Social Development

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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Catalyst for Change: Empowering Women and Tackling Income Inequality

2021-present, Book/Handbook/Booklet, Convention/Conference/Discussion Paper, Economic Development, Gender, Gender Mainstreaming, Political Development, Social Development / By

This study shows empirically that gender inequality and income inequality are strongly interlinked, even after controlling for standard drivers of income inequality. The study analyzes gender inequality by using and extending the United Nation’s Gender Inequality Index (GII) to cover two decades for almost 140 countries,. The main finding is that an increase in the …

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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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