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Do you want to be updated about gender research across CGIAR? Our quarterly newsletter features links to selected publications, reports about the webinars organized by the Platform and upcoming events. Be sure to be updated and subscribe to our mailinglist.

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International Day of Rural Women 2020

How is One CGIAR supporting rural women during times of crises? Examples span from distributing high-iron and zinc bean varieties to women farmers to overturning cultural beliefs hampering women from providing animal health services.

CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research Newsletter December 2019, issue 12

Welcome to the twelfth issue of the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research’s quarterly newsletter! This is a special newsletter issue as it also happens to be the very last issue produced by the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research. From 2020 onwards, the successor to this Platform (the ‘Generating Evidence and New Directions for Equitable Results [GENDER] platform’) will…

Cynthia McDougall (photo credit: WorldFish Center)

The Pulse: Cynthia McDougall

What is on the minds of leading CGIAR researchers as they integrate gender perspectives in pursuit of system-wide objectives? I would answer this question in two ways. The first relates to an observation from the recent WorldFish Science Week. At that event, I ran a World Café table on gender integration. As staff and partners rotated through, I shared highlights from…

CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research Newsletter September 2019, issue 11

Welcome to the eleventh issue of the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research’s quarterly newsletter! Rhiannon Pyburn, Coordinator of the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research, introduces us to the latest and greatest news from CGIAR gender research over the past three months! ‘The Pulse‘ features Marlène Elias, Gender Research Coordinator for the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and…

The Pulse: Marlène Elias

What is on the minds of leading CGIAR researchers as they integrate gender perspectives in pursuit of system-wide objectives? Gender inequality is a wicked problem. Its roots are deep and it is embedded in formal and informal institutions – in ideologies, policies, and markets – across sectors and scales. It is context- and culture-specific, so it is manifested through and affects…

CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research newsletter. Issue #10, June 2019

CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research Newsletter July 2019, issue 10

Here is the tenth issue of the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research’s quarterly newsletter! This is a special issue covering the recent ‘Seeds of Change’ conference, as usual prefaced by Rhiannon Pyburn, Coordinator of the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research, for a broad sweep of recent news on the CGIAR Gender Platform and Research front! For this special…

Katrina Kosec (photo credit: IFPRI)

The Pulse: Katrina Kosec

What is on the minds of leading CGIAR researchers as they integrate gender perspectives in pursuit of system-wide objectives? More rigorous research is needed on the drivers of gender norms, with particular attention to norms which tend to limit women’s decision-making authority and ability to participate fully in economic and civic life. A host of factors may contribute to norm change.…