| Term |
Definition |
| Accountability Downward |
The practice of sharing findings and reports with communities and participants before or alongside reporting to donors. |
| Decolonization |
Challenging the assumption that knowledge and methods from Western institutions are automatically superior or “correct.” |
| Extractive |
An evaluation pattern where communities provide data but never see the findings or benefit from the knowledge generated. |
| Feminist Evaluation (FE) |
An approach that examines power relations and generates knowledge to advance equality, social justice, and human rights. |
| Feminist Foreign Policy |
When a government’s international aid and diplomacy decisions prioritize gender equality as a lens for every decision. |
| FMEAL |
Feminist Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning; a framework that examines power throughout a program’s entire cycle. |
| Intersectionality |
The understanding that barriers are shaped by compounded factors including gender, disability, poverty, and ethnicity. |
| Localization |
Shifting leadership, funding, and decision-making from international organizations toward local and national organizations. |
| SEGs |
Structurally Excluded Groups; women and girls who face compounded barriers to participation beyond gender alone. |
| Socially Constructed |
The idea that standards, forms, and indicators were built by people in a specific context and can therefore be rebuilt or changed. |
| Structural Inequality |
Inequality built into the rules, institutions, or physical realities that people navigate. |
| Systemic Inequality |
Inequality built into the way a system operates, rather than the result of individual failure. |
