Rohan Shah

Designation: Evaluation Specialist

Rohan provides technical, management and leadership support to ongoing impact evaluations relating to women’s empowerment, livelihoods, nutrition, and immunization. He also leads the reproducibility and replication work under the Transparent, Reproducible and Ethical Evidence (TREE) portfolio at 3ie.

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Innovative study to measure gender norm foundations and change in rural Bangladesh

Vegard Iversen, Bidisha Barooah, Rohan Shah, Amanda Wendt, Adrienne Martin 26 May 2023 blog

Gender norms or shared beliefs about what women and men ought to do in a particular social context determine how they interact with each other. A critical shift away from regressive gender norms is imperative to make progress toward gender equality. But these norms are considered particularly resistant to change and are often the reason behind limited impacts of development programs on gender equality and women’s empowerment.