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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.

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How is (evaluative) knowledge around Gender constructed and used/utilized ...

Dear all I’m finalizing an article about the use of evaluative meta-theory to improve gender programming. I’m particularly interested in knowing:

  • How in our field (evaluative) knowledge around gender is constructed (dominating stances, methodologies etc..)
  • How constructed knowledge is then used/utilized to improve gender programming. Here I’m particularly interested in listing all major platforms (virtual or physical) globally / but also regionally ( Africa being the focus here) where Gender/Feminist Evaluation (Trainings, Evaluative Results, Fora) is discussed.

I know about virtual platforms such as https://gendereval.ning.com/ , www.feministevaluation.org or the UNWOMEN website, are there more platforms of practitioners /gender policy makers? Physical platforms /events?

The deadline for the article is this Friday, hence any hint/information would be greatly appreciated, Huge  thanks in advance

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Permalink Reply by Eileen McGinn on February 25, 2016 at 0:20

Issues for SDGs: women and girls with disabilities:

Women Enabled International: womenenabled.org

International Network of Women With Disabilities: inwwd.wordpress.com

Women Enabled will be at the CSW in March

Permalink Reply by Anne Nathalie Manga-BADJI on February 27, 2016 at 21:41

 I was busy doing on the article hence the late reply. I did know about AWID but not about the others, very interesting ressources. They are referenced, Thanks Ranjani,

Permalink Reply by Anne Nathalie Manga-BADJI on February 27, 2016 at 21:43

Thank you Eileen

Permalink Reply by Ranjani K.Murthy on February 25, 2016 at 11:29

Dear Anne

Interesting question

You may like to look at:

AWID website

IWRAW Global and Asia pacific which has interesting posts on substantive and formal eduality

BRIDGE, IDS

DAWN

Best regards

Ranjani

 

Permalink Reply by Yvette Abrahams on February 28, 2016 at 15:32

Sorry Anne for my late response I have been travelling. But I have some papers on my blog: www.khoelife.com 

In particular the one headed"the Epistemology of intersectionality" would be of use to you. Best, Yvette

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