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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.

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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

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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.

We are particularly keen to connect with experts from:
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and across the wider Pacific region.

We welcome expertise in:
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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.

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Report Presentation, Data Visualization, and One-page Report Highlights

Namaste from Beautiful Boise, Idaho!

During the first six weeks of the Idaho legislative session, we issued three evaluation reports:

1.  The K-12 Longitudinal Data System (ISEE)

http://www.legislature.idaho.gov/ope/publications/reports/r1503.html

2.  The State's Use of Legal Services

http://www.legislature.idaho.gov/ope/publications/reports/r1502.html

3.  Use of Salary Savings to Fund Employee Compensation

http://www.legislature.idaho.gov/ope/publications/reports/r1501.html

Policymakers and stakeholders have found these reports useful in making policy, budget, and programmatic decisions.

I would love to hear your thoughts on the content of these reports, the way we presented evaluation findings, data visualization, and how we condensed the report highlights onto one page.

Thank you and best wishes,

Rakesh

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Rakesh Mohan, Director

Office of Performance Evaluations

Idaho State Legislature

http://www.legislature.idaho.gov/ope/

 

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Permalink Reply by Rituu B Nanda on February 23, 2015 at 14:51

Hi Rakesh,

Thanks for sharing. Why do you think the policy makers and stakeholders found these reports useful? What did you learn from the experience? I ask because I wish to learn from you.

Warm regards from Delhi,

Rituu

Permalink Reply by Rakesh Mohan on March 22, 2015 at 12:48

Dear Rituu,

I believe these reports are useful to our policymakers because they address the following points:

1.  Policymakers are extremely busy people with very short attention span.  Everyone is competing for their attention.  Therefore, evaluators can never write reports that are too concise and too simple (plain language).

2.  Most policymakers are going to read only your one-page highlights or maybe the executive summary. Once something grabs their attention, then they will read parts of the report for additional details.

3.  The main report is usually not for policymakers; it is for program staff and other stakeholders.

4.  We need to make sure we clearly and directly answer the questions policymakers have asked us.  In other words, we have to be responsive to their information needs.

5.  The report must be issued in a timely fashion.  Late reports, regardless of their high quality, are of no use to policymakers if they miss the window of opportunity for legislative action.

I apologize for the delayed response -- crazy busy with our legislative session.

Best wishes and Namaste,

Rakesh

Permalink Reply by Inka Píbilová on March 4, 2015 at 16:21

Thank you, Rakesh, I really like the key messages in the side bar! I have also noted that you add conclusions directly to each chapter, but you still keep findings (facts) separate. It really helps te flow.... :)

Permalink Reply by Rakesh Mohan on March 22, 2015 at 12:09

Dear Inka,

Thank you much for the feedback.  For the past couple of years we have been experimenting with report presentation -- trying to find out what works and what does not.  Of course, each project is different; which adds another layer of complexity in our efforts to standardize our reporting format.

I apologize for the delayed response; I've been busy with our legislative session here.

Best wishes,

Rakesh

Permalink Reply by KylieHutchinson on March 4, 2015 at 18:40

FYI Rakesh, I've included these examples in an upcoming presentation on Effective Reporting at the ALGA conference in May.  They were just what I needed, thanks.

Kylie

Permalink Reply by Rakesh Mohan on March 22, 2015 at 12:03

Dear Kylie,

I am honored that you will be using our reports as examples for your presentation at the ALGA conference.

I apologize for the delayed response; I've been crazy busy with the legislative session here in Boise.  One more week and then life would be somewhat normal.

On Monday, March 23, we will issue two more evaluation reports:

1.  Idaho's Instructional Management System (Schoolnet) Offers Lessons for Future IT Systems

2.  Application of the Holiday Leave Policy

The Schoolnet report was challenging to write because of its highly political context.  Both of these reports will be available on our website on Monday morning.

Best wishes,

Rakesh

Permalink Reply by K.T.P on March 4, 2015 at 23:02

Hi Rakesh,

Grateful for drawing our attention to the three OPE reports. Some quick comments:

- Presentation of evaluation findings: Unlike so many reports I have seen, the findings are concise and the content is easy to interpret, even upon a fast browse. I like the side-bar comments very much as I found that it made it easier to gauge the direction of the main points. Many reports tend to be a mass of text, with a few matrices or tables, but in the OPE reports, the side-bar and graphics break up that monotony...

- The data visualization, as presented, captures the key variables and illustrates patterns clearly without being over the top. 

- Report highlights fitting on one page is an increasing trend now, even if being succinct while maintaining substance is an ongoing challenge for reporting on complex evaluations.

I suspect that the aforementioned considerations would perhaps contribute positively to the utility of the findings and their integration into decision-making at the different levels.

With thanks and regards,

Karen

Permalink Reply by Rakesh Mohan on March 22, 2015 at 12:26

Dear Karen,

Thank you much for the wonderful feedback.  For the past two years, we have been experimenting with our report presentation -- trying to find out what works and what does not.

Many of our policymakers have positively commented on the one-page highlights, large font sized headings, and the sidebar.

We will be issuing two more evaluation reports on Monday.

I apologize for the delayed response; have been crazy busy with our legislative session.

Best regards,

Rakesh

Permalink Reply by Md. Safiur Rahman on March 5, 2015 at 9:31

Dear Rakesh,

Great! Thanks a lot sharing the nice documents. Really I would like to appreciate using the sidebar.

Thanks and regards.

Safiur 

Permalink Reply by Rakesh Mohan on March 22, 2015 at 11:47

Thank you much, Safiur.  Best regards,

Rakesh

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