AFS Template for 6-month project progress update Project Number 108809 Project Title Generating evidence on gender sensitive

Climate-Smart Agriculture to inform policy in Central America

Reporting period 2019 1. Project summary Provide a description of the goal and key objectives of the project summarized in a few sentences and 3 to 4 bullet points depending on project objectives. The goal of this project is to support the scaling up of gender sensitive climate smart agriculture as a mechanism to increase resilience and improve livelihoods of vulnerable households in the face of climate related impacts. It contributes to filling the knowledge gaps on the gender differentiated consequences (in terms of access and control over resources, time use/labor, and participation in decision-making) of climate-related events on livelihoods, resilience and adaptive capacities of different types of households (including men/women/youth headed) in Central America. The project identifies adoption profiles of the most efficient and gender-sensitive CSA options, along with drivers or constraints to CSA adoption, and increases individual and organization capacities in gender sensitive CSA intervention. Specific objectives of the project (which structure the four main activities) are:

i. To generate knowledge and understanding on the impact of specific CSA options on the livelihoods and food security as well as adaptive capacity of vulnerable households in two countries in Central America (Guatemala and Honduras) in a context of climate variability

ii. To provide science-based evidence of the links between gender issues and adoption factors of CSA practices/technologies; both how gender issues relate to adoption of CSA and how adoption impacts on gender (in)equality

iii. To increase households, local level organizations' capacities to plan for and access, implement and monitor gender sensitive CSA interventions that increase climate and livelihood resilience.

iv. To feed science-based evidence from local level into national and regional policy dialogue and provide specific recommendations to guide the design and operationalization of gender and socially inclusive CSA strategy recently formulated by CAC.

2. Progress towards Results/ Outcomes (up to a maximum of 10 bullet points) Refer to the expected outcomes in the proposal and show concrete progress made to achieve both research outcomes and development outcomes. Identify the most significant and exciting results/outcomes/activities/products/events for the reporting period. This section is what you wish to highlight to IDRC senior management about this project. Focus on as many exciting results/activities/events/products as possible. Although projects may not have many “results” until year 2 of implementation, try to highlight the most interesting achievements of the project, not just a list of activities or milestones. E.g., instead of saying “inception workshop completed”, demonstrate that the project has the appropriate mechanisms in place to produce robust results, that local policy makers were present at the meeting, and showed strong interest in the project, that the gender strategy will help achieve that specific outcome etc. Here is the section on exciting achievements you want to communicate! x Include strong, quantifiable data that demonstrates the change that has occurred as a result of the project (E.g.:

productivity increase on income gains. If you want to use proportions or percentages, please do provide a baseline on which to assess the percentage e.g.: “farmer income increased by 10%” - please establish baseline: “from $100 to $110 per month”)

x For qualitative results, (e.g. how the project informed policy), please provide specifics. x Highlight any key international event/ communications/ presentations activity made by the project during this period. x Remember that this section should contain only useful and relevant information unique to your project. Senior

Management may use that information to communicate about this project, be selective. x Ensure to include up to date information. The project design reflected its aim to contribute to three long-term impacts (which, per definition will not be able to be measured in the short term): Outcome 1: Reduced production risk and increased resilience of vulnerable

households to climate variability and/or related stresses (e.g out migration) through enhanced capacities of men and women farmers to access and implement CSA options.

Outcome 2: Enhanced capacity of local organizations to plan for, implement and monitor gender-sensitive CSA interventions that help reducing gender inequalities.

Outcome 3: Improved adaptation and rural development policies at national and regional levels that integrate gender and social inclusion considerations

Intermediary outcomes reached so far (from local to regional levels) include:

x Five farming communities in Olopa (Guatemala) and 4 in Santa Rita (Honduras) are improving their CSA awareness and knowledge on climate risk management, use of climate information and informed prioritization of CSA practices. In 2019, the CCAFS work aligned to this project carried out 35 workshops in Olopa and 24 in Santa Rita.

x Two new local strategic partners (ASORECH and CASM) and stakeholders

are improving their knowledge and understanding of CSA options and a more science-based approach to prioritize the CSA practices to be tested and

promoted in the two study sites Olopa (Guatemala) and Santa Rita (Honduras) to maximize potential impacts on food and livelihood security, adaptive capacity and resilience.

o In 2019, 35 capacity building workshops in Olopa and 24 in Santa Rita were carried out supported by CCAFS science and outputs on: the use of Climate information for planning and decision making and the prioritization of CSA practices adapted to the local context.

