1. Implementing the CCAFS Gender Strategy
Patti Kristjanson
CCAFS Research Leader/Senior Scientist, World Agroforestry Center
Gender Investors Meeting
Paris June 15th

2. CCAFS Objectives
• Identify and develop pro‐poor adaptation and
mitigation practices, technologies and
policies for agriculture and food systems.
• Support the inclusion of agricultural issues in
climate change policies, and of climate issues
in agricultural policies, at all levels.

3. The CCAFS Framework:
Research Themes, Outputs, and Impacts
Adapting Agriculture to
Climate Variability and Change
Technologies, practices, partnerships and
policies for:
Improved
2.Adaptation to Progressive Climate Environmental Improved
Change Health Rural
3.Adaptation through Managing Climate Livelihoods
Risk Improved
4.Pro-poor Climate Change Mitigation Food
Security
4. Integration for Decision Making Trade
•Linking Knowledge with Action -offs a
nd Sy
•Assembling Data and Tools for Analysis and nergie
s
Planning
•Refining Frameworks for Policy Analysis
Enhanced adaptive capacity
in agricultural, natural
resource management, and
food systems

4. The Three Focus Regions
South Asia:
Parts of India,
Bangladesh,
West Africa: Nepal
Senegal, Mali, East Africa:
Burkina Faso, Regional director:
Tanzania, Pramod Aggarwal
Ghana, and Niger Uganda, Kenya,
Regional director: and Ethiopia
Robert Zougmoré
Regional director:
James Kinyangi

5. Adaptation Theme – gender content
Objective: Contribute to the design of processes, technologies and
related policy and institutional frameworks for the adaptation of
farming systems in the face of future climate uncertainties that
reduce gender disparities in critical vulnerabilities, reduce female
drudgery, and improve incomes for resource-poor men and women
Research questions: How might
males and females be
(differentially) affected by long-
run climate change? What are
their adaptation options and
strategies (individual, household,
or collective)? How might their
capacities to adapt be different?

6. Risk Management Theme – gender
content
Objective: Integrate consideration of gender differences into the
development and testing of improved services and risk climate
information products and management innovations so that
these produce benefits for resource-poor women producers and
traders as well as men
Research questions: What are the characteristics and causes of gender
differentials in vulnerability to weather-related risk? What is the potential for
climate-related information to help females and males to manage climate-
related risk?

7. Pro‐poor Mitigation Theme – gender
content
Objective: Evaluate how selected development pathways,
organizational, policy and financial arrangements and farm-level
agricultural mitigation practices deliver benefits to poor women
as well as to men
Research questions: What institutional arrangements provide incentives for
reducing carbon footprints (delivering environmental services), through
improved SWLM? How are each of these institutional arrangements gender
differentiated (e.g. how are benefits shared)? What could be done to make
these institutional arrangements more gender-equitable?

8. Integration for Decision Making– gender
content
Objective: Improve the gender-relevance of stakeholder
dialogues, frameworks for policy analysis, databases, methods
and ex ante impact assessment for planning responses to
climate change in agriculture

9. Overarching gender questions re: Climate
Smart Agriculture
Which climate‐smart agricultural practices and interventions (including
improved soil, water, land, crop, livestock, fish, ecosystem service and
agroforestry‐related) are most likely to benefit women in particular, where,
how and why? What interventions, actions, strategies and approaches will
help stimulate them?

10. Gender‐CC work across Centres
Most centers are doing participatory work of some kind, related to
CC in some way, that includes gender aspects:
e.g. Bioversity, CIAT, CIMMYT, IRRI, CIP, ICRISAT, … on varietal
selection/trait preferences
•CIAT, IFPRI – supply/value chains
•CIMMYT – conservation ag, food security
•CIP, others – vulnerability
•ICARDA, IWMI, WorldFish, ICRISAT, CIMMYT – climate risk
management and improved climate services
•ICRAF – institutional issues re PES
•IFPRI – sustainable land management practice uptake, WEAI
•ILRI, IFPRI – focus on womens’ assets
Most centres – adaptation strategies, but by women, men,
youths, other disadvantaged groups?

