Feminist evaluation in the international development context

This chapter reviews U.S. and other Western researchers' treatment of issues affecting women in evaluations of the impacts of international development assistance. In most cases, the evaluations do not adopt a specifically feminist approach but rather a women‐in‐development (WID) or, more recently, a gender approach. The authors discuss the extent to which these approaches address feminist research concerns and how a more explicitly feminist approach could strengthen the evaluation design.