o Additionally, in Guatemala, the gender work coming out of the project was incorporated as a special Module on Gender,Climate Change and CSA practices: establishing linkages, into the first postgraduate course “Diplomado: Enfoque de Territorios Sostenibles Adaptados al Clima (TeSAC) en el corridor seco del oriente de Guatemala” held in Chiquimula. A total of 33 participants from a wide range (17) subnational and local governmental and non-governmental institutions benefited from the course (Annex 5).

x Two new local strategic partners and local stakeholders are adapting their

interventions’ design based on their new knowledge and understanding of CSA adoption drivers, constraints and gender aspects in the 2 communities.

o In 2019 both partners did the planning of their CSA prioritization and evaluation activities based on their improved knowledge and the support provided by the project.

o Additionally, they both used the strengthen CSA work supported by the project to formulate new project proposals for their zones of intervention (beyond the Climate-Smart Village sites) which were submitted to the International cooperation (one to AACID o Junta Andalucia: “Condiciones de adaptación climática con equidad de género para la seguridad humana de comunidades de la region Ch’orti del corridor seco de Guatemala YAXAX SAK” ; the other one to AECID, or Spanish Cooperation: Fortaleciendo la resiliencia para la seguridad alimentaria con enfoque de género e interculturalidad para población Chortí en Chiquimula)

x Local strategic partners in Guatemala and Honduras are able to use the Role

games methodology to strengthened farmers decision-making and agricultural planning capacities based on climate information.

o In 2019, a workshop led to the co-designed and context-specific tailoring of the Economical Game approach which will be implemented by the partners themselves in 2020.

x Subnational level actors and stakeholders in Guatemala are able to identify entry points to mainstream gender sensitive CSA options into their interventions and are also able to identify further CSA capacity building needs

o This was fostered by the postgraduate course “Diplomado: Enfoque TeSAC en el corridor seco del oriente de Guatemala” and of the strengthened knowledge brought with the Gender module. 33 participants from 17 institutions benefited.

o 17 institutions participating in local level capacity building workshops (Annex 4)

x National level institutions in Guatemala are improving their CSA awareness

and knowledge on gender issues/dynamics that affect adopt CSA options increasing their capacities to better plan, implement and monitor gender sensitive CSA related interventions.

o At national level a 8 months participatory process led to the co-development of the Gender Guide in which 22 organizations where involved

x National level institutions in Guatemala (Ministry of Agriculture staff

including the Gender, The Climate Change Unit and the Extension team) incorporate new gender tools into CSA and/or agricultural development interventions.

o Participatory process for the co-construction of the Step by step Gender in CSA guide, that included three workshops (20-21th March, 30th May) in Guatemala City and Antigua. It involved extensive literature review and the active participation of 22 institutions.

o Guide published in August 2019 o Official launch with High level representative from the Ministry of

Agriculture: Sept 9th, 2019 o CCAFS blog post, CIAT blog post, Press release (Annex 2) sent to more

than 700 contacts including journalists, representatives from Ministries of Agriculture and Environment, wide range of environmental and agricultural organizations working in the region, research centers, universities and consultants among others).

o Distribution to the Ministry extension agents: Nov 18th, 2019 (See participants form in Annex 6)

x Strategic ministries and governmental institutions staff in Central America have improved knowledge and skills to incorporate gender in micro and macro level policies or CSA interventions

o CAC promotion of the Gender Guide and Official announcement in the CAC website

o Two webinars at Central America level led by the Central America Agricultural Council (CAC) promoted concreate instruments to support implementation of the CSA Regional Strategy with a gender lens. - June 25th 2019 : Presentation of the CSA Gender Manual to Technical

advisory group of Regional bodies CAC/COMMCA: See presentation - November 19th 2019: Monitoring results of the local level implementation

of CSA practices and technologies in Guatemala and Honduras and their effects on gender dimensions. See webinar recording

o InfoNote published and promoted: Examining gender differences in the access to and implementation of climate-smart agricultural practices in Central America.

Highlight of key results (Also see attached presentation Annex 8) Activity 1: Knowledge generation on the impact of specific CSA options on livelihoods, food security and adaptive capacity Outputs

x 2018 Data cleaning and analysis of household level adoption and perceived impacts of CSA practices in Olopa (Guatemala), Tuma-La Dalia (Nicaragua) and Santa Rita (Honduras) Climate-Smart Village was completed.

x Summary results on adoption and CSA options’ perceived effects are accessible at: https://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/100235

x The full data set of socio-economic and climate smart agricultural related indicators has been published online to facilitate and promote open access.

http://rpubs.com/g-bejarano/InicioOlopa http://rpubs.com/g-bejarano/InicioTuma http://rpubs.com/g-bejarano/InicioSantaRita

x Publication (Guatemala and Honduras Data sets):

- Acosta M, Bonilla-Findji O, Eitzinger A, Arora D, Martinez-Baron D, Bejarano G, Suchini JG. 2019. Examining gender differences in the access to and implementation of climate-smart agricultural practices in Central America. CCAFS Info Note. CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).

