Case Study

Abusive supervision: A systematic review and fundamental rethink

2021-present, Book/Handbook/Booklet, Case Study, Cultural Development, Economic Development, Gender, Political Development, Social Development / By

Abusive supervision is conceptualized in a confused manner that conflates followers’ subjective evaluations of abuse with leaders’ behaviors. It is how conceptual confusion is reflected in and undermines dominant measurement tools. They identify and critique overreliance on cross-sectional survey-based studies and vignette experiments, which vary considerably in the extent to which they can evidence causal …

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Capturing changes in women’s lives: the experiences of Oxfam Canada in applying feminist evaluation principles to monitoring and evaluation practice

2021-present, Case Study, Cultural Development, Economic Development, Gender, Newspaper Article/Feature, Political Development, Social Development / By

This article describes Oxfam Canada’s efforts to develop a mixed-methods approach to monitoring, evaluation, and learning rooted in feminist evaluation principles, for Engendering Change, a multi-year, donor co-funded ‘standalone’ women’s rights programme. The article describes our understanding of feminist evaluation and what we believed it offered to strengthen our approach to monitoring and evaluation. Asset …

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Capitalizing on Women’s Social Capital?: Women-Targeted Microfinance in Bolivia

2021-present, Case Study, Countries and Regions, Cultural Development, Economic Development, Newspaper Article/Feature, Political Development, Social Development / By

This article examines the construction of social capital and its relationship to income generation, based on a long-term ethnographic study of village life in rural Bolivia and the microfinance institution operating there. The author examines the complexity and gendered contradictions implied in the way that social capital is generally viewed to support economic development. Asset …

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