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 IDH Publication, 2026

Gender-Based Violence (GBV) is not just a social issue, it’s a systemic challenge that undermines agricultural value chains.

In rural and isolated areas, GBV threatens women’s safety, limits their economic participation, and weakens food security. When women cannot work safely, entire communities lose resilience, and businesses lose productivity. Climate resilience strategies that overlook gendered risks leave communities exposed and women vulnerable.

Ending GBV is essential for building equitable, sustainable, and climate-resilient agri-food systems; and it’s not only a human rights imperative, but also central to climate adaptation and economic stability.

The good news? Solutions work. Programs like the Women’s Safety Accelerator Fund (WSAF) demonstrate that addressing GBV can enhance productivity and strengthen workforce morale and brand reputation. Safe, inclusive workplaces aren’t just good ethics, they’re smart business.

Gurmeet Kaur Articles

Luc Barriere-Constantin Article

 This article draws on the experience gained by The Constellation over the past 20 years. It is also a proposal for a new M&E and Learning framework to be adopted and adapted in future projects of all community-focused organisations.

Devaka K.C. Article

Sudeshna Sengupta Chapter in the book "Dialogues on Development edited by Prof Arash Faizli and Prof Amitabh Kundu."

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  • We’re Hiring: National Evaluation Consultant – Bangladesh

UN Women is recruiting a National Evaluation Consultant (Bangladesh) to support the interim evaluation of the Joint Regional EmPower Programme (Phase II).

This is a great opportunity to work closely with the Evaluation Team Leader and contribute to generating credible, gender-responsive evidence that informs decision-making and strengthens programme impact.

📍 Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh (home-based with travel to project locations)
📅 Apply by: 24 February 2026, 5:00 PM
🔗 Apply here: https://lnkd.in/gar4ciRr

If you are passionate about feminist evaluation, gender equality, and rigorous evidence that drives change (or know someone who is) please apply or share within your networks.

  • Seeking Senior Analyst - IPE Global

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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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