CGIAR is a global partnership focused on gender mainstreaming in climate change, agriculture and food security. It aims to ensure that vulnerable groups and women have increased access to productive assets, information, food markets and decision making processes. It does this through gender-targeted research across four areas of climate-smart practices, innovations, scaling out approaches, equitable climate information services and institutions. Key approaches include strategic partnerships, social learning, co-developing research with farmers, gender transformative methods, innovative communication and monitoring outcomes. The goal is equitable policies and resilient food systems.

1. CGIAR is a global research partnership for a food secure future
Gender
Mainstreaming in Climate Change,
Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)
Impact Pathway
Implementation: Innovative approaches for scaling
out
• Farm reality TV show targeting and informing East Africa
women, men and youth on climate-smart agriculture
technologies
The ‘What’
Gendertargeted
research in all
four CCAFS
research
areas
(flagships)
Gender &
ClimateSmart
Practices,
Innovations,
Scaling Out
Approaches
The ‘How’, ‘Where’ and
‘With Whom’
Strategic partnerships +
learning approaches to
achieve gender & social
differentiation outcomes
Inclusive local forwardplanning action research
with NGO’s taking
gender transformative
actions
Equitable
Climate Info
Services,
ClimateInformed
Safety Nets
Equitable participatory
research with Met
Services and NARES
Co-process and costrategy development
with stakeholders
Inclusive &
equitable
institutions
supporting
‘Low
Emission
Development’
Strategic partnerships &
joint learning re:
innovative & equitable
mitigation actions and
institutional
arrangements supporting
LED by and for women
Equitable
policies and
institutions
for resilient
food systems
• Mobile-phone based equitable irrigation advisory services
• Female and youth-targeted climate and ag information
services
Our Vision and
Gender
Outcome
• Participatory farmer-led videos sharing perceptions,
knowledge and adaptation strategies
• Testing new large-scale, inclusive crowdsourcing
approaches
M&E: Training in gender impact pathway analysis and M&E
strategies with partners
Vulnerable
groups and
women have
increased
access to and
control over:
Identifying context-driven, appropriate tools, capacity
strengthening and generating new evidence:
Inclusive learning
alliances/platforms;
strengthening women and
youth’s voices in farmers orgs
& their policy influence; policy
champions & enhanced
foresight analysis capacity
• Productive
assets &
inputs
• Information
• Food and
markets
• Strengthened
participation
in decisionmaking
processes
Systemlevel
Outcomes
• Cross-centre/CRP development of improved gender-climate
change research tools
• Partner trainings in 5 CCAFS regions, and cross-centre/CRP
implementation of new tools
Achieving our vision: How we do the research matters
We embrace key “Linking Knowledge with Action” Lessons
and Principles:
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Strategic partnerships and inclusive engagement processes
Social learning approaches
Co-developing research questions and approaches with farmers
Gender transformative approaches
Innovative communication approaches for scaling out
Nested impact pathway development with partners and M&E for
tracking and achieving joint outcomes
Partners
• NGOs, e.g. PROLINNOVA and CARE International
• Other CRPs and Universities, e.g. University of Florida
• Climate smart and gender-oriented large development
programs and investments, e.g. IFAD, FAO, EU, USAID, Bill
& Melinda Gates Foundation, World Bank
• Governments and NARES
• International gender networks, e.g. WOCAN
Key Contacts
Jennifer Twyman
Patti Kristjanson
Chris Jost
Website
j.twyman@cgiar.org
p.kristjanson@cgiar.org
c.jost@cgiar.org
www.ccafs.cgiar.org/gender
Photocredits: Neil Palmer (CIAT) Pawan Kumar
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October
2013