Protected: Experiences on the development of the gender annex
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Good practices
Blog posts
Bioversity International’s gender research fellowship programme
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…
Are women-only training sessions more effective than mixed-group ones?
Training is a key part of the Stress-Tolerant Rice for Africa and South Asia (STRASA) project. A gender component has been developed to systematically reach women across all of STRASA’s activities through training.
Protected: GRIT Workshop 2016: restricted resources
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On gender and plant breeding
Addressing gender differentiated preferences in development oriented research like plant breeding is vital for ensuring that both poor women and men can be empowered, so that they can benefit tangibly from the adoption and sustained use of CGIAR innovations, resulting in more gender-equitable distribution of food and income.
Related events
Webinar: Design elements for gender-responsive breeding
The CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) and CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research will jointly host the webinar “Design elements for gender-responsive breeding” Thursday 21 September from 4.00 – 5.30PM CEST. Register for the webinar here.
Save the date: Scientific Conference and Capacity Development Workshop
CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research is excited to announce that this year’s “Scientific Conference and Capacity Development Workshop” will take place at KIT, Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam December 5-8 2017.
Webinar: Catalyzing and Measuring Women’s Leadership and Empowerment in African Agricultural Research & Development
AWARD and the Gender Platform co-hosted the webinar “Catalyzing and Measuring Women’s Leadership and Empowerment in African Agricultural Research & Development” Thursday July 13. Click here to access the webinar recording and download the presentations.
Countdown to ANH Academy Week 2017: Learning Lab on Measuring Women’s Empowerment
The Agriculture, Nutrition & Health (ANH) Academy in partnership with the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Nutrition will jointly host the 2nd Agriculture, Nutrition and Health (ANH) Academy week and the 5th Annual Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Nutrition (Nutrition Innovation Lab) Agriculture-Nutrition Scientific Symposium on 9-13 July 2017 in Kathmandu, Nepal. The ANH Academy and the Nutrition…
Webinar: Gender, climate change and agriculture
CAAFS and the Gender Platform co-hosted the webinar “Gender, climate change and agriculture” Thursday June 15. Click here to access the webinar recording and download the presentations.
Resources
Integrating gender into other research areas: challenges and opportunities
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.
Fundamental and role specific competencies
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.
Protected: Financial incentives to encourage buy-in
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Piloting a gender-responsive tool for assessing the poverty impacts of value chain development
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…
EnGendering Data
EnGendering Data is a blog on collecting and analyzing sex-disaggregated data to improve the knowledge base on the role of gender in agriculture and food security, maintained by the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM).