Navigating power and accountability in evaluation: Learning from Feminist Approaches
Panel Discussion | Online
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Organized by:
GenderSphere Pvt Ltd.
About the Event
Evaluation processes are laden with power dynamics that stem from the prioritisation of 'objective' and 'scientific' designs, often guided by funding decisions. This roundtable will discuss decolonisation practices informed by experiences of conducting feminist evaluations from the global south. It will examine scientific rigour through the lens of contextual and grounded approaches of gender-transformative evaluations. The discussion will elaborate on participatory methodologies that capture contextual voices ethically with methodological rigour.
Speakers
| Name | Title | Biography |
|---|---|---|
| Laura Porini | Laura Porrini integrates the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) area of the Leading from the South Consortium, serving also as the MEL Specialist at Fondo de Mujeres del Sur. She holds a Master's degree in Administration, Development and Planning, from the University of Bristol, United Kingdom (Chevening scholar), and has a degree in Political Science. Laura has extensive experience conducting MEL-focused consultations for national and international organizations such as the Multilateral Investment Fund managed by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB-MIF), the International Labour Organization (ILO), among others. Her teaching and research experience focuses on the evaluating public policies, programs, and projects. Additionally, she has co-produced various publications, including the "Evaluation Management Manual" (published in the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation - AECID). | |
| Dr Shraddha Chigateri | Dr Shraddha Chigateri is a feminist researcher and evaluator with over 20 years of experience in Asia and the Pacific region. Since 2019, she has worked independently and as a consultant with Gender at Work Consulting India, now GenderSphere, to carry out research and evaluations for feminist networks, funds and organisations. She is currently engaged in a long-term project of reviewing the MEL systems for a large membership-led feminist network in the region. | |
| Asmita Basu | Asmita Basu is a gender and human rights expert with over 25 years of experience in research, campaigns, evaluation and capacity development in complex contexts. She has extensive experience as both an implementer and evaluator of programs in complex and fragile environments, particularly in Asia and South Asia. As a senior consultant with Gender at Work Consulting (now GenderSphere), she has led evaluations for feminist networks, focusing on participatory and contextually driven methodologies. |
Moderators
| Name | Title | Biography |
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| Amrita Gupta | Moderator | Amrita Gupta brings 18 years of experience in mixed method research, monitoring and evaluation, and policy review. As a research and evaluation consultant she is proficient in gender-transformative methodologies for evaluation, participatory feminist methodologies like User Focused Evaluation, Outcome Harvesting. She is a core team member of Gender & Equity Network South Asia (GENSA), a member of the Evaluation Community of India (ECOI) and an Alumnus of IPDET (2024). Currently as a Development Research and Evaluation Consultant she is co-leading a multi-country evaluation on care policy with Gender Sphere, evaluation of a feminist youth leadership program with GenderAtWork and evaluation of training of women frontline workers as part of ISST India. |