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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

    Publisher: Bleeding Ink Scribes

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

  • Economy and Inequality

    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.

Vacancies

INCLUDOVATE -  Call for Researchers, Pacific Focus

About the job

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:
📍 Papua New Guinea
📍 Solomon Islands
📍 Vanuatu
📍 Timor-Leste
📍 Fiji
📍 Samoa
📍 Tonga
📍 Indonesia
📍 Australia
and across the wider Pacific region.

We welcome expertise in:
✓ Research, Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning
✓ Gender Equality & Social Inclusion
✓ Health & SRHR
✓ Disability Inclusion
✓ Youth Development
✓ Climate & Environment
✓ WASH
✓ Market Systems Development
✓ 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.

🔗 Register here: https://lnkd.in/eyF66S7H

Experience of being a member of Gender and Evaluation Community

Dear All,

I am Monika Banerjee working as a Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Studies Trust (ISST), New Delhi. I am currently trying to compile the Annual Report of ISST for the year 2020-21.

As you know that this online platform on Gender and Evaluation is being hosted by ISST since 2013 and we at ISST are extremely happy to see the way your participation is constantly strengthening this platform year after year.

This year for the annual report, we thought of including some reflections on the experiences of being part of this large family. It will also give us an understanding of areas where gains are visible and those where more work is required. Therefore, I request you to kindly help us in posting some of your reflections in terms of your experiences of being a member of this gender and eval online community.

We would like to know what has been your experience till date of being a member of this online community and in what way has it helped your work and career.

Hoping to hear from you all soon.

warm regards,

Monika

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This is nearly one month since my registration in Gender and Evaluation. I like to follow the works of other and I hope I can get some insights for my project which deals with women and public space in different urban cultural contexts. 

All you the best,

Hooshmand Alizadeh

Dear Monika,

In brief--and could expand if desired in separate email:

I had worked 3 years in the improvement and delivery of social services and governance in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan. Working with women was difficult in the more culturally conservative areas. As Manager of 50 local staff, I insisted that we do no work in any community wherein we were not welcomed not only by the women, but also by the decision-makers and influencers. This then necessitated trust building in various ways. For me, this also meant approaching mullahs to explain why we were available, how we work, what are the limits of what we can do and who or what kind of resource person from our project would be likely to interface with the women. It was an unusual move, but successful in the end with mullahs, in at least a couple of communities wherein the religious leaders even suggested to women that attendance in particular programmes would be beneficial. A corollary to this was that I was invited several times to meet with these mullahs and the continuing dialogue aloowed us to learn more of each other and strengthen mutual trust.

this platform has always given us food for thought. the questions and work done by others when shared are many a times adding to areas of interest to deep dive and study it more. it really adds to your intellectual yourself. Great going! my best wishes for the platform.

Dear Monika,thank you for the good work in establishing and strengthening this online platform.Regarding my contribution to the community,nothing.But the resources you are sharing online are useful. In the future, I will try to contribute. Anyway, keep up the good work.
Thank you very much& regards,
Nigussie

As a new evaluator, I feel very lucky to have found this community while interning at UNDP in Bangkok this summer. It is precisely in my area of interest and expertise and I am constantly learning about opportunities through this site. The fact that this community is free to participate in is incredibly valuable to me as a graduate student. Although I pay for subscriptions to other evaluation communities, this is truly the one where I find the best professional development. I have participated in webinars and in-person events and look forward to continuing involvement with this group of professionals in the field from around the world.

Thank You for the material You share online, for the online events allowing us to participate and connecting us face -to-face on the international conferences .

Dear All,

Meeting you  on this platform and learning from you through the discussion we have  had has enriched  my competencies in gender evaluation. My challenge has been with the webinars because of the time differences.

Thank you

Dear Monika,

Thank you for given us the opprtunity to speak of what think if the platform. For me it has a great importance as it connects people, expert or aspirants in gender and evaluation. Webinars and other onlines activities add value to the members' knowledge. Sharing informations on National Evaluation Societies or associations is part of capacity building activites together with online or face to face trainings. 

As members we should vote more time to take advantage of the plateform more than we do know.

Hi Monika, 

I am based in Delhi, India. This platform helps me learn a lot. I look for new  information,  knowledge, methods, approaches, strategies  and practices in the area of gender evaluation and try to learn from other's work. This is a great platform for that and I try following discussions as much as possible. I am not a very active member or great contributer, though.

Thank you so much.

Sindhu

The experience has been productive for me. I have had the opportunity to learn from others and also to share my knowledge, experience and results of my work.

Its through being a member of this community that I was able to meet other colleagues physically in Greece during theEES conference after Rituu Nanda took the initiative to search for us all and made sure we get to know each other. Thank you Rituu.

The resources generously shared, have also been of great help professionally.

Very grateful to this community for the willingness to connect, assist, and advice on a research project/journalism trip to Kabul this summer. Got great feedback and an openness from community members to share advice!

 Reply by Prakash Kumar yesterday 

It is really great platform to understand contemporary issue and challenges of evaluation and also sharing workshops, conferences, and opportunities as well.

Thanks

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