Monthly Corner
Claudy Vouhé shared GRB in local authorities (French)
Gender-Responsive Budgeting (GRB) shows that the development of a budget and budgetary choices are powerful levers in terms of gender equality. We share our lessons learned in the field: a 5-step method, concrete examples (culture, sport, subsidies, public procurement, etc.) and keys to success. An operational work to objectify the impact of public policies and budgets and make RHL accessible.
Anuradha Kapoor Shared Swayam Recent Published Study
This exploratory study foregrounds the largely invisible issue of natal family violence (NFV) in India, exploring its forms, prevalence, and deep, long-term impacts on women's lives. It challenges the myth of the natal home as a safe space and centres survivor voices and lived experiences. The findings expose systemic silences and institutional barriers to justice. It offers vital insights for policy reform, feminist praxis, and deeper societal reflection.
Research Workshop on School Violence Prevention and Response - BLOG POST
Blog post summarizing key findings from each presentation and highlighting the outstanding research of all participants
Tara Prasad Gnyawali - Narrative
My flashback to working with wildlife-affected communities living in a biological transboundary corridor in Bardiya, Nepal, where I spent my golden 15 years. This story reflects changes that demonstrate how a community's tolerance extends to coexistence, and that is only due to the well-integrated planning of Ecotourism opportunities for the community.
Mehreen Farooq - BLOG
Events
Vacancies
- We’re Hiring: National Evaluation Consultant – Bangladesh
UN Women is recruiting a National Evaluation Consultant (Bangladesh) to support the interim evaluation of the Joint Regional EmPower Programme (Phase II).
This is a great opportunity to work closely with the Evaluation Team Leader and contribute to generating credible, gender-responsive evidence that informs decision-making and strengthens programme impact.
📍 Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh (home-based with travel to project locations)
📅 Apply by: 24 February 2026, 5:00 PM
🔗 Apply here: https://lnkd.in/gar4ciRr
If you are passionate about feminist evaluation, gender equality, and rigorous evidence that drives change (or know someone who is) please apply or share within your networks.
- Seeking Senior Analyst - IPE Global
About the job
IPE Global Ltd. is a multi-disciplinary development sector consulting firm offering a range of integrated, innovative and high-quality services across several sectors and practices. We offer end-to-end consulting and project implementation services in the areas of Social and Economic Empowerment, Education and Skill Development, Public Health, Nutrition, WASH, Urban and Infrastructure Development, Private Sector Development, among others.
Over the last 26 years, IPE Global has successfully implemented over 1,200 projects in more than 100 countries. The group is headquartered in New Delhi, India with five international offices in United Kingdom, Kenya, Ethiopia, Philippines and Bangladesh. We partner with multilateral, bilateral, governments, corporates and not-for-profit entities in anchoring development agenda for sustained and equitable growth. We strive to create an enabling environment for path-breaking social and policy reforms that contribute to sustainable development.
Role Overview
IPE Global is seeking a motivated Senior Analyst – Low Carbon Pathways to strengthen and grow its Climate Change and Sustainability practice. The role will contribute to business development, program management, research, and technical delivery across climate mitigation, carbon markets, and energy transition. This position provides exceptional exposure to global climate policy, finance, and technology, working with a team of high-performing professionals and in collaboration with donors, foundations, research institutions, and public agencies.
Important Call for Collective Action
Dear friends and colleagues:
I hope you're as well as can be under the circumstances. I'm writing with an important call to action.
The field of evaluation has NEVER recognized a woman of color from the Americas among its theorists/founders, whether through its professional association's theory awards program, flagship journal's oral histories, or sacred Evaluation Theory Tree. It has similarly NEVER formally recognized a person of any gender identity or expression who is indigenous to the Americas.
Numerous graduates of doctoral programs in evaluation are shocked to learn AFTERWARDS that members of the global majority have been formally trained in evaluation at the doctoral level, publishing about it, practicing it, and actively engaged in its US professional association since its inception. They learn thanks to the work of Hood & Hopson (2008), Thomas & Campbell (2020), and me (Shanker, 2019), among others. That is to say nothing of all those engaged in evaluative thinking through other disciplines and ways of knowing that we also never learn about in doctoral programs.
