Tools, methods, manuals | CGIAR Gender Platform

Forest

Method

A gender-responsive approach to climate-smart agriculture

A woman and man laugh together outside next to crops and trees

Manual

Step-by-step process to mainstream gender in climate-smart agricultural initiatives in Guatemala

Women talking in shade near trees; one holds a baby

Manual

How-to: Design of gender transformative smallholder agriculture adaptation programmes

Women surround another woman with a bowl of groundnut standing next to a green machine as she places groundnut into the hopper

Method

Caisses de résilience (CdR): Increasing African communities’ resilience with integrated, grassroots mechanisms

CIAT’s “Climate-smart soil protection and rehabilitation in Benin, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, India and Kenya” project

Method

Gender Empowerment Index for climate-smart villages

Women farmers walk across a field in front of a blackened rainy sky

Method

Mapping the location of high numbers of women farmers and climate risks for focusing development

A woman looking at the camera sits in a building reading a book that says 'visitors book'

Method

Gender Action Learning System (GALS)

A smiling woman stands in her banana plantation holding green bananas in her hands

Tool

Rapid Rural Appraisal

Woman hand sifting flour into a pot as another stirs with neighbors surrounding in a village outside of Lilongwe, Malawi

Tool

Self-evaluation and Holistic Assessment of Climate Resilience of Famers and Pastoralists (SHARP)

Women farmers work a green leafy field with hoes on a cloudy and sunny day in Rwanda

Tool

Climate change and food security vulnerability assessment toolkit

A women bends down to tend her goats next to water

Manual

APEC case studies of best practices in agriculture and fisheries

Forest

Tool

Payment for forest environmental services (PFES) policy learning tool: A case study from Vietnam

Workshop with women of the community, Peru

Tool

Community mobilization measure (CMM)

Female farmer irrigating her crops

Tool

Relative Autonomy Index (RAI)

District field officer talks to a group of women

Tool

General Collective Efficacy Scale: Assessing local collective efficacy and its contributors

Woman wheat farmer in Rajbari District, Bangladesh.

Tool

The Ladder of Life: Exploring locals’ perceptions of poverty and its trends

Boys outside with buckets of water.

Manual

Social Analysis and Action Global Implementation Manual: exploring gender beliefs in communities

Askale Lombamo and husband Abamo Lombamo in their garden in Doyogena District, Ethiopia

Manual

Community Conversations: leading communities to talk about women in farmers’ organizations

Purse seine fishermen fish for squid and cuttlefish in Vietnam.

Manual

Helping men and boys in aquatic agricultural systems think about harmful gender norms

Woman in a field

Manual

Making sense of ‘intersectionality’: A manual for lovers of people and forests

Livestock vaccination

Method

Community conversations: a community-based approach to transform gender relations and reduce zoonotic disease risks

A farmer in her Cassava plantation

Toolkit

Toolbox for working with root, tuber and banana seed systems

Farmers

Tool

Gender-responsive project implementation

Photo: Mokhamad Edliadi/CIFOR

Toolkit

GENNOVATE: a global research initiative focusing on gender norms

Woman working the land in Congo

Framework

Land tenure security for women: A conceptual framework

Woman with cabbage and solar irrigation in Zimbabwe

Tool

Gender in Irrigation Learning and Improvement Tool (GILIT)

A man and a woman carrying vegetables

Method

Gender transformative approaches to overcome constraining gender norms

Group of women

Framework

Reach-Benefit-Empower-Transform (RBET) Framework