Date: 27-29 June Venue: IFAD HQ, Italian Conference Room (webcast available) IFAD, Oxfam and Hivos are jointly organizing a "Forum on Empowerment through Household Methodologies" (Rome, 27 - 29 June 2016) for practitioners and key players, with a special focus on Gender Action Learning System (GALS). The Forum will gather experts and champions in household methodologies, >> Read more
CALL FOR PAPERS: South Asian Water Studies Special Issue on ‘Water Justice, Gender, and Disabilities”
South Asian Water Studies (SAWAS), an open access journal http://www.sawasjournal.org, has issued a call for papers for a special issue on ‘Water justice, Gender and Disabilities.' This special issue is guest edited by Alan Nicol and Floriane Clement from IWMI, and Sylvie Cordier, a Disability and Development specialist. The deadline for paper submission is 30th September 2016. SAWAS_Call for Papers - Water >> Read more
WEBINARS: June 21 and 22, on gender and livelihoods in humanitarian programs
Foundations of Strength: Gender, Protection, and Livelihoods June 21, 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM EDT Well-intentioned livelihoods programs can often backfire: by overlooking gender and protection, they endanger the refugee women, girls, men and boys they seek to help. The CLARA tools provide a framework to incorporate gender and protection into livelihoods programs, helping humanitarians create >> Read more
EVENT: June 20, From citizen security to food security: a cross-sector discussion of violence in Central America
On June 20, 3:00-4:30 PM EST, InnovATE is sponsoring an online panel discussion on Agrilinks.org called "From Citizen Security to Food Security: A Cross-Sector Discussion of Violence in Central America." InnovATE began looking at this issue to investigate why youth, and young men in particular, were dropping out of the agricultural education system at alarming rates in Central >> Read more
WEBINAR: June 21, The WEAI Intervention Guide and the Gender Integration Framework
Presenter(s): Lindsey Jones-Renaud, ACDI/VOCA; Krista Jacobs, USAID; Jenn Williamson, ACDI/VOCA June 21, 2016 - 9:00am - 10:30am The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) is a fantastic data collection tool, but what happens after you’ve learned about the findings from the report? How can you turn that knowledge into action? Join this webinar to talk about two resources that can help >> Read more
EVENT: Is Women’s Empowerment a Pathway to Improving Child Health Outcomes in an Integrated Agriculture and Nutrition Program? Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Burkina Faso
June 8, 12pm-1pm EST (instructions for joining virtually provided below) Presentation by Jessica Heckert, Associate Research Fellow, Poverty, Health, and Nutrition Division, IFPRI Abstract Integrated agriculture, nutrition, and health programs often target women beneficiaries because of their potential to improve children’s health. However, evidence linking women’s empowerment to improved child health is drawn primarily from cross-sectional data. We >> Read more
PRESENTATION: Gender, Agriculture, and the Environment: From “Zombie Facts” to Evidence
Four "zombie myths" continue to haunt us in the field of gender and agriculture. This presentation looks at the evidence on women and i) the feminization of poverty, ii) food production, iii) land ownership, and iv) proclivity to environmental stewardship. Presented by Ruth Meinzen-Dick at Penn State University, June 2016. For more information about IFPRI's Gender >> Read more
EVENT: Gender 360 Summit, June 15-16
Engaging Adolescent Girls and Boys in Achieving Gender Equality and Combating Gender-based Violence NEW DATES! 15-16 June 2016 | Marriott Marquis, 901 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Washington, D.C. FHI 360, in partnership with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Plan International USA, Social Development Direct, MenEngage Alliance, George Washington University's Global Women’s Institute, the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. >> Read more
EVENT: Livestream of IDB Gender Summit, June 7-8
The Inter-American Development Bank on behalf of the Multilateral Development Banks’ Working Group on Gender is hosting the 2016 Global Gender Summit: Stereotypes & Opportunities: Women’s Economic Empowerment, taking place in IDB Headquarters in Washington, DC (1300 New York Avenue NW), on June 7 & 8, 2016. The Summit’s objective is to facilitate the exchange of best practices >> Read more
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