Key science-based results

x On-farm investment: Although male farmers are who mostly invest on-farm, women are the ones how invest mostly in climate related adaptation solutions for their productive system.

x Access to credit: Similarly women have ca. 50% less access to credit from formal institutions than male farmers, however most of the ones that can access (61% in Olopa and 59% in Santa Rita) used it to face climate related impacts (compare to only 28% and 44% of men, respectively).

x Access to climate information does entails its use and barriers to that use are gender and context specific. This stresses the need to deeply understand the socio-cultural context before designing climate information services that can be efficiently communicated, disseminated and “translated” into actionable inputs for decision-making. - Women reported higher or similar access to climate information than men, but they also

reported not been able to use it more often than men (54% vs 42% in Olopa and 20% vs 11% in Santa Rita), highlighting an important capacity/literacy gap.

x CSA adoption: The practices mostly adopted by female and/or female-headed households

included the home gardens, the home-gardens with water harvesting and improved beans (in Olopa). Irrigation was present in both types of households while solar driers associated to the coffee cash crop (in Santa Rita) were exclusively implemented by men.

x Participation in CSA implementation: Compared to women, male perceived having a stronger participation in the implementation of the practices tested in the study sites

x Decision-making related to the CSA implementation: According to women the decision to implement CSA practices was mainly a joined process in the Olopa Chorti community, but to lesser extent in Santa Rita (male driven for improved beans and solar driers)

x CSA effect on production and income: In general, both men and women perceived an increased in agricultural production and incomes related to the implementation of the CSA practices tested.

x Use of additional CSA income: was consistently devoted to pursue food (73-100% of male and 67-83% of female in both locations) highlighting the crucial role of CSA practices in improving food security.

This information has been disseminated to national and regional level partners including the Central American Agricultural Council (CAC) and the Central American Integration System's Council of Women's Affairs Ministers (COMMCA) to illustrate and guide the implementation of the Regional Strategy on CSA and the Rural Women Agenda, respectively (Annex 1). Activity 2: Science-based evidence of the links between gender issues and adoption factors of CSA practices/technologies Outputs

x Publications (Nicaragua Data set): Gender Equality and Trees on Farms: Considerations for Implementation of Climate-Smart Agriculture. 2019. Tatiana Gumucio, Diksha Arora, Jennifer Twyman, Ann Tickamyer, and Monica Clavijo. In: Gender, Agriculture and Agrarian Transformations Changing Relations in Africa, Latin America and Asia, 1st Edition. Edited by Carolyn E. Sachs Routledge 258 pages | 22 B/W Illus.

x Poster presentation in the CGIAR gender conference Seeds of change : “Understanding socio-economic aspects of adoption and effects of Climate- Smart Agriculture in Guatemala” (April 2-4 2019- Canberra University- Australia): https://ccafs.cgiar.org/publications/understanding-socio-economic-aspects-adoption-and-effects-climate-smart-agricultural#.Xe6whuj0mUk

Key results

x Proposed Integrated methodological framework to better understand the adoption of Climate Smart Agricultural (CSA) practices, gender-disaggregated motivations, and constraints in smallholder farming communities was presented together with preliminary results from the Guatemala case study. Those allowed to illustrate the type of analyses/results that can be obtained:

x Assessment of farmers typologies in the community (e.g 3 farmers’ type: adopting farmers, not adopting farmers, women adopting farmers)

x Identification of enabling/constraining adoption factors: (Gender, as well as age, climate perception, land ownership, position in the household, education, decision-making dynamics were key factors shaping the adoption types. Assets were the most frequently mentioned factor that enabled (type 1 and 3 of farmers) or constrained (type 2) adoption of the tested CSA practices in the study area.

x Gender CSA options preferences (More women than men adopted improved and drought tolerant variety of black beans and home gardens with water harvesting, while more men adopted drip irrigation)

Activity 3: Gender sensitive capacity building to plan for, access, implement and monitor CSA interventions Outputs - Subnational level

x Workshop for the co-development and tailoring of an economic game based approach with the two new local partner organizations Asociación Regional Campesina Ch'orti' (ASORECH) and Comisión de Acción Social Menonita (CASM) (Guatemala and Honduras). - Main objective: based on learnings from the initial pilot implementation held in 2018, to

produce a user friendly and contextualized instrument enabling to analyze and potentially influence farmers' perceptions and decision-making processes related to the implementation of climate change adaptation options while generating awareness about gender inequalities.

