Last week, whilst the CGIAR Research Program (CRPs) leaders were meeting with donors and partners to discuss progress and future directions for their programs, the gender specialists were also busy paving the way for the integration of gender research across the CRPs. Gender research is of growing importance in the progress reports presented by the CRPs and in guiding the future direction of their research programs.
Click here to read the full blog post on the successes/progress of CGIAR gender research, especially examples of participatory variety selection, collaborative forest management, the Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI), capacity development, and gender transformative approaches.
In addition, click here for the full blog post on the workshop that was held at these meetings, entitled, “Methods and Standards for Research on Gender and Agriculture.” The aim of this workshop was for participants to identify a minimum set of gender survey questions that researchers must include in their questionnaires, as well as agree on basic standards that must be met for qualitative and participatory methods.
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