June 2, 2021 at 8:29

Thank you, Anne, for sharing this very interesting framework!

Given that you have been applying the framework, might you or any of your co-authors have additional 'case study' style documentation that you could share?

Thank you again for sharing!

Permalink Reply by Anna Gero on June 2, 2021 at 12:47

Dear Katie,

Our team of researchers at the Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney, together with civil society partners, Plan International and WaterAid, developed several outputs from our "Climate change response for Inclusive WASH" research.

Two guidance notes, designed closely with Plan International Indonesia and WaterAid Timor-Leste field staff, outline easy-to-implement community-based activities to get local stakeholders thinking about how people are affected differently by climate impacts on WASH, and how gender and social inclusion in WASH builds climate resilience.

Two case studies, one focusing on rural sanitation in Indonesia and one focusing on rural water in Timor-Leste, shed light on the experiences of community members with climate impacts on WASH. The case studies demonstrate the way gender, and social norms and structures shape how people feel about and respond to climate change.

Finally, our learning paper explains interconnected key concepts: gender and social inclusion, WASH, and climate change, and how these informed the research behind these outputs.

See here for all outputs, including in Bahasa Indonesia and Tetun languages

https://waterforwomen.uts.edu.au/climate-change-response/#outputs  

I hope these are of interest.

Permalink Reply by Dr Katie Tavenner on June 2, 2021 at 21:16

Wow Anna, thank you so much for sharing these resources! They are highly relevant to the study and I anticipate the case study examples will be particularly useful.

Thank you again for taking the time to share all of these great outputs!

Permalink Reply by KALYANI MENON-SEN on June 2, 2021 at 15:23

Hi Katie. here is a link to something I wrote recently - a plea for a shift to a feminist approach on climate issues and why this is urgently required. I'm sharing because it has direct implications for evaluation, so maybe you'll find it useful. Cheers. KALYANI

a href="https://genderatwork.org/portfolio-item/wanted-a-feminist-l...

Permalink Reply by Dr Katie Tavenner on June 2, 2021 at 21:25

Thank you, Kalyani, for sharing your timely post and call to action for gender warriors in development! I think your argumentation in this post will inform both the conceptual lens and the recommendations emergent from the study. Would you be able to share any additional resources for the IDRC-funded project "Accelerating Climate Action: Social Equity and Empowerment of Women and Girls” that your post was inspired by?

Thank you again for sharing your work! 

Permalink Reply by Pallavi Sobti Rajpal on June 3, 2021 at 20:37
Safeguarding planetary health in the Anthropocene epoch needs more than climate change mitigation such as better mainstreaming of environment into political and economic frameworks to improve planetary boundary markers such as biodiversity, atmosphere, ocean acidification, biogeochemical flows, freshwater use, land-use and those markers that have not yet been quantified. The humanitarian crisis unleased by the COVID-19 pandemic and the devastation caused by Cyclone Tauktae and Cyclone Yaas reveal socio-economic vulnerabilities as well as highlight the need for resilience. The COVID-19 pandemic not only reminds the world of declining planetary health but of the deep inequalities prevailing across the world and busts the myth that “everyone is in the same boat”. The impact of the pandemic, when felt most strongly by the more vulnerable sections of society clearly highlights inequity in our society. 
 The curtain raiser event to World Sustainable Development Summit (WSDS) 2022 is being held on 4 June 2021 to commemorate the World Environment Day and bring together perspectives on the theme of ‘Sustainable, Equitable and Resilient Water Use’. The theme of ‘water’ is crucial to the overall WSDS 2022 theme. Using the lens of water can help provide perspectives on local, sub-national, national, transnational and global environmental and social issues  
Nafisa Barot is to speak on the eminent Panel of the Virtual Curtain Raiser to WSDS 2022 and Discussion on Sustainable, Equitable and Resilient Water Use organized by TERI & WSDS.
Join through the following links to hear the Panel. 
In solidarity
Team Utthan
Permalink Reply by Dr Katie Tavenner on June 5, 2021 at 0:51

Thank you, Pallavi, for the link to the curtain raiser event. It looks like an interesting discussion.

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