About us

This Accelerator has a dual mandate: to co-develop impactful, scalable solutions and to drive systemic change within CGIAR and its partners. The Accelerator’s core mission is to lead strategic and innovative research that advances gender equality, opportunities for youth, and social inclusion across CGIAR’s Food, Land and Water Systems’ portfolio.

This Accelerator is designed to comprehensively tackle gender and social equality challenges within food, land and water systems. Through innovative research and evidence-based solutions, scientific policy engagement, partnerships, coalition building, resource curation, and capacity sharing, the Accelerator seeks to create lasting change and to position CGIAR as a global leader in accelerating social equity in food, land and water systems.

Vision

This Accelerator’s vision is a world where gender equality, opportunities for youth, and social inclusion drive transformation toward equitable, sustainable, and resilient food, land and water systems. We envisage a world where all people—regardless of their social position within food, land and water systems—collaboratively design, access and benefit from innovations that strengthen their resilience and enable sustainable food, land and water systems and thriving livelihoods—especially in low- and middle-income countries.

The CGIAR Gender Equality and Inclusion (CGIAR GENDER Accelerator) catalyzes targeted research on gender equality, opportunities for youth, and social inclusion through equitable partnerships with decisionmakers, practitioners, researchers, and civil society to identify solutions to tackle the deep-seated and growing inequalities in food, land and water systems.

The Accelerator drives the agenda of the world’s largest International agricultural research for development ( AR4D) body CGIAR and food, land and water systems research ecosystem toward achieving real impact for diverse groups of women, youth, and socially excluded groups—including Indigenous peoples and local communities, disadvantaged castes, ethnic local communities, and people with disabilities—by placing them and their priorities at the heart of research in CGIAR and food, land and water systems. The Accelerator’s objective is to support the empowerment of these groups as agents of change in food, land and water systems by ensuring that CGIAR co-designs, generates, and delivers workable solutions.