International Conference on Integrated Systems

1. Gender and Systems Research:

2. Gender and Systems Research:
Leveraging Change

3. Significance?

4. Significance?
Valued-added of
systems
research?

6. Significance?
Significance…

7. gender

8. gender
&
social equity

9. gender
&
social equity
systems
research

10. Cynefin Framework:
David Snowden

11. Cynefin Framework:
David Snowden

12. Cynefin Framework:
David Snowden

15. gender
&
social equity ?

16. knowledge base
accuracy
transformation
focus

17. Accuracy,
relevance

18. Accuracy,
relevance
Knowledge
base

19. Accuracy,
relevance
Knowledge
base
Targeting

20. Accuracy,
relevance
Knowledge
base
Targeting
Research Quality
&
Utility

21. Full potential?
Accuracy,
relevance
Knowledge
base
Targeting
Research Quality
&
Utility

22. “Single loop” influence…
Accuracy,
relevance
Knowledge
base
Targeting
Doing better within
the system

23. Single loop:
Doing better
within the
system
Double loop:
Improving the
system
Double loop engagement…

24. Gender and social equity...Pivotal role of Gender and social equity…

25. …a
leverage point to shift the system?

26. Gender &
global food security

27. Gender &
global food security

29. Leverage point?

30. “…places within a complex system
(a corporation, an economy, a living body, a city,
an ecosystem) where a small shift in one thing can
produce big changes in everything…”.
D.Meadows

31. X Changes in stocks and flows (resources)

32. Transforming the ‘Rules of the game…’

33. In systems research this means
engaging with....

34. What’s the connection?

35. Farmer innovation...

36. …on-farm agricultural research

37. Community forestry research…

38. Pre-Adaptive
collaborative
governanceLow benefits
Intra-group
conflict
Inequitable
distribution
Low
involvement
of women &
poor

39. Community
forest
governance
Traditional
socio-cultural
hierarchies
Norms, attitudes, practices:
Pre-Adaptive collaborative governance

40. “We were also enthusiastic to participate in the
general assembly of the CFUG in the past, but
when we participated we were blamed repeatedly
as forest destroyers, and this made us feel
ashamed. It forced us to leave the venue before
reaching any decision. Such assemblies were
nothing but the venue to get scolded.”
(Daure woman, Handikharka CFUG)

42. Community
forest
governance
Community groups
shaping their own
norms, attitudes,
practices
Norms, attitudes, practices:
With adaptive collaborative governance

43. “In the past our voice was not
considered ,
but nowadays our sayings also are
counted
and we are asked as well”
(Female member of Patle CFUG )

44. "We never realized the say of women and
poor in past,
but adaptive collaborative management
opened my eyes that every user knows
something …”
(Male committee member, Patle CFUG)

45. Increased
benefits
Reduced
conflict
More
equitable
benefit
sharing
Women &
poor
members
more actively
engaged
Findings:
With adaptive
collaborative
governance

46. Findings: With ACG
Increased
distributional
equity
Source: McDougall et al., 2013b

47. Findings: With ACG
Increases in
livelihood
benefits
overall
Source: McDougall et al., 2013b

48. Big ideas...
Resilience

49. Big ideas...
Transformation
gender & social equity norms, behaviours, practices

50. Big ideas
Value added of systems research?
Space & opportunity to identify leverage points
Big ideas...

51. Value added of systems research?
Shared opportunity
to engage with these

52. Shared opportunity
Gender & social equity

53. Thank you