Strategic partnerships +

learning approaches to

achieve gender & social

differentiation outcomes

Vulnerable

groups and

women have

increased

access to and

control over:

• Productive

assets &

inputs

• Information

• Food and

markets

• Strengthened

participation

in decision-

making

processes

Gender &

Climate-

Smart

Practices,

Innovations,

Scaling Out

Approaches

Gender

Mainstreaming in Climate Change,

Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)

Key Contacts

Impact Pathway

• Farm reality TV show targeting and informing East Africa

women, men and youth on climate-smart agriculture

technologies

• Mobile-phone based equitable irrigation advisory services

• Female and youth-targeted climate and ag information

services

• Participatory farmer-led videos sharing perceptions,

knowledge and adaptation strategies

• Testing new large-scale, inclusive crowdsourcing

approaches

M&E: Training in gender impact pathway analysis and M&E

strategies with partners

Identifying context-driven, appropriate tools, capacity

strengthening and generating new evidence:

• Cross-centre/CRP development of improved gender-climate

change research tools

• Partner trainings in 5 CCAFS regions, and cross-centre/CRP

implementation of new tools

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October

2013

Partners

• NGOs, e.g. PROLINNOVA and CARE International

• Other CRPs and Universities, e.g. University of Florida

• Climate smart and gender-oriented large development

programs and investments, e.g. IFAD, FAO, EU, USAID, Bill

& Melinda Gates Foundation, World Bank

• Governments and NARES

• International gender networks, e.g. WOCAN

We embrace key “Linking Knowledge with Action” Lessons

and Principles:

• Strategic partnerships and inclusive engagement processes

• Social learning approaches

• Co-developing research questions and approaches with farmers

• Gender transformative approaches

• Innovative communication approaches for scaling out

• Nested impact pathway development with partners and M&E for

tracking and achieving joint outcomes

Implementation: Innovative approaches for scaling

out

Achieving our vision: How we do the research matters

Equitable

Climate Info

Services,

Climate-

Informed

Safety Nets

The ‘What’

The ‘How’, ‘Where’ and

‘With Whom’

Inclusive &

equitable

institutions

supporting

‘Low

Emission

Development’

Equitable

policies and

institutions

for resilient

food systems

System-

level

Outcomes

Gender-

targeted

research in all

four CCAFS

research

areas

(flagships) Our Vision and

Gender

Outcome

CGIAR is a global research partnership for a food secure future

Jennifer Twyman j.twyman@cgiar.org

Patti Kristjanson p.kristjanson@cgiar.org

Chris Jost c.jost@cgiar.org

Website www.ccafs.cgiar.org/gender

Inclusive local forward-

planning action research

with NGO’s taking

gender transformative

actions

Equitable participatory

research with Met

Services and NARES

Co-process and co-

strategy development

with stakeholders

Strategic partnerships &

joint learning re:

innovative & equitable

mitigation actions and

institutional

arrangements supporting

LED by and for women

Inclusive learning

alliances/platforms;

strengthening women and

youth’s voices in farmers orgs

& their policy influence; policy

champions & enhanced

foresight analysis capacity