Agrilinks Online Discussion on Thursday, Sept. 10 // 12:00-1:00 pm EDT This month’s Agrilinks “Ask Ag” online discussion will explore monitoring and evaluation for gender integration in agriculture and food security projects. We’ll be featuring a team of experts from the USAID Bureau for Food Security that specializes in M&E and gender. Participants and organizations are >> Read more
Agricultural biodiversity, value chains and women’s empowerment event at Milan Expo (Sept 17)
Bioversity International is hosting an event at the Milan Expo, September 17, 10:30 – 18:30. Did you know that women and agricultural biodiversity are closely linked? Every day, women grow, harvest, process, cook, buy or sell a diversity of food and agricultural products to sustain their families, contributing to the conservation of agricultural biodiversity while feeding >> Read more
Help WEAI Help You: New Opportunities to Utilize the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index
The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) is the first comprehensive and standardized measure to directly capture women’s empowerment and inclusion levels in the agricultural sector. Since its launch in 2012, the WEAI has evolved as global partners have adapted and utilized the Index in diverse ways to design and implement interventions that address the >> Read more
[UPDATED] Call for concept notes: Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project (GAAP 2)
The International Food Policy Research Institute has received a second round of support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to adapt and validate a measure of women’s empowerment that agricultural development projects can use to diagnose key areas of women’s (and men’s) disempowerment, design appropriate strategies to address deficiencies, and monitor project outcomes related >> Read more
Publication: “Focus on Families and Culture: A guide for conducting a participatory assessment on maternal and child nutrition”
For many years Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition (MCHN) programs have focused on women of reproductive age (WRA) given that they and their young offspring are the primary risk groups. This choice has also been influenced by the idea that WRA act independently regarding MCHN practices. In the past few years, programs have increasingly involved men based >> Read more
How can ICTs promote gender equality in rural areas?
e-Agriculture is collecting information on the topic 'Gender and the use of ICTs for agricultural and rural development - How ICTs can promote gender equality and women’s empowerment in rural areas', to prepare a paper on the subject. ICT initiatives are often generic and fail to recognize that the introduction of ICTs in a community will >> Read more
Gender and Development: Special Issue on Inequalities
The Gender & Development Special Issue on Inequalities has been published. The articles in this issue of G&D, co-edited with Naila Kabeer, come from a wide range of voices in international development research, policy and practice, and offer a gendered perspective on inequalities. To subscribe to all content from the journal, you can also click here.
IFPRI Gender Methods Seminar, Tuesday, July 28: Aspirations in Rural Pakistan: An Empirical Analysis
Aspirations in Rural Pakistan: An Empirical Analysis Presenter: Katrina Kosec Research Fellow, IFPRI Discussant: Jessica Heckert Associate Research Fellow, IFPRI Tuesday, July 28, 12:30pm-1:30pm EST Instructions for joining virtually are offered at the end of this message. Abstract: Aspirations are goals which people set and intend to achieve; they are increasingly being recognized as an >> Read more
Report Release: Measuring Women’s Economic Empowerment and M&E Guidelines
From the Women's Economic Empowerment: A Roadmap website: Design challenges are common to most program evaluations, but this is especially true for programs that measure women's economic empowerment. This is because of the interdependence between women's economic and social roles, which influences their business choices and returns to those businesses. For example, because women have >> Read more
Event: Empowering Women through Political Participation and Empowering Politics through Women’s Participation
July 30, 2015, 9:00am-2:30pm 1957 E Street NW, 6th Floor, Lindner Family Commons The Global Gender Program The Elliott School of International Affairs The George Washington University 9:00am Welcome: Barbara Miller Director, Global Gender Program 9:15am Keynote address: Homa Hoodfar Professor of Anthropology at Concordia University, Canada Professor Hoodfar’s research lies in the intersection of political >> Read more
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