CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions and Markets - Gender Strategy

Gender StrategyFarmers 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

DRIVE (Data-Driven Research and Innovation Virtual Ecosystem): A new platform for evidence-based science and technology governance in India

DRIVE is publicly available online

Supporting Nepal’s Federal Transition through research and engagement on the devolution of the agricultural sector.

A study demanded by Nepal’s Ministry of Agricultural Development (MoAD) analysed how agriculture has been devolved in other federal or quasi-federal settings and generated primary data on the concerns of district-level agricultural service providers and rural households in Nepal. Through repeated engagement with high-level policymakers, MoAD adopted suggestions in the study on food technology and quality control and the structure of agricultural training centers. Moreover, MoAD accepted Kenya as a model for devolution and undertook a study tour there

Understanding the effects of emergency school feeding and general food distribution on children's schooling in conflict areas

The impact evaluation of the program has been completed and a working paper published

Experimental games scaled out to 250,000 households to improve ground and surface water governance in India

In India, rapid decline in groundwater levels is a serious challenge in many areas. With support from PIM and WLE, IFPRI partnered with the Foundation for Ecological Security, a major Indian NGO, to develop and test the use of experimental games to strengthen groundwater governance at the community level. ICRISAT developed similar tools for managing surface water. These tools are being scaled out to over 3,700 communities involving some 250,000 households in at least six Indian states

Multi-actor platform design guide for improved natural resource governance at landscape level

Results from the approach have been published and piloted in Cambodia, India, Uganda and Zambia

Operational framework to identify intervention points for supporting a tenure- and governance-enabling environment for community forest enterprises in Nepal

Initial piloting was completed through application of the framework to assess 12 community forest enterprises in Nepal. Next steps are to implement it elsewhere to ascertain its usefulness in other regions

Map Egypt: An online database for improving food and nutrition security in Egypt

MAP Egypt is publicly available. In order to effectively allocate funds, build synergies and evaluate future proposals, users can visualize and monitor the status and progress of agricultural projects categorized by sector, location, donor or common objectives, as well as track projects' key performance indicators

Testing an approach to screen and treat maternal depression through group therapy to improve newborn child outcomes in Ethiopia

This approach screens new mothers for depression and offers treatment through interpersonal therapy in groups (IPT-G). Maternal post-partum depression is associated with poorer child outcomes and IPT-G can alleviate depression symptom. This study will test whether cash transfers boost effectiveness of IPT-G for improving child outcomes in Ethiopia

International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade–Standard IFPRI Multimarket Model (IMPACT-SIMM)

The documentation of IMPACT-SIMM was published in a 2021 Discussion Paper