The CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research hosted and organized the webinar ‘Power through’: A new concept in the empowerment discourse‘ on November 27th, 2.00-3.30pm CET. The webinar is organized in collaboration with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). REGISTER FOR THIS WEBINAR Webinar recording and presentation slides Webinar recording To access the recording, click on this link and enter…
CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research is pleased to mark the International Day of Rural Women – October 15th – by sharing recent and compelling gender research from across CGIAR. A video by the CGIAR System Management Office offers us a welcoming glimpse of the rationale behind and diversity of system-wide gender research. international day of rural women 2019 by CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender…
Welcome to the eleventh issue of the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research’s quarterly newsletter! Rhiannon Pyburn, Coordinator of the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research, introduces us to the latest and greatest news from CGIAR gender research over the past three months! ‘The Pulse‘ features Marlène Elias, Gender Research Coordinator for the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and…
What is on the minds of leading CGIAR researchers as they integrate gender perspectives in pursuit of system-wide objectives? Gender inequality is a wicked problem. Its roots are deep and it is embedded in formal and informal institutions – in ideologies, policies, and markets – across sectors and scales. It is context- and culture-specific, so it is manifested through and affects…
By Rose Otieno Ochieng, social scientist specialised in gender at NIRAS, Kenya. Gender Action and Learning System (GALS) is a community-led household methodology that aims to give women and men more control over their personal, household, community and organisational development. It comprises role playing and visual tools to help farmers plan their lives and sustainable livelihoods. GALS is most often…
Since 2018, the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research and the CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture have been collaborating out of mutual interest, to identify ways to unlock the ‘big data’ potential of gender research. Some preliminary steps are necessary, however, and one of these is to make the gender data sets ‘findable’ so they can be made…
By Floriane Clément, senior research fellow at Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) and Corey O’Hara, researcher at the International Nutrition Foundation. Introduction Agricultural programs are increasingly measuring women’s empowerment at the household level through standardised tools that can be used across countries and over time. In this blog, we argue that such tools should go beyond agency. Feminist…
By Anika Hannan, monitoring and evaluation specialist at ICF International. Monitoring progress toward achieving global goals such as improving gender equality and women’s empowerment requires developing instruments that measure these constructs. For an abstract concept like ‘women’s empowerment’, any survey instrument must be well understood by both participants and researchers. A team from the Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project, Phase…
In this new publication, Alessandra Galie (ILRI) and Cathy Farnworth (independent) zoom into the relational nature of empowerment. They demonstrate how individual empowerment requires the empowerment and deliberate support of others and find that community judgement and local gender norms determine empowerment outcomes.
During the Seeds of Change conference, we approached several people from the ‘Gender in Agriculture’ crowd to interview them on their work, on their insights about the conference and their outlook on the next frontiers of our field of research. Find an overview of all conference related outputs here. In this very special interview, we are privileged to feature eminent scholar…
