CGIAR gender update

GENDER AND AGRICULTURE IN THE CGIAR: PROGRESS ON

MAINSTREAMINGJacqueline Ashby, Senior Advisor, Gender and Research. CGIAR Consortium Office.June 15, 2012

• Mainstream gender in the CGIAR Research Programs (CPRs)

• Cross-cutting theme

Gender in CGIAR Strategic Results Framework

• All CRPs have an explicit gender strategy implemented within 6 months of their inception

• Research outputs in all CRPs bring demonstrable and measurable benefits to women farmers in target areas within 4 years following inception of the CRP.

• By 2014 Staff training and strategic partnerships ensure all CRPs have

sufficient gender expertise.

Consortium deliverables

• Gender Strategy from each CRP

• Gender budgeting in CRPs

Mainstreaming

• CGIAR Gender & Agriculture Research Network established, January 2012.

Cross-cutting

• Facilitate CRP Gender Strategy submission

• Chair network• Recommend

strategies to improve capacity

Gender Advisor TORs

Progress of CRP Gender Strategies

February-June, 2012

Status of CRP Gender Strategy

Status of draft

February

Status of draftJune

Finalversion

Group 1Writing is advanced

5(1.3, 6, 3.3 ,7, 3.7)

11 (1.2, 1.3, 2, 3.1,3.3, 3.4, 3.5,3.6, 3.7 6,7)

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Group 2Confirmed plan

6(1.1, 2 , 3.1, 3.2, 3.4 , 4)

4( 1.1 ,3.2, 4, 5)

September-October

Group 3Pending

4(1.2, 3.5 3.6, 5 )

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Gender Budgeting Issues

•Many CRP proposals lacked a gender budget•Strategic research costs are clear•Integration=add-on: difficult to cost•Monitoring performance rather than expenditure will be critical

• Planning meeting (March)

• Workshop (July)CLOSING THE GENDER GAP IN

AGRICULTURE: OPPORTUNITIES FOR

COLLABORATION INGENDER-RESPONSIVE

RESEARCH.

Gender & Agriculture Research Network, 2012

• Proposals for collaboration on 3 crosscutting themes

• Joint set of indicators for M&E

• Planning Sentinel Sites

Network Workshop Agenda, July 2012

Cross cutting themes

Type of CGIAR Research Program

Gender-Responsive Entry Points

Comm-odity

NaturalRes-ources

Pol-icies

Sys-tems

Nutrit-ionand Health

Climate Change

Equal access toappropriate technology and advisory services

* * * * * *More inclusive commodity & food value chains

* * * *Women’s control of income generated by technology and institutional innovations

* * * * * *Women’s asset accumulation and rights * * * *Improved information systems on gender in agriculture * * * * * *

• Capacity needs assessment

• Beyond strategy to gender policy

Network Workshop Agenda, July 2012

Issues for CRP Gender Strategies

• Gender de-emphasized in CG research since mid-2000s

• CGIAR investment in social science eroded• New work requires new capacity• Quantity and quality of CRP social science very

uneven• Heavy demand on existing expertise across the CG

system• Risk of mainstreaming a quick, low-cost “gender

fix” versus an evidence-based research process that uses quality social science

Challenges for CRPGender Strategies

• Improve theory of change: identify which CRP outcomes depend on change in collateral gender inequity in rights and services

• How to reward good performance?• How to “level-up” weak capacity and

achieve research efficiencies by working across CRPs?

• Deepen capacity through alliances with external sources of gender expertise

• Capacity needs assessment study

Looking forward…

• Encourage novel partnerships with large-scale development interventions for gender impact

Looking forward…

• Provide incentives for cross-CRP innovation and efficiency

“Gender Performance Fund”?

Looking forward…

Thank you!

GENDER AND AGRICULTURE IN THE CGIAR: CROSS PROGRAM COLLABORATION ON

GENDER RESEARCH

Jacqueline Ashby, Senior Advisor, Gender and Research. CGIAR Consortium Office.June 15, 2012

Opportunities for CRP collaboration

• Joint M&E of a small set of indicators of gender-responsive outcomes shared across CRPs

• Joint research: reducing gender inequity in value chains

• Joint experimentation with novel approaches to enhance impact

• Sentinel sites

Incentives for CRP gender research

Gender Performance Fund?

• Gender research performance rewarded by allocations through Window 1

• Based on CRP Gender Strategies, workplans and budgets (no separate proposals) and performance

• Time-bound: operates for a few years• Allocations made to specific CRPs for

own gender activities• Special allocations made to CRPs with

comparative advantage for strengthening a theme or activity across CRPs