Communications

- Blog story: Playing to achieve sustainable agriculture:

Key results

Changes/improvement made to the initial structure of the game included: - In terms of player organization: it was decided to organize game sessions where women,

men and young people, play separately to be able allow for the comparison of responses from these different player groups.

- On the rules of the game: It was decided to organize a bank system with tickets for the purchase of the practices so that the players would have greater awareness of the costs and benefits of the different agricultural practices. The PICSA participatory methodology would be used to communicate a climate scenario in each round using a bag with beads of different colors representing the probability of occurrence of a climate phenomenon (in this case, El Niño/La Niña) and to provide guidance for farmers to consider the practical implications of this climatic event on their agricultural plans.

- On the support materials: Files and materials were modified to be more understandable,

introducing more images, replacing the numbers with drawings and giving more information about the potential of practices in scenarios of La Niña or El Niño, for example.

This exercise also built the capacities of the two local partner organizations to use this game based approach for supporting farmers’ awareness creation and planning in a context of very low literacy rates. By spring 2020 and prior to the sowing season, these two organizations (with CIAT/CCAFS team as backup support) will lead the implementation of the Game with farming communities of the two study sites so that it can support them in the decision making process of selecting CSA practices adapted to the forecasted climatic conditions. - National level

x Participatory process for the co-construction of the Step by step Gender in CSA guide, that included three workshops (20-21th March, 30th May) in Guatemala City and Antigua. It involved extensive literature review and the active participation of 22 institutions.

x Guide published in August 2019 Publication

x Acosta M, Bonilla-Findji O, Howland FC, Twyman J, Gumucio T, Martínez-Barón D, Le Coq JF. 2019. Paso a paso para la inclusión de género en iniciativas de agricultura sostenible adaptada al clima para Guatemala. Programa de Investigación del CGIAR en Cambio Climático, Agricultura y Seguridad Alimentaria (CCAFS). Wageningen, Países Bajos: Programa de Investigación del CGIAR en Cambio Climático, Agricultura y Seguridad Alimentaria (CCAFS).

Communications x Online/webinar: Presentation of the CSA Gender Manual to Technical advisory group of

Regional bodies CAC/COMMCA: June 25th 2019 (See presentation – x CCAFS blog post and CIAT blog post for Guide launch x Press release (Annex 2) sent to the CCAFS LAM database (more than 700 contacts including

journalists, representatives from Ministries of Agriculture and Environment, wide range of environmental and agricultural organizations working in the region, research centers, universities and consultants among others).

x Official Guide Launch in Guatemala with High level representative from the Ministry of Agriculture: Sept 9th, 2019

x Online/webinar: Monitoring results of the local level implementation of CSA practices and technologies in Guatemala and Honduras and their effects on gender dimensions. See webinar recording; (Annex 3 - Invitation and Annex 1 – List of institutions, ca. 70 people)

Key results The guide includes a section with basic concepts on gender and climate change and three operational modules with content and illustrations adapted as much as possible to the local context.

x Each module presents a series of steps for gender mainstreaming at different phases of the CSA projects/interventions cycle: during the design and formulation (module 1), implementation (Module 2) and monitoring (Module 3). The guide also includes a list of key questions and possible indicators according to the area of intervention.

x Distribution of the Gender Guide to extension agents of MAGA: Nov 18th, 2019 (Annex 6 -participants form)

Opportunities

In the short and medium term, the guide seeks to contribute to CSA interventions from the inception phase and throughout the entire project cycle, comprehensively introducing gender considerations with the final aim of contributing to reduce gender inequalities in the agricultural sector. Particularly, the guide will allow: 1) Strengthening knowledge and sensitize actors about the importance of considering the gender and multicultural dimension in CSA initiatives; 2) Provide a step-by-step guidance on how to integrate gender into the phases of design, implementation and monitoring of CSA interventions (eg programs or projects); 3) Facilitate the work of extension agents when implementing and monitoring CSA activities with a gender sensitive approach, and 4) Strengthening capacities of any actor interested in the systematic and comparable data collection on the interlinked issues of gender, food security, agriculture and climate change.

