CGIAR Research Programs - Gender Strategies

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Building gender research expertise: CGIAR's gender postdoctoral fellowship program
(Brief, 2017) Karlsson, Kristofer; Russell, Nathan
Gender connections: A role for communications, knowledge sharing, and data and information management
(Brief, 2017) Staiger Rivas, Simone; Mascarenhas, Martina; Mwanzia, Leroy
Mainstreaming gender in CGIAR research: 2012-2016. An overview
(Brief, 2017) Karlsson, Kristofer; Russell, Nathan
From awareness to action: Knowledge sharing for more gender-responsive animal and plant breeding
(Brief, 2017) Mascarenhas, Martina; Ashby, Jacqueline A.
CCAFS Gender and Social Inclusion Strategy
(Report, 2017-05-22) Huyer, Sophia; Campbell, Bruce M.; Hill, Catherine; Vermeulen, Sonja J.
CGIAR Gender Research Action Plan Brief Series: An overview
(Brief, 2017-04-27) CGIAR Gender and Agriculture Research Network
CGIAR Gender Research Action Plan - Brief Series The four briefs in this series provide a final report of the activities, achievements and lessons learned in the Gender Research Action Plan. These briefs are intended to (1) provide an overview of activities, achievements, lessons learned and opportunities in key areas, (2) provide support and resources for members of the network to more rapidly implement collaborative work in Phase II of the CRPs, and (3) facilitate members’ knowledge sharing, given different levels and types of gender expertise, through more effective and accessible mechanisms for cross-learning and good practice exchanges via the Gender Network. These briefs were prepared for the CGIAR Gender and Agriculture Research Network by the CGIAR Gender Network Coordination Team at the CGIAR System Management Office with support from the knowledge sharing support team of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT).
CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) Gender Strategy
(Internal Document, 2014-07-03) CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems
WLE’s Gender Strategy sets out a path for the program to engage in pioneering research that generates findings and catalyzes action to address the gender-based challenges facing women and men, who are dependent on water, land and ecosystems for their livelihoods, food, nutrition and water security, and incomes. The strategy starts out and tests the hypothesis that gender equity promotes sustainable agriculture in vibrant ecosystems. It then builds on work undertaken within the CGIAR system and elsewhere, by applying cutting-edge gender equality and women’s empowerment frameworks, and innovative research approaches and methods. Knowledge generated will improve WLE interventions at the policy, programming and community implementation levels.
CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish - Gender strategy
(Internal Document, 2013-04-12) CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish
Increased consumption of milk, meat, fish and eggs by the poor, and particularly by children, is a means of preventing under-nutrition and achieving nutritional security, with concomitant benefits to consumers’ health and productivity. Increased smallholder production of fish and livestock products to fulfill increasing demand is a means through which to improve the income and livelihood security of smallholder producers and other actors along the value chain. To increase production, the productivity, equity and inclusiveness of livestock and aquaculture value chains need to improve, informed by careful analysis of bottlenecks at micro, meso and macro levels and research and action to address these constraints. Given both women’s existing levels of participation in these chains and the constraints under which they participate, understanding and responding appropriately to the social and economic contexts within which women engage in livestock and aquaculture production, processing and/or sales are central to achieving the CRP’s goals of poverty reduction and food and nutrition security. As such, CRP 3.7’s gender strategy includes approaches that start from a careful understanding of these contexts, and either 1) work within these contexts to improve how women are included, or 2) seek to improve the equity of the social and institutional environments in which value chains function to enhance the range and quality of choices and outcomes poor women and men have within them. As such the strategy operates along a continuum of gender integration approaches, from the accommodating to the transformative, and will contribute to understanding under what conditions each approach has the potential to advance chain performance and the outcomes of poor women and other marginalized groups.
CGIAR Research Program on Rice (GRiSP) - Gender Strategy
(Internal Document, 2013-10-11) CGIAR Research Program on Rice
At the end of 2012, GRiSP initiated a process to review and revise its gender strategy. The main purpose is to strengthen its effectiveness by establishing a results-based performance system in line with the overall recommendations included in the CGIAR "Strategy and Results Framework Action Plan" which was approved by the CGIAR Fund Council October 2012. GRiSP’s revised gender strategy will be based on a solid impact pathway and theory of change on how ‘empowerment’ of women in the agricultural research for development (AR4D) arena and in the rice value chain (women farmers, post harvest operators, processors) accelerates the delivery of GRiSP’s intermediate development outcomes and thus contributes to the delivery of the CGIAR system level outcomes.
CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) - Gender Strategy
(Internal Document, 2013-04-14) CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas
The CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) has developed a multi-faceted gender strategy that will be woven through its research and development portfolio during the first three-year phase of the program and beyond. The strategy has been developed over several months and is based on extensive consultations with a wide range of stakeholders. The overall objective of the Program is to improve food security and reduce poverty while strengthening gender equality. For this to happen, all farmers, both men and women, must be able to benefit from science and technology interventions leading to positive development outcomes.
CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions and Markets - Gender Strategy
(Internal Document, 2013-02) CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets
Farmers and other rural actors are not homogeneous. Particularly in the developing world, their abilities to initiate and expand agricultural activities are frequently shaped by gender roles, responsibilities, and resources. Reducing gender disparities has been widely recognized as a critical issue in agriculture and rural development. [...] Because gender roles affect decisions on both production and consumption, research must clarify how they do so in specific contexts. CRP-PIM supports research that facilitates: Improved policies to accelerate adoption of sustainable technologies by small-scale producers; Better allocation and effectiveness of public and private investment; Improved macroeconomic, trade, and sectoral policies; Governance and collective action to improve access for the rural poor and women to services and property; Better performance of markets to benefit producers and consumers; and Integration of small-scale producers into value chains.
CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health - Gender Strategy
(Internal Document, 2012-11) CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health
Both men and women have important roles in achieving good health and nutrition. Men and women work together on family farms and in the labor market to earn income to buy food and other goods and services for their families. In addition to their roles as agricultural producers and income earners, women are more likely to be caregivers and food providers within their families throughout much of the world, and thus are considered the guardians of household food security and nutrition. At the same time, economic and cultural factors, including gender roles: the socially-determined relationships between women and men: limit women and girls from actively participating in economic activities that may improve their status and the household’s well-being, and decision-making related to food purchases and allocation that may improve their nutritional status. Biological factors increase women and girls’ risk of experiencing micronutrient malnutrition and poor health, especially during their reproductive years. Adolescent girls in particular may be vulnerable owing to their youth and low social status in many societies, placing them at risk for early marriage or risky sexual behavior during a critical period for investment in their own human capital. Men face their own unique set of social and biological risks to attaining good health and nutrition. Gender roles in agriculture influence the difference occupational hazards men and women face: for example research from ILRI shows men are often more involved in slaughtering large animals and women in cleaning waste and caring for sick animals. To create synergies and impacts that are greater than the sum of the individual sectors (agriculture, nutrition, and health); there is a need to account for gender issues. It is not enough to focus on women as key to food and nutrition security; they must also be viewed in the context of their relationships with men, being influenced by, and also influencing, men. Therefore, this gender strategy sets out the ways to ensure gender is integrated into CGIAR Research Program No. 4: Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH).
CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry - Gender Strategy
(Internal Document, 2013-01-01) CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry
Social attributes such as gender, wealth, age, ethnicity, migration status and religion can confer systematic disadvantages by making it difficult for some groups and individuals to access public and private mechanisms of resource allocation or decision making. In this strategy, we set out possibilities for strengthening how we address gender concerns in the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (CRP6).
CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems - Gender Strategy
(Internal Document, 2012-12-01) CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems
In many rural communities living along the rivers and coasts of Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Pacific, poverty is deeply entrenched and malnutrition widespread. Many of these poor households are highly vulnerable to changing climate, sea level rise and broader environmental change. Some 250 million people live on less than US$ 1.25/day, roughly one quarter of the 1 billion rural poor generally described as having been left behind by the Green Revolution’s combination of improved seeds, fertilizer and access to markets.
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) - Gender Strategy
(Internal Document, 2013-02-01) CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) is a 10-year strategic partnership of the CGIAR Consortium and the Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP), CCAFS also partners with all 15 CGIAR Centers and intersects with the other CGIAR Research Programs (“CRPs”). CCAFS brings together researchers in agricultural science, development research, climate science, and Earth System science, to address the need for evidence-based research and communications to bring clarity to the complex trade-offs that exist between food security, development, and climate action.

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