The African Chicken Genetic Gains (ACGG) program has developed a program-level gender strategy implementation plan structured in line with the five action areas of ACGG’s gender strategy. It identifies key activities and also the roles and responsibilities of ACGG staff in each of the three program countries—Ethiopia, Nigeria and Tanzania.
Gender is often interpreted in simplistic and binary ways, which has prevented a deeper and more meaningful analysis of how power relations operate to situate women and men in different forested landscapes; why certain individuals and groups are, or remain, marginalized; and what role research can play in promoting gender and social justice. This manual aims to introduce ‘intersectionality’ to researchers…
UN Women’s new flagship report provides a comprehensive and authoritative assessment of progress, gaps and challenges in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) from a gender perspective. The report demonstrates the importance of gender equality for all 17 SDGs and argues for an integrated and rights-based approach to implementation. It monitors global and regional trends in achieving the SDGs for women and…
This paper is a revised version of the document “Proposed Actions to Speed Up Gender Research Mainstreaming in CGIAR” discussed at FC10 in November, 2013 and provisionally approved there. This section addresses the request in the Minutes of the Fund Council Meeting for the Consortium to provide “a plan which offers clarity on how gender equality will be captured in…
In order to monitorprogress of CGIAR on its agreed outcome of “Increased control over resources and participation in decision-making by women and other marginalized groups” as well as other development outcomes such asimprovements in income, productivity, nutrition, and resilience, CGIAR researchers are increasingly asked to collect sex-disaggregated data and conduct gender analyses. This document spells out some simple and achievable…
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.
First prepared by the CGIAR Gender and Agriculture Research Network, and updated in June 2015, this is guidance document for CGIAR Science Leaders and Gender Researchers on planning and integrating gender into CRP budgeting and reporting. The definitions provided and referred to comes from CGIAR Gender Scoping Study (2010), which used the following definitions that have also been incorporated into…