Academia/Youth -

x Contact established with the dean of the post graduated program on Sustainable Tropical Agriculture Dr. Arie Sanders in the Zamorano University in Honduras to motivate them to integrate in their curricula the topic on the nexus between Gender, Climate Change and Agriculture.

x As an input we have proposed to provide them a 2 days seminar on the 13-14th February 2020 to the ca. 32 graduate students and a lecture to undergraduates, as well as holding an exchange meeting with Zamorano academic board to discuss the development of a gender and climate change curriculum (Annex 7).

x Discussions ongoing with one of such MBs Student from Guatemala how is interested in doing an internship with us on the topic of Gender and Adoption of CSA practices. The proposed plan is that she could support the 2020 Implementation in Honduras of the Integrated methodological framework to better understand the adoption of Climate Smart Agricultural (CSA) practices, gender-disaggregated motivations, and constraints and incorporate this then into her master research (which would only finalized in 2021)

Activity 4 Engagement and collaborations to inform gender sensitive CSA policy processes Outputs

x Participation at the meeting of the CAC’s Gender Network with the presence of the COMMCA Secretary, Alicia Rodriguez, last March 2019 in Guatemala City.

x First approach COMMCA and IDRC (May 3d 2019) to explore broader collaborations. Both COMMCA and IDRC shared information about their work in Central America and agreed to share the most relevant information between them

x Development of a webinars plan in “gender and CSA” with the Central American Agricultural Council. June - Presentation of the manual on Gender and Climate-Smart Agriculture to the CAC’s Gender Network, COMMCA and key stakeholders of the SICA region and November - Monitoring the results of the implementation of Climate Smart Agriculture practices and technologies and its differential gender effects. Results from Guatemala and Honduras

x Guatemala, as former president of CAC, led the use of the Gender Guide to implement the Regional Strategy for Climate-Smart Agriculture for the SICA region (EASAC): promoting Dissemination of the manual across the region through an Official statement from MAGA Guatemala and CAC to key stakeholders in the SICA region.

Communications

x Blog post: Gender, climate change and agriculture: Guatemala leads regional dialogue x Official announcement in the CAC website

Next steps

x Together with CAC and COMMCA to support Honduras, as the next president of SICA, in adopting the Gender and CSA manual.

x Support implementation of the Rural Women's Agenda in 2020: - A tailored capacity building plan on CSA and gender (e.g. webinars, workshops); - An implementation plan at the local level of the RWA, through the Climate-Smart Village

(CSV) approach.

3. Challenges encountered/ Actions taken Identify and analyze 2 - 3 key challenges faced by the project team. Describe the action taken by the project to address each one of them.

x A challenge encountered was the need to focus on strengthening knowledge basis in the new partner organizations before been able to more into other type of more advanced capacity building activities (e.g games etc). We made the choice to move further (to 2020) some activities and stress the first demand/need. More than 25 workshops where held in each CSV site with farming communities; partners were trained on the games methodology + assisted a post graduate seminar.

x There is a strong demand for support by Ministries/Gender units that work with very little budget to move this topic forward. They often would benefit with more presence from our site but limited resources do not allow this and sometimes this delays a quicker progress on moving from intentions to actions (e.g promotion of Gender Manual to other national institutions). E.g. Event to organize an internal workshop with their extension agents they had to look for international cooperation support. This types of challenges slow down the impact pathway towards outcomes.

x A very negative effect of the exchange rate from Canadian to US Dollars which translate is a projected deficit of ca. 10k if compared with the initial plans. This will force us to adjust the 2020 budget lines and activity plans potentially compromising the level of ambition of the Project closure Event aligned with IDRC 50's. All adjustments will be documented and justified in the annual financial and technical report.

Action wise, there were adjustments in the timeline of two activities but this does not have any negative impact on the overall project plans:

x The Implementation of the Game methodology initially planned for the summer 2019 had to be postponed to next year due to the tight agenda of the local partners and because we estimated more appropriate to do it right before the next sowing period in Spring 2020.

x Similarly, the second field work and implementation of the Methodological framework for Gender and socio-economical analysis on enabling/constraining factor for CSA adoption to be done in Honduras, was postponed to Spring 2020

x The academic training on gender and climate change was initially planned to take place with CATIE in the last quarter of 2019. However, due to incompatibilities with their academic timelines, it was decided to cancel it. The academic training will now take place with Zamorano University in Honduras, in February 2020

4. Strategic priorities for the next 6 months Confirm your planned activities for the next 6 months, be selective, this is not the place for an updated work plan, but to get a quick understanding of the 2 - 4 main priorities of the project for the next period.

x Strengthen communication efforts to promote project outputs x Continue the promotion, follow and document the implementation of the gender

guide with extension agents of MAGA within the program PAFFEC and other potential institutions in Guatemala.

x Support CAC and COMMCA’s implementation of the Rural Women's Agenda in 2020 with a special focus in Honduras as pro-tempore director of CAC.

x Support mainstreaming of Gender topics into academic curriculum of Zamorano’s university in Honduras.