One sacred text in the evaluation community, which passes on its culture through doctoral programs and elsewhere, is Evaluation Roots. It originated then developed the idea of an Evaluation Theory Tree, which includes no women of color from the USA and no one indigenous to the Americas. A new edition of Evaluation Roots is in the process of authorship/publication. It reinforces the idea that evaluation is white, with a few brown authors and topics now sprinkled in but with no substantive shift in the narrative and still no representation indigenous to the Americas.
Keep in mind that these are US editions being discussed here. The supposedly "international" edition includes a grand total of ONE indigenous woman, Nan Wehipeihana, who would be the first to say, "too little, too late." Only one woman of color/ indigenous woman--IN THE WORLD--merits mention on the sacred Evaluation Theory Tree?
Seeing evaluation as white, especially in the face of evidence that it is not and has never been, hurts us all. For one thing, it contributes to what is called "implicit" or "unconscious" bias. These are actually learned associations about racial hierarchies of superiority and inferiority, that are *implicit* in the repeated patterns of racial stratification that we see in everyday life about who deserves to lead and who deserves to be led.
Contributing to this narrative does material damage to all evaluators, evaluated programs, and especially participants in evaluated programs. Program participants are already, by definition, disproportionately suffering the effects of white supremacist, capitalist, cis-hetero-patriarchal, abelist systems.
Because evaluation is portrayed and perceived as white, white-led firms and white consultants continue to get a disproportionate number of government and philanthropic contracts for evaluation. They subsequently earn an income practicing in a way that fails to honor the humanity and agency of program participants and fails to look critically at what programs are doing from the perspective of reinforcing patterns of oppression. These evaluations shape our thinking.
Please disrupt this narrative and begin co-creating a counter-narrative of evaluation. Sign and share this Google Form demanding that Evaluation Roots and Guilford more generally amplify the voices of those whom evaluation otherizes as well as make amends for and reverse a century of exploitation, exclusion, marginalization, and erasure. Link for the google form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeNojhYI2RWIlqaKXfGGe97m5m...
Signing is only one small part of a decades-long effort to dismantle oppressive systems as we build systems of healing and interdependence. We are well aware that we didn't start this work and, in fact, that is the impetus behind our insistence that those who did start it be recognized in the canon.
Thanks!
Vidhya Shanker, PhD
Replies to This Discussion
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Permalink Reply by Rituu B Nanda on
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Hi Vidhya, please would you share the link to the google form? Thanks
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Permalink Reply by Srividhya Shanker on
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Oh, sure--I had tried to embed the link but thanks to you, I see that that doesn't seem to have worked! Here it is:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeNojhYI2RWIlqaKXfGGe97m5m...
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Hi Vidhya, I signed the form and also shared from my experience:-) This is what I wrote:
Who owns the evaluation? Who owns the development? This is the question. It is not enough that we have evaluators of colour or from indigenous community. Are the evaluators ready to let go and allow communities particularly the most marginalised to take the lead ? The wisdom and lived experience of communities has been sidelined in development. Saviour attitude to 'help' the poor communities has created dependency on outsiders. Data combined with lived experience can help co-create solutions.
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Yes--thanks so much!
And yet "participation" is also used to reinforce the dominance of those profiting from asymmetrical, oppressive power dynamics (you may know that Uma Kothari has written about this and whiteness in development). Prediction and control are intrinsic to positivism, which comes out of the European Enlightenment/ colonial project.
Lived experience IS data--it's another way of knowing. And so as much as people of color and indigenous people can also uphold white supremacy and colonization (like women can also uphold patriarchy), in a world where the distribution of wealth is racialized and gendered, and where whiteness is associated with authority, many evaluators of color and indigenous evaluators are just one generation or paycheck out of poverty at most. Many continue to have family members experiencing poverty and send them remittances. Many continue to struggle financially and occupationally themselves, because when we bring the understanding we've gained from our lived experiences of oppression (economic and other types) into our evaluation design and practice, we are punished for doing so.
So yes, it is necessary but insufficient for evaluators of color and indigenous evaluators to be represented in the field's canon. And we need to think about this field-wide and intergenerationally as opposed to in terms of individual projects.
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