Why it is imperative to educate women
I just got the incredible chance to join the workforce of Devinsights. My first reaction was “oh great, the office is women-oriented”. I am not demeaning, belittling or disrespecting the men, but I was happy because seeing more women, only reinforced my belief that tomorrow’s world belongs to the women. Just the presence of one […]
Evaluation Methods and Techniques with Children as Respondents
The world is concerned about children’s issues and there is an increasing interest and emphasis on the protection of child rights. Although child rights have been an important area where strong policies are made, robust and evidence-based policymaking through research and evaluations started gaining momentum from the 21st century. Evaluations are pivotal in assessing the […]
Data Analysis as a Salient Step in the Process of Monitoring and Evaluation
Data analysis is one of the most crucial stage in the field of monitoring and evaluation. The main purpose of conducting data analysis is to convert raw data into useable information. Data analysis allows the researchers to interpret and convey the information and findings rationally and logically. It involves the process of understanding and summarising […]
Rules that cannot be ignored about experimental evaluation design
Experimental designs are often considered the ‘gold standard’ of research designs because of the rigorous and robustness that provides. Before we move to understand basic rules of experimental designs, let’s have a look at how it really works and what it really means.Experimental designs consists of treatment and control groups . The researchers that manipulate […]
3 Social Research Methods That You Need to Know Before Starting Your Career as Social Researcher
Author: Manika Tomar, Manager – MLE, DevInsights Choosing social research as a viable career has always been seen with a lot of apprehension in the past. Individuals have always assumed natural sciences to be the rightful way ahead with focus on pragmatic career choices such as medicine, engineering etc. Albeit slowly, with time there has […]
Public Health Research in India
Public health research has gained increasing importance in India’s national health policy and public health domain as the country seeks to mitigate its high burden of disease and it inequitable distribution among the people. In this scenario, the country sets ambitions agenda towards the universalization of healthcare. Although public health research is regarded as one […]
Theory of Change in Evaluation & Monitoring, Research
Theory of change is both a process and a product. At its simplest, theory of change is a dialogue-based process intended to generate a description of a sequence of events that is expected to lead to a particular desired outcome. Theory of change is particularly useful for development research projects that combine research generation with […]
Quasi Experimental Research, Design
The prefix ‘Quasi’ means resembling in Latin. Quasi experimental simply means that it is almost similar to true experiment. Like a true experiment, a quasi-experimental design aims to establish a cause-and-effect relationship between an independent and dependent variable. However, unlike a true experiment, a quasi-experiment does not rely on random assignment. Instead, subjects are assigned to groups based on […]
International Women’s Day 2021 – Contest
As per UNWomen.org report, 2.7 billion women are legally restricted from having the same choice of jobs as men ,as they have long been at the receiving end of biased behaviour. Discrimination against women exists because of stereotypical expectations, behaviours and attitude. Women are underrepresented in leadership roles in Indian corporate scenario. Despite their participation […]
Stereotypes and Biases in Appointing Women Leaders in Indian Corporate
The plight of women from confined cages to public stages had been long. It is the 21st century, yet we cannot say that women are independent to make their own life choices. Women had been efficient managers of the household for generations without acknowledgments. Education, various evolutions, feminism all had an important role in […]