Mainstreaming gender in agricultural R&D

Mainstreaming a gender perspective is the process of assessing the implications for women and men of any planned action, including legislation, policies or programmes in all areas and at all levels. It is a strategy for making women's as well as men's concerns and experiences an integral dimension of teh design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies and programmes in all political, economic and societal spheres so that women and men benefit equally and inequality is not perpetuated

New strategic platform

In an ever-changing world, each and every entity must continue to develop and adapt to its external environment and the demands placed upon it. The PRGA Program is no exception. In recent years, the CGIAR has encouraged a gradual approach of learning and change through rolling medium-term plans, but once in a while it is necessary to step back and take a look at the bigger picture—and adjust course appropriately. The fi rst full external review of the Program in 2006–2007 and the upcoming transition from Phase II of the Program to Phase III (2007/2008) afforded just that opportunity. The new strategy is a synthesis of discussions that have taken place within the Program’s Advisory Board over the past few years and the recommendations of the external review panel. (This new strategic platform was agreed in outline at the Advisory Board Meeting in February–March 2007.) The new strategy comprises three thematic areas, and fi ve supporting actions for mainstreaming gender research. Impact assessment research is built into the strategy as a cross-cutting activity

CGIAR Systemwide Program on Participatory Research and Gender Analysis for Technology Development and Institutional Innovation

This paper, prepared by the CGIAR Systemwide Program on Participatory Research and Gender Analysis, analyzes the four constraining factors (listed below) in the context of their implications to agricultural research and development. 1. Limitations in the dominant approaches to poverty analysis2. Deficiencies in data on gender and poverty3. Stereotypes which narrow the perspective through which poverty is conceptualized and addressed4. The organization and management of innovation systemsThis paper was discussed at the Stakeholders meeting at AGM2004

PRGA program publications list

List of PRGA publications

Auditing gender in agricultural R&D organizations: gender mainstreaming in the CGIAR

The CGIAR Systemwide Program on Participatory Research and Gender Analysis for Technology Development and Institutional Innovation (PRGA Program) conducted valuable work on gender mainstreaming in NARS in Africa, Asia and Latin American during its second phase (2003–2007), and developed key gender models and typologies during its first phase (1997–2002). Meanwhile, various efforts have been made to introduce gender analysis into the wider CGIAR System throughout the life of the Program

Participatory plant breeding

Participatory plant breeding (PPB) is the systematic and regular involvement of farmers as decision-makers in all stages of a plant breeding program. PPB falls within a spectrum of approaches that ranges from traditional plant breeding by farmers, with no involvement of scientists, to conventional plant breeding by scientists with no involvement of farmers

Participatory Research For Natural Resource Management: Continuing to Learn Together

Case studies on participatory research for natural resource managemen

Follow-up action by the Rethinking Impact Workshop participants and organizers

The Rethinking Impact Workshop (RIW): Understanding the complexity of poverty and change was held in Cali, Colombia, March 26–28, 2008. The workshop discussed (1) how agricultural and natural-resources research can be more effective in contributing to solutions for poverty alleviation and improving gender, social inclusion and equity; (2) how its impact can be assessed; and (3) how such research and impact assessment can be brought into the mainstream. An open-space session was held on the third and fi nal day of the workshop to enable participants to organize themselves into groups for action-planning purposes. Nine action-planning groups were: Principles and standards; Networking and community of practice; Methodologies guidelines (including ‘soft’); Institutionalization; Ex-ante impact assessment, priority-setting and planning; Organizing framework; Capacity-building; Communications; and, Histories and political economy of agricultural and natural-resources science and technology. This Brief reports some of the follow-up actions that the participants and organizers (ILAC Initiative, PRGA Program and ILRI’s Innovation Works) committed themselves to undertaking