February 11 is the official UN Day to recognize to recognize women and girls in science. These profiles feature some gender researchers from across the CGIAR system; from gender specialists to researchers from other disciplines who work on gender, including postdoctoral fellows.
To be held on March 2, 2017 from 3.00-4.00 P.M. IST and led by the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecossytems, this webinar will walk participants through the purpose and use of the manual, including implementation experiences from one of the field trainers. The current manual is simply a starting point, as the designers hope to accrue feedback…
In this webinar, CARE and WorldFish Center jointly present a literature review of promising indicators and tools for measuring gender-transformative change in agriculture, along with some practical case studies and the implications of applying such approaches in practice.
WLE has released a manual for critical discussions on gender norms, roles and relations. This manual contains everything required to conduct a three-hour gender training workshop, especially as part of a larger development project. In addition, they have developed a film on the participatory gender training developed and implemented for an ACIAR project, titled “Participatory Gender Training Documentary – Experiences…
This brief is based on a review of the relevant literature, focusing on the roles women and men play in diverse aquaculture production systems and other value chain nodes, their relative access to and control over resources, intra-household decision-making, and social and gender norms and attitudes.
Watch this video Q&A with Catalina Santamaria, Forests Programme Officer for the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). She spoke to CIFOR on the sidelines of the 13th Conference of Parties to the CBD in Mexico on the role of gender in biodiversity sustainability.
To be held on February 2 & 3 at ICRAF headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya the purpose of this conference is to draw attention to the areas where there is still room for improvement with respect to (gender) diversity and inclusion and to find ways together to work on these improvements both in research and in the workplace.
Nearly half a million people migrated from Nepal in the last decade between 2000 and 2010. With men migrating, women are actively taking on roles which were traditionally held by men, for example attending community meetings. However, they face many challenges managing societal perceptions, juggling multiple roles and dealing with increased workloads.
CGIAR 2030: Training for Change begins with a ½-day of workshop for leaders in leading and managing organizational change followed by a two-day workshop for existing teams or working groups of leaders, biophysical researchers and gender researchers.
In a chapter of a new book on Gender and Forests published by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), gender researcher Priyanka Bhalla from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore examines women’s participation in India’s forest tenure reform process in the state of Odisha, and the ways critical events and processes have influenced their involvement.
