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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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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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✓ Health & SRHR
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✓ Governance & Community Development
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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communicating evaluation to the media
Dear forum members
Allow me to pick your brains on the tricky subject of communicating evaluation to the media. I am keen to find out best practices and innovative ways of pitching evaluation to journalists and editors.
Do you have any experience of contacting the media to promote your events ? If so, what are your thoughts on the best approach, and how did you personally go about it ? Did you contact journalists / editors personally ?
Thanks for your help with this one,
Best regards, Kate
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Permalink Reply by Rituu B Nanda on
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Dear Kate,
Here are some tools which might help in communication of evaluation. https://www.betterevaluation.org/en/blog/communicating-findings
http://stephanieevergreen.com/the-1-3-25-reporting-model/> 's site about
structuring a report for a variety of audiences. Another link to
Ann K Emery about easily transforming a text heavy report into a more reader
friendly format
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Permalink Reply by Yuleidy Merida on -
Hi Kate,
In my experience, media professionals usually work with very tight deadlines, so when we reach out to share our research studies, it's useful to include some key-messages that either align with a trending topic (by adding new information or perspective to debate) or that could potentially be strong/engaging headlines.
I find the use of Cision handy (you can see media contacts working in your field/topic, media platforms that have published more than one article related to your areas of interest and reach out directly to a journalist that may have an interest and some prior knowledge).
To pitch evaluation findings, I will suggest finding one key-message and 2-3 supporting ideas/data, then pitching it to journalists and media platforms that have an interest in the topic.
Nowadays, data journalism is having an impact in the media, and interest in data visualization is growing. This trend is an excellent opportunity for sharing not just headlines, but in-depth research findings. The key is doing very targeted reach out, and probably our audience will be more specialized.
If your evaluation findings include stories, I would suggest framing your reach out in the first person and use your stories to speak about the evaluation results.
There is another strategy that works very often, and it's sending media availability emails. Identify some media platforms/journalists that may be interested in your evaluation findings (topic) and send them a short list of researchers or professionals that could speak about it - this is most effective when we can connect trending topics or international celebrations with the information we are interested in sharing - journalists are often looking for trustworthy information sources.
We can also use Cision, and Social Studio to monitor trends and opinions relevant to our field, so when the opportunity arises, you can effectively leverage the context to support your ideas or research findings (what it means, why is this happening, what are effective ways to deal with this, etc.).
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Permalink Reply by kate stoney on
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Dear Yuleidy,
Thanks so much for your insight. Really helpful. I am not aware of the existence of media software platforms in Africa so you have put me on an interesting track. Also your tips on pitching and media availability lists are very useful.
Best regards, Kate
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