April 16, 2015 - 9:00AM-4:00PM Carnegie Conference Center, 1779 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC CARE’s work in the agriculture sector aims to challenge the discriminatory gender and social norms that undermine agricultural productivity and food security in smallholder agriculture systems. However, monitoring behavior changes related to gender remains a complex, nuanced, and challenging endeavor. In this >> Read more
Launch of new gender integration resources on March 25
The 2014 Storybook is a collection of gender integration stories from ACDI/VOCA, Catholic Relief Services, Lutheran World Relief, Mercy Corps, Project Concern International, and World Vision. This document was developed through technical support from Cultural Practice, LLC. Integrating Gender throughout a Project's Life Cycle 2.0 is a customizable resource applicable to a wide range of development practitioners, >> Read more
Poverty Action Lab roundtable on “Qualitatively Measuring Women’s Empowerment”
CLEAR/J-PAL South Asia at IFMR organized the final roundtable in the Gender, Evaluation and Empowerment Series on "Qualitatively Measuring ‘Women’s Empowerment’: Lessons from South Asia” on 16 February, 2015 in Mumbai. The video of the roundtable can be viewed here and the presentations and agenda are attached for your reference: Agenda Evaluating the Evolution of >> Read more
New EnGendering Data blogpost: “Do you own the asset?”
The CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Markets, and Institutions (PIM) has another great post on the EnGendering Data blog. In "Do you own the asset?", R Padmaja and Dr. Cynthia Bantilan of ICRISAT discuss small but critical changes they made to their survey instrument to collect better data on women's asset ownership. Read the full post here, and >> Read more
Call for gender-sensitive social and behavior change for nutrition resources
Do you work in the fields of nutrition and food security? Have you successfully integrated gender-sensitive social and behavior change (SBC) activities into your projects/programs in order to improve nutrition outcomes for pregnant and lactating mothers and children under two during the 1,000 day window of opportunity? If so, we welcome your input! We are looking for resources >> Read more
UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality: now accepting proposals
UN Women's Fund for Gender Equality is pleased to announce its third call for proposals. This year the Fund welcomes submissions from women-led civil society organizations with innovative, high-impact, and multi-stakeholder women's rights and gender equality programmes that help jumpstart progress towards the Post-2015 Development Agenda. The Fund will grant applications in the areas of: >> Read more
Live webcasts this week from the Commission on the Status of Women
Watch these events live on EmpowerWomen.org: Wednesday 11 March, 11:00 am to 12:30 pm (EDT) "Principles into Practice: Market Place and Value Chain" organized by UN Women's Empower Women Team during the annual event on the Women's Empowerment Principles (WEPs) Wednesday 11 March, 3:00 to 4:15 pm (EDT) "Unlocking domestic capital for women's economic empowerment" organized >> Read more
Call for Applications: SEED Awards 2015
Is your enterprise in a start-up phase and does it integrate social and environmental benefits, solving pressing local issues? Is it women-led? Do you need support to help to establish and grow your enterprise? If these questions apply to you, you will be pleased to hear that SEED has opened the Call for Applications for >> Read more
10 gender and development posts to celebrate International Women’s Day
Ten great posts in celebration of International Women's Day: 23 inspiring reasons to celebrate International Women's Day - UNDP Does Gender Equality Matter in Agriculture? Yes! Here's Why. - USAID Feed the Future blog 3 reasons why agricultural research should be gender-inclusive, and 3 ways to do it - an animated video from CIAT Empowering Women, Empowering >> Read more
Launch of the Journal of Gender, Agriculture, and Food Security
The inaugural issue of the Journal of Gender, Agriculture and Food Security is now available: http://www.agrigender.net/index.php Agri-Gender is an international, open access, peer-reviewed and refereed journal. The main objective of Agri-Gender is to provide an intellectual platform for international scholars to publish their research work on gender, agriculture and food security.
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