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GENDER AND AGRICULTURE IN THE CGIAR: PROGRESS ON
MAINSTREAMINGJacqueline Ashby, Senior Advisor, Gender and Research. CGIAR Consortium Office.June 15, 2012
• Mainstream gender in the CGIAR Research Programs (CPRs)
• Cross-cutting theme
Gender in CGIAR Strategic Results Framework
• All CRPs have an explicit gender strategy implemented within 6 months of their inception
• Research outputs in all CRPs bring demonstrable and measurable benefits to women farmers in target areas within 4 years following inception of the CRP.
• By 2014 Staff training and strategic partnerships ensure all CRPs have
sufficient gender expertise.
Consortium deliverables
• Gender Strategy from each CRP
• Gender budgeting in CRPs
Mainstreaming
• CGIAR Gender & Agriculture Research Network established, January 2012.
Cross-cutting
• Facilitate CRP Gender Strategy submission
• Chair network• Recommend
strategies to improve capacity
Gender Advisor TORs
Progress of CRP Gender Strategies
February-June, 2012
Status of CRP Gender Strategy
Status of draft
February
Status of draftJune
Finalversion
Group 1Writing is advanced
5(1.3, 6, 3.3 ,7, 3.7)
11 (1.2, 1.3, 2, 3.1,3.3, 3.4, 3.5,3.6, 3.7 6,7)
3
Group 2Confirmed plan
6(1.1, 2 , 3.1, 3.2, 3.4 , 4)
4( 1.1 ,3.2, 4, 5)
September-October
Group 3Pending
4(1.2, 3.5 3.6, 5 )
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Gender Budgeting Issues
•Many CRP proposals lacked a gender budget•Strategic research costs are clear•Integration=add-on: difficult to cost•Monitoring performance rather than expenditure will be critical
• Planning meeting (March)
• Workshop (July)CLOSING THE GENDER GAP IN
AGRICULTURE: OPPORTUNITIES FOR
COLLABORATION INGENDER-RESPONSIVE
RESEARCH.
Gender & Agriculture Research Network, 2012
• Proposals for collaboration on 3 crosscutting themes
• Joint set of indicators for M&E
• Planning Sentinel Sites
Network Workshop Agenda, July 2012
Cross cutting themes
Type of CGIAR Research Program
Gender-Responsive Entry Points
Comm-odity
NaturalRes-ources
Pol-icies
Sys-tems
Nutrit-ionand Health
Climate Change
Equal access toappropriate technology and advisory services
* * * * * *More inclusive commodity & food value chains
* * * *Women’s control of income generated by technology and institutional innovations
* * * * * *Women’s asset accumulation and rights * * * *Improved information systems on gender in agriculture * * * * * *
• Capacity needs assessment
• Beyond strategy to gender policy
Network Workshop Agenda, July 2012
Issues for CRP Gender Strategies
• Gender de-emphasized in CG research since mid-2000s
• CGIAR investment in social science eroded• New work requires new capacity• Quantity and quality of CRP social science very
uneven• Heavy demand on existing expertise across the CG
system• Risk of mainstreaming a quick, low-cost “gender
fix” versus an evidence-based research process that uses quality social science
Challenges for CRPGender Strategies
• Improve theory of change: identify which CRP outcomes depend on change in collateral gender inequity in rights and services
• How to reward good performance?• How to “level-up” weak capacity and
achieve research efficiencies by working across CRPs?
• Deepen capacity through alliances with external sources of gender expertise
• Capacity needs assessment study
Looking forward…
• Encourage novel partnerships with large-scale development interventions for gender impact
Looking forward…
• Provide incentives for cross-CRP innovation and efficiency
“Gender Performance Fund”?
Looking forward…
Thank you!
GENDER AND AGRICULTURE IN THE CGIAR: CROSS PROGRAM COLLABORATION ON
GENDER RESEARCH
Jacqueline Ashby, Senior Advisor, Gender and Research. CGIAR Consortium Office.June 15, 2012
Opportunities for CRP collaboration
• Joint M&E of a small set of indicators of gender-responsive outcomes shared across CRPs
• Joint research: reducing gender inequity in value chains
• Joint experimentation with novel approaches to enhance impact
• Sentinel sites
Incentives for CRP gender research
Gender Performance Fund?
• Gender research performance rewarded by allocations through Window 1
• Based on CRP Gender Strategies, workplans and budgets (no separate proposals) and performance
• Time-bound: operates for a few years• Allocations made to specific CRPs for
own gender activities• Special allocations made to CRPs with
comparative advantage for strengthening a theme or activity across CRPs