5. Key project numbers Those are cumulative numbers since the beginning of the project, please update only if the numbers have changed from the previous reporting period.

Number of farmers (women/men) Define how many women and men are testing or using the innovations/solutions

2017 adoption of CSA practices

Olopa (Guatemala)

Tuma-la-Dalia (Nicaragua)

Male 86 129 Female 110 122 Households 115 139

x Data from 2018 Monitoringactivity

2019 Olopa (Guatemala)

Santa Rita (Honduras)

farmers 136 95 x Data from local partners

Number of innovations/solutions Define how many solutions are being

tested/developed/proven/scaled up

x 2018: 4 (Gutemala), 5 (Nicaragua) x 2019-2020: 12 (Guatemala), 8 (Honduras)

Number of Masters and PhD students

x Internship: 1

Number of publications How many peer reviewed articles, policy briefs, or books have been published

x Book chapter: 1 x Policy briefs: 1 x Working paper: 1 x Capacity building material on Gender: 1 x Poster: 1 x Blog posts: 6 x Activity reports: 5 x Infografics (ongoing): 3

Other key numbers Include other numbers you think would be important to visualize with an infographic Total CSA beneficiaries Olopa ca.125 and Santa Rita ca.136 farmers Local level capactity building workshops:

- To farmesr: 35 (Olopa), 24 Santa Rita to farmers

Total farmers (men/women) benefitying from participating in capacity building workshops:

- Olopa: 19/106 Santa Rita: 91/45

- To local institutions: 2 Total local institutions benefitying from participating in capacity building workshops: 15 National level capacity building workshops: 4 Total beneficiaries: 78 Total participants (men/women): 41/37 Total national level governmental institutions: 20

Total NGOs: 1 # of communities covered by the project activities (4 in Honduras, 5 in Guatemala) # of households surveyed in the CSA monitoring exercice 2018 (in Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua): 146, 149, 147 # of national/regional level institutions to which the regional technical group of CAC promoted the use of the Gender Manual: 20 # of institutions targeted by CCAFS-LAM communications: ca. 700

Annex 1 : List of the mailing list from CAC to which the project outputs and webinar invitations are extended

1. Ministry of Agriculture of Belize. 2. Ministry of Agriculture of Costa Rica. 3. Ministry of Agriculture of El Salvador. 4. Ministry of Agriculture of Guatemala. 5. Ministry of Agriculture of Honduras. 6. Ministry of Agriculture of Nicaragua. 7. Ministry of Agriculture of Panama. 8. Ministry of Agriculture of the Dominican Republic. 9. Council of Women's Ministers of Central America and the Dominican Republic

(COMMCA). 10. The Nicaraguan Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA). 11. National Institute of Innovation and Transfer in Agricultural Technology of Costa Rica

(INTA) . 12. National Center for Agricultural and Forestry Technology of El Salvador (CENTA). 13. Regional Coordination and Rural Extension Management of Guatemala (DICORER). 14. Directorate of Agricultural Science and Technology of Honduras (DICTA). 15. Cooperative Department of Belize 16. Office of Agricultural Trade Agreements of The Dominican Republic (OTCA). 17. Belize Agricultural Health Authority (BAHA) 18. State Phytosanitary Service, Costa Rica (SFE) 19. National Animal Health Service of Costa Rica (SENASA) 20. General Management of Agricultural Protection and Health of Nicaragua

Annex 2 : Press Release

Annex 3 – Invitacion Webinar Monitoreando los resultados de la implementación ASAC y sus efectos diferenciales de género

Hora Programación Responsable

09:00 – 09:05 am Bienvenida de participantes y presentación de estructura y objetivos del webinar

Ricardo Montero

(SE-CAC)

09:05 – 09:25 am Presentación del sistema de monitoreo de opciones ASAC y ilustración de resultados de su implementación en los TESAC de Olopa, Guatemala y Santa Rita, Honduras.

