 Engendering Policies and Programmes through Feminist Evaluation: Opportunities and InsightsKatherine Hay Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 2012, vol. 19, issue 2, 321-340 Abstract: This article examines how feminist theory and practice is influencing the framing, methods and conduct of evaluation in India. It examines several sets of evaluation efforts and experiences and explores how feminist grounding and theory plays out in evaluation practice. Documenting and analysing experiences, perspectives and ideas from practice, the article aims at connecting them to emerging developments in evaluation and feminist theory. The article argues that in a broader context of development evaluation that privileges certain methods and approaches—feminist evaluators need stronger language for demonstrating and speaking to the strengths, rigour, validity (and limitations) of the approaches they are using. The argument is that in the context of persistent gender inequities, feminist evaluation must play a stronger role in understanding how societies change and what policies and programmes show promise in shifting norms and inequities. Keywords: Feminist evaluation; gender evaluation; equity focused evaluation; feminist evaluator; stages of evaluation; evaluation theory; engendering policy (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:indgen:v:19:y:2012:i:2:p:321-340 DOI: 10.1177/097152151201900208 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Indian Journal of Gender Studies from Centre for Women's Development Studies |
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