Tools, methods, manuals | CGIAR GENDER Impact Platform

Market and Value chains

Framework

Challenging chains to change

aquaculture

Manual

Measuring women's economic empowerment in private sector development

Market place

Manual

Gender mainstreaming in value chain development

Rice harvesting

Tool

A toolkit for unpacking gender dynamics of migration in rice-based agricultural systems in South Asia

A sweet potato farmer

Toolkit

Gender in value chains

Bean farmers

Framework

Behavior Change Perspectives on Gender and Value Chain Development

The woman writing data on her data entry book in Jessore, Bangladesh.

Tool

Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women (MDD-W): A Guide to Measurement

Women discuss food and nutrition during a meeting

Tool

Women’s Empowerment in Nutrition (WEN) Grid

Women discuss food and nutrition during a meeting

Tool

Women's Empowerment in Nutrition Index (WENI)

Merchants of Lok Baintan Floating Market on the Tabuk River, Indonesia

Method

Gender-responsive LINK methodology: analyzing and improving links between producers and buyers

Women farmers shelling hybrid maize in Nepal

Tool

Assessing whether agricultural technologies can change gender dynamics and food security

Women farmers use a mini tiller for direct seeding maize during field day in Nepal

Tool

Gender in Agricultural Mechanization: key guiding questions from design to impact

Savings group in Nigeria

Manual

Journeys of Transformation: A training manual for engaging men as allies in women’s economic empowerment

Testing rice varieties, Vietnam

Method

Developing participatory agro-climate advisories

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

A young girl carries forage for livestock of greenery on a basked on her back

Manual

Including gender in design of monitoring and evaluation

Women smiling in traditional Nepalese dress

Method

Mapping hotspots for agriculture, climate risks and poverty to reduce women’s labor drudgery

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)

Women's hands place money into a shared savings box made of wood on a floor covered in blankets

Tool

Multidimensional Poverty Assessment Tool (MPAT)

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

Members of the Kyamaleera Woman’s Handicraft Association crowd around a basket of colourful beans. 15 varieties of seeds were introduced to farmers in Hoima, north-western Uganda, each with different properties: drought resilience; disease tolerance; high iron.

Manual

Climate Vulnerability and Capacity Analysis handbook

A women bends down to tend her goats next to water

Manual

APEC case studies of best practices in agriculture and fisheries

Cassava farmers

Method

Weighted gender control index (WGCI)