How evaluations contribute to addressing transformational change towards Gender Equality: focus on agricultural research and rural development
Webinar | Online
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Organized by:
EvalForward
- In partnership with: CGIAR Independent Advisory and Evaluation Service, IFAD Independent Office of Evaluation
About the Event
This session will focus on different approaches that evaluation can use to help uncover changes in processes that influence gender performance and promote gender-transformative results.
Building on the example of the recent thematic evaluation of IFAD’s support to Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (GEWE) and on the evaluation of CGIAR GENDER Platform, the session will address the following questions:
- How can evaluations serve as catalysts for transformation by informing future policies, strategies, and interventions?
- What does gender transformative programming means in practice and how to find the evidence of gender transformative changes?
- How can Feminist evaluation approaches encourage reflective, empowering, collaborative, and participatory processes that actively support social justice agendas?
- How to ensure that the voices of different groups are heard in the evaluation process (concept of intersectionality)?
Building on the example of the recent thematic evaluation of IFAD’s support to Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (GEWE) and on the evaluation of CGIAR GENDER Platform, the session will address the following questions:
- How can evaluations serve as catalysts for transformation by informing future policies, strategies, and interventions?
- What does gender transformative programming means in practice and how to find the evidence of gender transformative changes?
- How can Feminist evaluation approaches encourage reflective, empowering, collaborative, and participatory processes that actively support social justice agendas?
- How to ensure that the voices of different groups are heard in the evaluation process (concept of intersectionality)?
Speakers
| Name | Title | Biography |
|---|---|---|
| Svetlana Negroustoueva | Evaluation Function Lead, CGIAR | Svetlana Negroustoueva leads the Evaluation Function of CGIAR. She has 20+ years managing evaluations in international development contexts with the African Development Bank, the Climate Investment Funds and the Global Environmental Facility; and DFID and USAID. She managed the GENDER Platform evaluation, and leads the development of Gender+ Evaluation Guidelines in CGIAR. She was a co-chair of EvalGender+. |
| Monica Lomena-Gelis | Senior evaluation officer, IFAD | Environmentalist and evaluator with 20+ years of professional experience in development in Latin America and Africa. Before joining IFAD, she worked for several development banks, other UN agencies, NGOs and the private sector. She has been actively engaged in various evaluation networks. |
Moderators
| Name | Title | Biography |
|---|---|---|
| Justine Vanrooyen | Regional Gender Advisor, WFP | For the past 5 years Justine has been supporting twelve country offices in the Southern African region to promote the integration of gender equality and women’s empowerment in the design and implementation of food and nutrition security programmes to achieve zero hunger. Previously she held Research Monitoring and Evaluation and monitoring and evaluation positions. She holds a Master’s in Global Health and honours in Gender studies, and uses her academic experience to inform localised and evidence-based approaches. |