In celebration of International Women’s Day, the Global Evaluation Initiative (GEI) proudly presents the innovative tools developed by the six recipients of the Feminist Innovation in Monitoring and Evaluation (FIME) Small Awards. The FIME awardees created these resources as part of projects funded through FIME, an initiative led by GEI, together with EvalGender+, and funded by Global Affairs Canada.
Each awardee developed a practical, context-specific tool grounded in feminist principles. Together, their work aims to advance gender equality and social justice in evaluation practice while contributing to broader conversations on power, participation, decolonization, and justice.
On March 31, the awardees will present their innovations:
1. Feminist Evaluation Toolkit for Crisis Contexts by Rai Sengupta (India)
This toolkit offers methods, checklists, and adaptable templates to help evaluators apply feminist approaches in humanitarian settings.
2. Feminist Participatory M&E Toolkit for the Relocation of Maasai Women by Neema Nnko (Tanzania)
Inspired by the lived experiences of Maasai women relocated from Ngorongoro to Handeni in Tanzania, this toolkit brings feminist participatory approaches into the evaluation of relocation programs.
3. The Phoenix Metric Gender-Sensitive Social Return on Investment (G-SROI) Framework by Taieba Hosne (Bangladesh)
The G-SROI Framework introduces a new way to measure social impact that centers women’s lived experiences and identifies both the positive and negative effects of programs.
4. Adaptive Toolkit for Living Projects by Aidai Algozhoeva and Jazgul Ibraimova (Kyrgyzstan)
Drawing on feminist and decolonial perspectives, this toolkit helps teams explore how social projects evolve over time and how communities experience change, encouraging reflection, learning, and collective decision-making.
5. Tools to Evaluate and Strengthen Gender Policies from a Feminist Perspective by Lisette Zambrano (Ecuador)
In contexts where strong commitments to gender equality exist but clear methods for measuring impact are lacking, this toolkit offers training materials, methodological guides, and tools for developing gender-sensitive indicators.
6. Holistic Transformative Evaluator Framework by Mahesh Krishnan Ramesh (India)
This framework presents a new model for strengthening gender-responsive evaluator training by integrating technical expertise with relational, intuitive, and contextual competencies to help evaluators navigate complex, culturally diverse systems.
Join GEI's upcoming webinar to explore how you can use these tools to help advance gender equality and social justice in your work.