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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

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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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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

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Gender transformative evaluation. The case of MGNREGA in India/ looking for help.

Hello everyone, what a great pleasure to join this beautiful network! My name is Salam Abukhadrah and I'm a PhD candidate researching employment policies and its relation to women’s empowerment at Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (USPC). I would like to do a gender transformative evaluation for the case of MGNREGA in India as part of my research. Even though there has been a lot of great work on this matter, I believe there’s still room to further investigate the issue of gender relations and the theoretical underpinnings of evaluation.  I’m developing an evaluation system that combines elements from institutional labour economics, Post Keynesians economics, and feminist economics. I would really appreciate if anyone can help me reach out people or NGOs in the field who are perhaps already working on the same thing. It can be quite frustrating to deal with the logistics of planning a field trip. Thank you all very much in advance.

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Permalink Reply by Rituu B Nanda on April 8, 2019 at 16:21

Hi  Salam,

See this document 

Sudarshan, M. R., Murthy, K. R., & Chigateri, S. (2016). Engendering Meta-Evaluations: Towards Women's Empowerment.

http://www.isstindia.org/publications/meta_eval.pdf

An excellent piece of work- meta evaluation by Ranjani Murthy.

Warmly,

Rituu

Permalink Reply by Salam Abukhadrah on April 8, 2019 at 16:41

Hello Rituu, 

Thank you for the reference, it's indeed and a great asset to my research. 

Best.

Salam 

Permalink Reply by Rituu B Nanda on April 8, 2019 at 16:22

What kind of NGOs are you looking for? What would you need from them? Thanks

Permalink Reply by Salam Abukhadrah on April 8, 2019 at 17:04

Dear Rituu,

Thank you for the reply. I'm interested in NGOs that have worked with/on nrega and that could help me with the logistics of conducting an evaluation for the program. Ideally, this would be an NGO with focus on gender and research and with whom I can perhaps cooperate with. Or just simply an NGO/anyone that can put me in contact with someone who could help me to carry out the research in India. For example, I know the ISST conducted a similar project in India 'Balancing unpaid care work and paid work: successes, challenges and lessons for women’s economic empowerment programmes and policies’. I hope this answers your question. 

Best,

Salam

Permalink Reply by Ranjani K.Murthy on April 10, 2019 at 12:22

Dear Salam

I did a meta evaluaiton- that Rituu has mentioned a few years back. 

1. As you are combining feminist economics and Keynesian you may like to get in touch with Dr Indira Hirway,  (she may have moved) who looked at MGNREGS. 
Levy Economics Institute of Bard College
Blithewood
Annandale-on-Hudson NY US 12504-5000 
E-mail: indira.hirway@cfda.ac.in 

2. Padmini Swaminathan. I do not have her email, but works on gender and labour issues

Padmini Swaminathan is an Indian feminist economist. She is the current Chairperson of the Centre for Livelihoods at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad

Best

Ranjani

Permalink Reply by Rituu B Nanda on April 10, 2019 at 15:12

Thanks for taking out time and responding to Salam. I appreciate it very much, Ranjani.

Permalink Reply by Salam Abukhadrah on April 16, 2019 at 20:49

I apologise for the late reply. This is really helpful thank you very much I really appreciate it. 

Permalink Reply by Ranjani K.Murthy on June 22, 2019 at 17:35

Dear Salam

Can we chat some time?  Have been trying to contact you. 

Best

Ranjani

Permalink Reply by Salam Abukhadrah on June 23, 2019 at 13:59

Dear Ranjani,

Absolutely! I apologize for the late reply. 

Best,

Salam

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