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Evaluation of UN Women’s Work on the Care Economy in East and Southern Africa 

A regional study of gender equality observatories in West and Central Africa, carried out by Claudy Vouhé for UN Women

Sources: UN Women

This regional study offers an inventory and analysis of the legal framework of gender observatories, their attributions, functions and missions. It is based on exchanges with 21 countries, in particular the eleven countries that have created observatories. It compares the internal organisation and budgets of the observatories between countries, looks at operational practices, in particular the degree of involvement in the collection and use of data, and identifies obstacles and good practices in terms of influencing pro-gender equality public policies. Finally, the study draws up a list of strategic recommendations intended for observatories, supervisory bodies and technical and financial partners.

MSSRF Publication - November 2025 - Shared by Rajalakshmi

Ritu Dewan - EPW editorial  comment on Labour Codes

Eniola Adeyemi Articles on Medium Journal, 2025

An analysis of the “soft life” conversation as it emerges on social media, unpacking how aspirations for ease and rest intersect with broader socio-economic structures, gendered labour expectations, and notions of dignity and justice

Tara Prasad Gnyawali Article - 2025

This article focused on the story of community living in a wildlife corridor that links India and Nepal, namely the Khata Corridor, which bridges Bardiya National Park of Nepal and Katarnia Wildlife Sanctuary of Uttar Pradesh, India.
This article revealed how the wildlife mobility in the corridor affects community livelihoods, mobility, and social inclusion, with a sense of differential impacts on farming and marginalised communities.

Lesedi Senamele Matlala - Recent Article in Evaluation Journal, 2025

Events

Vacancies

UN Women has announced an opportunity for experienced creatives to join its global mission to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment.

The organization is recruiting a Multimedia Producer (Retainer Consultant) to support communication and advocacy under the EmPower: Women for Climate-Resilient Societies Programme.

This home-based, part-time consultancy is ideal for a seasoned multimedia professional who can translate complex ideas into visually compelling storytelling aligned with UN Women’s values.

Application Deadline: 28 November 2025
Job ID: 30286
Contract Duration: 1 year (approximately 200 working days)
Consultancy Type: Individual, home-based

Members

Are you attending IDEAS Global Assembly

Dear Members,

IDEAS is an independent association of evaluation professionals, those interested in evaluation, and those who seek to bring credible information and knowledge to the development agenda. As you know IDEAS is organising an international evaluation conference next week in Bangkok. If you are attending kindly leave your names in the comments section so that all members of Gender and Evaluation community can know who is attending. Maybe we can meet informally. Also share if you are presenting at the conference.

Happy to inform that we will be presenting as well. Do join us on 30th October from 11 am to 12:30 pm. 

"Special panel session 7: Equity focused and gender responsive evaluations from India, chaired by Rashmi Agrawal.

Panel members Rituu B. Nanda, Vimala Ramachandran, Renu Khanna, Vivek Pandey and Venu Arora
Sponsored and organized by the Institute of Social Studies Trust of India"

Warm regards,

Rituu

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Permalink Reply by Michele Tarsilla on October 21, 2015 at 17:32

Dear Colleagues,

I hope all is well. As a member of the IDEAS Board, I will be attending the Global Assembly. We are all working very hard to make this year's event a very memorable one for all participants. I will be presenting on Evaluation Capacity Development (ECD). However, our GenderEVal fellow members out there who will be attending the conference might be particularly interested in the following session on Equity and Gender "Children and girls – and a simplified audit methodology" (more details below):

Abstracts at: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B3dWAH4V0kE9ZG5Kamtmdno4S1k...

Chair:  Michele Tarsilla, IDEAS Board Member

Juliet Carolyn Anewa Odeke
Evaluating UPE outcomes for the girl child in Uganda; an appraisal of lessons for development based recommendations

Sonal Zaveri
Engendered and Endangered Realities: Evaluation of High Risk Adolescent Girls

Serge Eric Yakeu Djiam
Capitalization of lessons learned from the survival yards for disabled people in Burkina Faso, Ghana and Niger

Shagun Sabarwal
Gender sensitive and politically relevant real-world impact evaluations: lessons from 3ie impact evaluations

Hur Hassnain
Allowing Children to Measure and Report on Levels of Perceived Safety in their Community in the Conflict Affected Countries

I look forward to connecting with many of you at the conference.

Best,

Michele 

Michele Tarsilla, Ph.D.

Evaluation and Capacity Development Specialist

Twitter: MiEval_TuEval - My LinkedIn Blogs

Permalink Reply by Rituu B Nanda on October 21, 2015 at 19:08

Seems to be a very interesting panel. Look forward to seeing you Michele!

Permalink Reply by Jean de Dieu BIZIMANA on October 21, 2015 at 19:51

Thank you Michele,really it is important for me to attend the Global assembly,and share knowledge's and experiences with my colleagues however I'am challenged by funds.

Regards

Permalink Reply by Isha Wedasinghe Miranda on October 21, 2015 at 17:59

Really wants to but not coming due to constraints of funds.

Permalink Reply by Rituu B Nanda on October 21, 2015 at 19:11

Will try to share whatever I learn. Would that be ok? As you shared the photos of SLEVA conference, through them I got a glimpse what happened. It was nice. Also I am presenting our gender and evaluation community. Would you have any ideas on how and what to share? Thanks!

Permalink Reply by Isha Wedasinghe Miranda on October 21, 2015 at 20:14

Dear Ritu

My Pleasure  and please do so. Yes I would like to share since i am attached to SLEvA as well as I am one of the Board Member and Elected Secretary from 1st of November to APEA (Asian Pacific Evaluation Association), that  through my work  proven  experience developing and using innovative qualitative evaluation techniques to assess the  gender base violence awareness among the garment factory workers in Sri Lanka. How ever we faced enormous challenges , during the data collections scenario. i.e. it was known factor in the program level that most awareness has been deliver to women  groups than men groups. But our evaluations of well balance gender FDGs, during the session we were able to receive  unexpected  hostile from elder men populations as well as collaborative approach from young men populations.  

  

Permalink Reply by Aida Orgocka on October 21, 2015 at 20:56

Dear colleagues,

I will be attending the IDEAS Global Assembly. I will attend the pre-meeting workshops as well. My own presentation on evaluating education initiatives in protracted refugee situations is on October 29. 

I look forward to meeting colleagues who are attending.

Best,

Aida 

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