Capturing Changes in Women's Lives: the Experiences of Oxfam Canada in Applying Feminist Evaluation Principles to Monitoring and Evaluation Practice

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 approach we developed was shaped by the external aid environment with its results orientation, as well as by our aspirations to bring feminist principles to our monitoring and evaluation practice. The article describes our understanding of feminist evaluation and what we believed it offered to strengthen our approach to monitoring and evaluation.