Usually at the design stage of research programmes, technical researchers appreciate the integration of gender. But when it comes to field activities, the time and money needed to conduct research with a gender lens are seen as a constraint. Technical scientists tend to put aside some gender aspe...
Kinati, Wole
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[Creating win-win situations for scientists: Gender and technical scientists working together]
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Creating win-win situations for scientists: Gender and technical scientists working together
Tom Randolph highlights how researchers are incentivized to take up gender as an important component of their research. Once they define a project with a gender component, they can receive financial support to implement the project or get backstopping by a gender specialist. Scientists are encour...
Randolph, Thomas F.
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[Creating incentives for gender integration in livestock and fish research]
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Creating incentives for gender integration in livestock and fish research
Teaching Egyptian fish farmers the industry’s best aquaculture practices has helped increase their production and income. Strengthening the industry’s small and medium-scale farms will generate new employment opportunities and meet the country’s growing demand for fish. The training is part of th...
Mats Lannerstad is currently working on two major projects that incoroprate gender. One is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; it assesses the environmental imapcts of development projects. The researchers ask local stakeholders to contribute in various stages of the process, analysi...
Lannerstad, Mats
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[Hearing voices: Reconciling scale and gender in agricultural research]
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Hearing voices: Reconciling scale and gender in agricultural research
It is often assumed that increasing agricultural productivity leads to a better diet. But in fact the relationship is more complex, and gender has an important role in mediating it. There are only a few harmonized datasets available, so the research team built its own tool and used it around the ...
Nasrin Sultana acted as a coach for the Livestock Feed Assessment Tool, or FEAST. This meant integrating gender in a tool that was already heavily used. It was necessary to integrate gender without making the tool too heavy, which would risk it losing its popularity. She also coached the feed val...
Sultana, N.
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[Coaching livestock and fish projects on gender: Experiences from distance and field participation]
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Coaching livestock and fish projects on gender: Experiences from distance and field participation
The CGIAR research program has been doing capacity development of non-gender scientists on how to integrate gender in their work. An institutional architecture has also been built to support gender integration, for example, interdisciplinary teams with a gender-initiative representative on the pr...
Pyburn, Rhiannon
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[Building from gender experiences and learning for phase 2 of the CGIAR research programs]
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Building from gender experiences and learning for phase 2 of the CGIAR research programs
Gender is crucial for research on forages. We need to look at at gender aspects of forage production, such as labour-conservation techniques that may affect women and youth the most. Women and youth may have opportunities in feed processing and in forage-seed production. We also need to understan...
Catherine Pfeifer took up the challenge of integrating gender into the maps she produced. Starting with an economics model and major gender concepts, she performed a factor analysis on published data, which resulted in six factors or “gender contexts” in Africa. These maps can be used for assessi...
Pfeifer, Catherine
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[Making sense of the big picture: Maps with gender factors to improve project targeting]
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Making sense of the big picture: Maps with gender factors to improve project targeting
Katrine Danielsen was part of the original team that designed the coaching trajectory. She thinks the approach was successful because it was bottom-up. Individuals who were eager to integrate gender in their technical work were identified and supported through the coaching. The team also also loo...
Danielsen, K.
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[Beyond a 1000 flowers: The institutionalisation of gender in research programs]
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Beyond a 1000 flowers: The institutionalisation of gender in research programs