Osana Bonilla

(CCAFS - CIAT)

09:25 – 09:45 am Presentación de las principales diferencias de género en la implementación de ASAC en los TeSAC de Olopa, Guatemala y Santa Rita, Honduras

Mariola Acosta

(CCAFS – CIAT)

09:45 – 10:00 am Preguntas de participantes y discusión general

Todos los participantes

Moderador: Ricardo Montero (SE-CAC)

10:00 – 10:15 am Agradecimiento a participantes y clausura del webinar Ricardo Montero

(SE-CAC)

Annex 4: List of institutions invited to the local capacity training workshops in Olopa and Santa Rita

x ASORECH x CASM x Children International x World Vision x Instituto Nacional de Conservación y Desarrollo Forestal x Plan Trifiño x Mancorsaric x EUROSAN x ACJ x OCDIH x CAFEL x IHCAFE x SES x 3 UMA’s

Annex 5: List of institutions participating in the Post Graduate Seminar with CUNARI in Guatemala

x Ayuda en Acción x Acción Contra el Hambre x Asociación Santiago Jocotán x ASORECH x Cáritas/Zacapa x Comisión de Acción Social Menonita CASM x COOSAJO R.L. x CUNORI/USAC x MAGA x MARN x Municipaliad/microcuenca del río Shusho x Municipaliad/Olopa x Municipalidad/Chiquimula x Municipalidad/Esquipulas x Oficina Territorial/CTPT x PMA x VISAN/MAGA

Seminario de investigación

Género, Agricultura y Cambio Climático: estableciendo nexos Horario del seminario y lugar El seminario tendrá lugar los días 13 y 14 de Febrero de 2020, en horario de 08:00- 15:00 h (13 de Febrero) y de 08:00-11:30 (14 de Febrero) en las instalaciones de Zamorano en Honduras. Introducción y objetivos del curso Entender las relaciones de género, y las desigualdades sociales que pueden derivar de ellas, es fundamental para cualquier investigación agrícola que tenga como fin contribuir a alcanzar un desarrollo sostenible de los territorios. Además, se prevé que los efectos adversos del cambio climático aumenten las desigualdades sociales ya existentes, con lo que resulta aún más relevante el incorporar una visión de género en los procesos agrícolas de adaptación y mitigación al cambio climático. Este seminario tiene como objetivo proveer a los participantes con unos conocimientos básicos sobre los nexos entre el género, la agricultura y el cambio climático. El enfoque práctico del curso permitirá a los participantes poner en práctica la inclusión de género en ejemplos concretos de investigación agraria bajo un contexto de cambio climático. El seminario combina ponencias cortas con actividades de aprendizaje grupales y discusiones. El curso utiliza ejemplos relevantes de investigaciones derivadas del Programa del CGIAR en Cambio Climático, Agricultura y Seguridad Alimentaria (CCAFS, por sus siglas en inglés) para examinar la temática de género en los diferentes dominios de la agricultura sostenible adaptada al clima. Resultados de aprendizaje Al finalizar el curso, los participantes podrán:

x Comprender la relevancia e implicaciones de las construcciones sociales y desigualdades derivadas en el ámbito de la agricultura y el cambio climático.

x Entender los enfoques actuales en los estudios de género, en particular con respecto a los dominios de la agricultura sostenible adaptada al clima.

x Integrar de manera práctica estos conocimientos en estudios de caso y futuros proyectos de investigación y de desarrollo agrícola.

Ponente Mariola Acosta es investigadora visitante de género, agricultura y cambio climático en el Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT) bajo el programa de investigación del CGIAR Cambio Climático, Agricultura y Seguridad Alimentaria (CCAFS). Sus intereses de investigación se centran en las dinámicas de género y otros factores de diferenciación social que puedan influenciar las capacidades de adaptación y mitigación de los agricultores de pequeña escala. Su trabajo se ha centrado tanto en investigaciones a nivel intra-hogar, como en análisis de políticas y programas de agricultura, seguridad alimentaria y cambio climático en diversos países como Sri Lanka, Colombia, Uganda, Tanzania, Honduras y Guatemala. Mariola es Ingeniera Agrónoma por la Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (España), MSc. de Desarrollo Agrario por la Universidad de Copenhague (Dinamarca), MSc. en Sistemas Agrarios Tropicales y Gestión del Desarrollo por la Universidad de Montpellier SupAgro (Francia) y candidata a doctora por la Universidad de Wageningen (Países Bajos).

