IFPRI Gender Research

The OECD’s mission – Better Policies for Better Lives – promotes policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world. It provides a unique forum in which governments work together to share experiences on what drives economic, social and environmental change, seeking solutions to common problems. The Development Centre (DEV) >> Read more

Gendered Access to Forest and Small Farms in Latin America Venue: CIAT Headquarters in Cali-Palmira, Colombia on 21-22 August 2013 Access to forestland and land tenure for small-scale farms is most often gender biased. Women and men have different access and tenure rights which in turn impact their ability to participate in sustainable management of >> Read more

The Landesa Center for Women's Land Rights has just launched LandWise, a free online resource containing land-related laws, information about relevant customary practices, and explanatory materials. LandWise is an important new tool for policymakers, researchers, legal practitioners, and women's advocates working to strengthen women's land rights around the world. The site also has three recently-added Practice >> Read more

The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) is currently recruiting for a Senior Program Specialist to take the lead on the new initiative on Women’s Economic Empowerment and Growth in Low-Income Countries. This initiative is jointly supported by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and IDRC with an approximate value >> Read more

Title: Senior Gender Specialist Thematic Area : Livelihoods Apply Now Background The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) is a regional intergovernmental learning and knowledge sharing centre serving the eight regional member countries of the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region – Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Pakistan. Our aim is to influence policy and practices to meet >> Read more

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 >> Read more

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is seeking a Senior Program Office to join the Agricultural Development Team within their Global Development Program. The job description is as follows: The Senior Program Officer (SPO) will be a leader and a team player in the implementation of these goals, with a specific focus on creating gender-responsive >> Read more

A recent report by the FAO lays out guidelines on how the FAO and national agricultural ministries around the world can use CEDAW (the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women) at the country level to guide policy development and programming with the goal of achieving equality between women and men in >> Read more

A newly-released IFPRI Discussion Paper written by Cheryl Doss offers guidelines on how to collect better gendered data through surveys. It details who should be interviewed; how the interview should be structured; and what kinds of questions should be asked, both at the individual level and also more broadly at the household, community or regional >> Read more