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Laura Hughston - Blog
Arnoux Mouafo Nopi & Dimitri Tsona Zapzi - Article
Prof. Wangari Mwai and Prof. Catherine Ndungo - BOOK
- Understanding Gender and Identity Through The Gender Dictionary
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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.
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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'Tara' by Asmita Play Group
Yesterday I watched 'Tara', a play of Mahesh Dattani, played by Asmita Play Group (http://literarism.blogspot.in/2011/11/tara-mahesh-dattani.html), which leaves some important questions on gender and other issues. The play is framed with a medical complication of new born twins (it's a rare case and survival rate is very low) and 'double life' of family members about twin boy and girl. There was question of survival of important organs in girl and mother has taken a different stand altogether but later on she has realised her mistake. She became disturb due to her wrong decision about medical reality and her biasses for boy. It has taken the family in distress situation and lots of confusion about parent's believe on their kids vibrates the story.
The play leaves many questions on gender perspective which was raised in this story-
How a mother is insensitive about her girl child?
How a father is bias for his boy child and treats him differently?
How a girl child has different believe about her father which was changed in the last after knowing the harsh reality about her life and stands of her mother?
The boy child is highly sensitive and always support his twin sister, despite of different stand of family members. It puts a question that how society is framing the gender bias opinion about boy and girl. This kind of views leaves the family in distress situation.
It will be good for those readers and viewers to read/watch this play who are involved in gender evaluation.
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Permalink Reply by Rituu B Nanda on
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Thank you for posting. In my experience we have to work with everyone to internalise gender and equity. Its beyond the male and female debate.
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Permalink Reply by Rukmini Panda on
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Thanks for posting.
Actually, the cultural norms, ideas and beliefs are internalized both by men and women. Being a mother when a woman is taking any decision, that is shaped by her patriarchal structural mindset, not by being a mother. Hence, there is definitely need to engage with the ideologies which creates division.
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