Programación y lecturas recomendadas Día 1 – 13 de Febrero, 2020

Hora Sesión Lecturas recomendadas 08:00 – 08:30h

Introducción al seminario

x Actividad introductoria participativa ‘Caminos de poder’

x Objetivos del seminario

x Introducción de participantes

08:30 – 09:30h Cuestiones clave: nivelación de conocimientos x Breve historia del enfoque de género en la

agricultura y el medioambiente

x Conceptos clave: Igualdad, equidad de género e interseccionalidad

x Empoderamiento de la mujer en la agricultura: aspectos clave

x Mitos y imprecisiones de género en la agricultura

Arora-Jonsson, S. (2014) ‘Forty Years of Gender Research and Environmental Policy: Where Do We Stand?’ Women’s Studies International Forum 47: 295–308. Quisumbing, A. R., Meinzen-Dick, R., Raney, T. L., Croppenstedt, A., Behrman, J. A., & Peterman, A. (2014). Closing the Knowledge Gap on Gender in Agriculture. In A. R. Quisumbing, R. Meinzen-Dick, T. L. Raney, A. Croppenstedt, J. A. Behrman, & A. Peterman (Eds.), Gender in Agriculture: Closing the Knowledge Gap (pp. 3–27). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8616-4_1 Doss, C., Meinzen-Dick, R., Quisumbing, A., & Theis, S. (2018). Women in agriculture: Four myths. Global Food Security, 16, 69–74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2017.10.001

09:30 – 10:00h Pausa café

10:00 – 11:30h Género, Agricultura y Cambio Climático x Género, agricultura y cambio climático:

estableciendo nexos

x Necesidades prácticas y estratégicas de género en un contexto de cambio climático

x Género y agricultura sostenible adaptada al clima: vulnerabilidades y oportunidades

x Implicaciones de género en las prácticas de Agricultura Sostenible Adaptada al Clima (ASAC)

Alston, M. (2014). Gender mainstreaming and climate change. Women’s Studies International Forum, 47, 287–294. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2013.01.016 Kristjanson, P., Bryan, E., Bernier, Q., Twyman, J., Meinzen-Dick, R., Kieran, C., … Doss, C. (2017). Addressing gender in agricultural research for development in the face of a changing climate: Where are we and where should we be going? International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/14735903.2017.1336411 Gumucio, T., Hansen, J., Huyer, S., & van Huysen, T. (2019). Gender-responsive rural climate services: A review of the literature. Climate and Development, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2019.1613216 Arora-Jonsson, S. (2011). Virtue and vulnerability: Discourses on women, gender and climate change. Global Environmental Change, 21(2), 744–751. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2011.01.005

11:30 – 12:30h

Pausa almuerzo

12:30 - 13:00h

Cuestiones metodológicas en investigaciones de género, agricultura y cambio climático

x Preguntas de género clave en investigaciones de agricultura y cambio climático

x Análisis a nivel hogar e intra-hogar: implicaciones prácticas y políticas

Acosta, M., Bonilla Findji, O., Howland, F. C., Twyman, J., Gumucio, T., Martínez Barón, D., & Le Coq, J. F. (2019). Paso a paso para la inclusión de género en iniciativas de agricultura sostenible adaptada al clima para Guatemala. Retrieved from https://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/103254 Sen, G. (2010). Poor households or poor women: Is there a difference? In S. H. Chant (Ed.), The international handbook of gender and poverty: Concepts, research, policy (pp. 101–104). Cheltenham, UK ; Northhampton, MA: Edward Elgar. Doss, C., & Kieran, C. (2014). Standards for Collecting Sex-Disaggregated Data for Gender Analysis; a Guide for CGIAR Researchers. Retrieved from https://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10947/3072

x Complementariedad de los análisis cuantitativos y cualitativos

Acosta, M., Wessel, M. van, Bommel, S. van, Ampaire, E. L., Twyman, J., Jassogne, L., & Feindt, P. H. (2019). What does it Mean to Make a ‘Joint’ Decision? Unpacking Intra-household Decision Making in Agriculture: Implications for Policy and Practice. The Journal of Development Studies, 0(0), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2019.1650169

13:00 – 15:00h Casos de estudio prácticos

x Trabajo en grupo: diseño de propuestas de investigación con enfoque de género basado en contextos de investigación concretos.

Día 14 de Febrero, 2020

Hora Sesión Lecturas recomendadas 08:00 – 08:30h Finalización trabajo en grupo

x Diseño de propuestas de investigación con enfoque de género

08:30 – 10:00h Presentaciones del trabajo grupo x Evaluación colectiva de las propuestas de investigación y

debate dirigido

10:00 – 10:30h Pausa café

10:30 – 11:30h Conclusiones y clausura del seminario