Is a feminist approach to monitoring, evaluation, and learning really possible?

Women's Protection and Empowerment

What we measure and the way we measure it has significant impacts on our programming. In this episode, Kelsey Simmons and Michelle Wong, both M&E specialists at IRC, walk us through the meaning of a feminist approach to monitoring, evaluation and learning. They discuss how does that work practically in humanitarian settings and through the project cycle. Resources referenced in the podcast (and a few extras): - We All Count https://weallcount.com/ - Center for Culturally Responsive Evaluation and Assessment https://crea.education.illinois.edu/ - Data Feminism https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/data-feminism - American Evaluation Association Feminist Issues in Evaluation https://comm.eval.org/feministissuesinevaluation/home - Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men - Feminist Evaluation and Research: Theory and Practice. Edited by Sharon Brisolara, Denise Seigart, and Saumitra SenGupta. New York: The Guilford Press, 2014. - Feminist Evaluation: Explorations and Experiences. Edited by Sharon Brisolara and Denise Seigart. New Directions for Evaluation, no. 96, 2002. - Seigart, Denise. “Feminist Evaluation.” By Denise Seigart. Encyclopedia of Evaluation, ed. Sandra Mathison. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2005. - “Feminist Evaluation and Gender Approaches: There’s a Difference?” By Donna R. Podems. Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, 6:14, 2010. - “Capturing changes in women's lives: the experiences of Oxfam Canada in applying feminist evaluation principles to monitoring and evaluation practice.” By Carol Miller and Laura Haylock. Gender & Development, 22:2, 2014.