The United Nations’ Women Training Centre organizes an open access webinar on the importance of gender responsive budgeting (GRB) in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals. The webinar is in English and will take place on 15 May 2018 at 8:00 AM New York Time. Click to register!
The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)-led African Chicken Genetic Gains (ACGG) project has released its gender strategy. The document draws attention to the integration of gender into the technical research and the day-to-day development operations of the program in Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Tanzania.
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The overarching goal of Bioversity International’s Gender Research Fellowship Programme was to strengthen the capacity of researchers to conduct participatory gender-responsive research in the field of forest genetic resource use and management. The knowledge generated was intended to contribute to developing conservation and management guidelines that are more equitable and effective in their outcomes. The success of the Programme was…
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The CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research is hosting the webinar ‘Can micronutrient training create women’s demand for high-zinc rice? The case of Bangladesh‘ on Friday October 19 (11am-12.30pm CEST). The webinar is organized in collaboration with the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI). REGISTER FOR THIS WEBINAR Background Zinc is one of the key micronutrients required for children’s adequate growth. In Bangladesh,…
The CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research hosted the webinar ‘Women’s land: Beyond “access” to rights‘ on Friday September 7. The webinar was organized in collaboration with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). Webinar recording Click on the link (left) and enter the password: xE8gqZW7 Presentation Women’s land rights as a pathway to poverty reduction: A framework and review of available evidence from…
By Eileen Nchanji (International Center for Tropical Agriculture, Nairobi, Kenya) After joining the CIAT/PABRA (Center for International Tropical Agriculture/Pan African Bean Alliance), I was on the lookout for collaborations with gender scientists, especially from CGIAR. However, I was not successful. Last month, I received an invitation to attend the third Gender Research and Integrated Training (GRIT) workshop with gender and…
By Eileen Nchanji (International Center for Tropical Agriculture, Nairobi, Kenya), Lilian Nkengla (International Crop Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics, Bamako, Mali) and Susan Ajambo (Bioversity Internationa, Kampala, Uganda). One of the courses we were taught during the Gender Research and Integrated Training (GRIT) workshop focused on intersectionality. As the course went on we realised that the society and institution we…
In the development sector, including water, gender is generally misunderstood as ‘by women and for women.’ Similarly, gender equality can sometimes be perceived as something to be achieved through fixed quota systems in user associations. Conversations about cultural and social structures that privilege ‘masculine’ qualities over ‘feminine’ ones are rarely brought into the equation. The question needs to be asked…
In April 2018, the Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project, Phase 2 (GAAP2), launched the pilot version of the Project-Level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI). Pro-WEAI is a new survey-based index for measuring empowerment, agency, and inclusion of women in the agriculture sector. Click to learn more!
Gender research in CGIAR Research Programs has a dual function: (1) to influence the way a Program plans and conducts its research and (2) to produce gender research that is put into use for development impact.
Designed to guide capacity development and recruitment specifically with CGIAR actors and their functions in mind, these definitions were developed through consultations with experts in CGIAR with responsibility for gender in research.
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Last month, field researchers from three parts of India participated in a training workshop on a new gender-responsive methodology for assessing the poverty impacts of value chain development. The methodology focuses on impacts at the level of both smallholder households and enterprises they are associated with by assessing household and business assets in the form of human, social, natural, physical…