11. CCAFS Approach
Review all this work within a broader social
differentiation and social learning
framework

12. CCAFS Approach
A technical advisory team is:
•Identifying key research gaps/questions (applying to CCAFS but
other CRPs as well)
•Reviewing existing tools, methods, approaches (e.g. IFPRI’s
WEAI, ILRI/IFPRI GAAP tools, etc)
•Refining/developing new approaches; cross-regional training of
teams that will implement new gender-targeted research,
starting in CCAFS sites where other CRPs are also working

13. CCAFS gender‐CC tools, data
• CCAFS baseline surveys – household, village, organizational
levels, with various gender, age disaggregated indicators for
measuring change over time
www.ccafs.cgiar.org/resources/baseline‐surveys
• Building regional capacity: FAO/CCAFS participatory
approaches aimed at key CCAFS gender questions relating to
risk, adaptation and mitigation
Training of trainers approach started in India,
Uganda, Ghana, Bangladesh; all training materials
available at:
www.ccafs.cgiar.org/gender

14. Research grants to local female PhD‐level
researchers looking at gender‐CC issues
Arame Tall – Senegal Gender and climate information needs.
Community vulnerability to hydro-meteo hazards. Arame is doing
a PhD at Johns Hopkins School of Int’l Studies, and is affiliated with
the National Meteorological Agency of Senegal.
Hilda Ngazi – Tanzania Mitigating Climate Change through
Restoration of Degraded Land. Ecology and soil fertility background.
Hilda is currently a Principal Agriculture Research Officer at the
Ukiriguru Agriculture Research Institute in Mwanza, Tanzania.
Gulsan Ara Parvin – Bangladesh Role of Microfinance Institutions to
Enhance Food Security. Urban engineering, climate change and
disaster management, and participatory community planning
background. Gulsan is the chief researcher of Pathikrit, a Social and
Human Development Non-Government Organization in Bangladesh.
Nani Raut – Nepal Role of Gender in Agricultural Intensification and its
Contribution to Greenhouse Gas Emissions with Implications for Policy.
Nani is an expert in watershed management and rural water supply,
and is working with Kathmandu University in Nepal.

15. CCAFS Theory of Change
Desired Impacts
Increased livelihood resilience,
improved food security, and
enhanced environmental function
Changes In Knowledge Attitudes
And Skills OUTCOMES
One or more of the actor groups have better
understanding and/or skills in: the benefits and Changes In Practices
value of new technologies and crop-livestock- One or more of the actor groups: use high
tree systems; diversified livelihood and level scenario planning; use new or
nutrition sources, ecosystem function; land, enhanced farming system technologies,
water and biodiversity management, seeds and adaptation strategies; diversify
implications of climate change and adaptation livelihoods and diets; use new knowledge
measures, community involvement; how to about inputs, finance, markets to change
work in partnership across scales and sectors in production, consumption and marketing
an adaptive & problem-oriented way systems

16. Gender‐focused strategies to
achieve outcome
Inclusive engagement processes: e.g. future scenarios, climate
analogues, improved seasonal forecasts (e.g. with women’s
groups, networks), cross-site/project learning visits/workshops
Innovative communication strategies: e.g. communication
experts involved throughout, research on CC communication,
use of radio, soaps/reality shows, ICT’s
Capacity strengthening targeting women and youths: e.g.
resource and network mapping, training of trainers in gender-CC
research in CCAFS regions, gender-CC research calls, training
female and youth community resource persons

17. Implementing in Cross‐CRP sites
Proposal: Identify key cross CRP-cutting gender issues and refine
existing approaches to capture them
Implement the new research jointly with other CRP’s in
landscapes/basins/hubs that have been identified as CRP
research sites
Take a 10-year learning approach and catalyze the use of
engagement, communication and capacity strengthening
strategies by all partners aimed at enhancing the likelihood of
achieving outcomes (particularly gender-related ones)

18. Thank
you
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