CGIAR Collaborative Platform on
Gender Research
Communities of Practice
Gender and Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA): Sophia Huyer
Gender and water (WAGI): Floriane Clement
GENNOVATE - Marlene Elias and Lone Badstue
Gender and nutrition: Elena Martinez
Gender and Breeding post-docs – Cynthia McDougall
Gender and Breeding Initiative –Vivian Polar
Gender and Big Data: Medha Devare and Marcelo Tyszler
16h-17h CET, December 5th 2017
First Annual Scientific Conference
KIT Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam

Gender and CSA Learning
Platform
CCAFS Gender and Social Inclusion (GSI)
A platform for:
1. Information exchange and support for gender and CSA
research across CRPs & Centers
2. Promoting cross-CRP research collaboration
3. Integrating gender and CSA research findings into climate
policy / international initiatives
Who can join: All CG researchers working on these issues
• Network site on the CGIAR Gender Platform
• GenderCSA email list

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WAGI/Gender and Water
Key activities and/or publications
• Quarterly meetings: Updates on water and gender
research activities, events, publications
• Synthesis paper submitted at Global Food Security for
special issue on Gender (8 authors, 4 countries)
People
Originally WLE and IWMI staff.
Now IWMI or ex-IWMI staff, mostly social scientists (around 15 active
members)
Sharepoint, Slack, Endnote library open to members
Tools open to new members interested in gender and water 2

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Thank you
Photo: Neil Palmer/IWMI

GENNOVATE is a collaboration of research teams from 11 Phase I CRPs working across Latin
America, Africa and Asia. The joint research effort includes strong capacity-building.
You can find all GENNOVATE products, methodology and contact details here:
https://gender.cgiar.org/themes/gennovate/
GENNOVATE
A qualitative, comparative research initiative at scale
How do gendernormsand agencyinfluence men’sandwomen’scapacitytoinnovatein agriculture
and NRM.
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Special issue on GENNOVATE
submitted to
Tools for non-gender scientists CRP specific reports
And other peer-reviewed articles, e.g.
Cohen, P. J. et al. (2016). Understanding
adaptive capacity and capacity to
innovate in social–ecological systems:
Applying a gender lens. Ambio
Locke, C. et al. (2017). Innovation and
gendered negotiations: Insights from six
small-scale fishing communities. Fish and
Fisheries
GENNOVATE products:

Gender and Nutrition CoP
Key activities
1. Developing tools, indicators, and approaches to measure women’s empowerment
in agriculture
2. Analyzing connections between empowerment and nutrition outcomes
3. Incorporating mixed methods into gender and nutrition research
4. Expanding the focus of cross-cutting research to include equity and empowerment
People
 Hazel Malapit, Senior Gender Research Coordinator,
A4NH
 Agnes Quisumbing, Senior Gender Advisor, A4NH
 Elena Martinez, Senior Research Assistant, A4NH
Join us!
Email us at h.malapit@cgiar.org
Gender-Nutrition Idea Exchange (GNIE) Blog
Recent publications
• Malapit et al (2015). Women’s empowerment mitigates the negative
effects of low production diversity on maternal and child nutrition in
Nepal, Journal of Development Studies
• Malapit and Quisumbing (2015). What dimensions of women’s
empowerment in agriculture matter for nutrition in Ghana? Food Policy
• Johnston et al (2017). Review: Time use as an explanation for the agri-
nutrition disconnect? Evidence from rural areas in low and middle
income countries, Under review
Credit: Finn Thilsted/WorldFish

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Gender & Breeding
Postdoctoral Fellow Initiative
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Funded by the
Hosted by
Partner
Collaboration of

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Gender & Breeding
Postdoctoral Fellow Initiative
Focus:
 Gendered trait preferences of women and men farmers &
consumers
Key activities:
 Cap dev— PDF individual cap dev plans and support (in progress)
Mixed Methods workshop (Dec 2017)
Writeshop (2018)
 Collaborative Study: Lessons from 7 PDF studies (2018)
Publications:
 End-user responsive methods: Tool Navigator (Friday)
 Collaborative peer review journal article (2018)
People: 7 PDFs + network of breeders, gender and other experts
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Photo: Neil Palmer/IWMI

D E C E M B E R 5 t h 2 0 1 7
Gender and Breeding Initiative
First Annual Scientific Conference
KIT Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam
G . T h i e l e , C . M c D o u g a l l , V. P o l a r

Gender and Breeding Initiative
Key activities
• Innovation Workshop GRB held from 5-7 October 2017 in Nairobi, Kenya.
• 3 Webinars were held including 1 with the gender platform
Publications
Develop a strategy for gender responsive breeding and establish mechanisms to
foster collaboration among social and biophysical scientists
Working Documents Briefs
1. Gender and social targeting
2. Setting breeding objectives and trait
prioritization
3. Case studies of gender and breeding
programs
1. Critical decision points for
implementing GRB
2. Uptake pathways to achieve GRB
3. Funding strategy for the initiative
People involved
• Plant and animal breeders and social scientists from across CGIAR Centers
and Programs

Follow us!
http://www.rtb.cgiar.org/gender-breeding-initiative

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