1. Integrating Gender in Dryland
Systems Research
Aden A Aw-Hassan
CRP Dryland Systems Extension Proposal Workshop
Amman, Jordan, 28-31 March 2014

2. Strategic Focus
• Embed gender
– conceptually in the CRP’s systems framework &
approach
– technically & operationally in research cycle
• Ensure accountabilities for addressing gender
• Integrate gender in M&E and data
management

3. Objectives
On 22 March 2014 the CGIAR Consortium Office approved the Strategy.
In approving the Dryland Systems (DS) Gender Strategy, the CGIAR Consortium Office
stated its particular appreciation of the first two of the Strategy’s four objectives (section
5.2), which are central to the entire Strategy. In essence these are to:
• Apply/adapt/develop and implement more effective interdisciplinary methods to
integrate gender into ex ante diagnostic analysis, priority setting, and research
planning and implementation for the entire CRP (all 8 IDOs). Technology Cycle
• Improve knowledge of key cultural, ideological, normative and institutional factors that
lead to gender inequalities and undertake innovative development-oriented
participatory action research that may need to be policy-oriented to bring about
gender-responsive and transformative change in gender inequality (all 8 IDOs).

4. Provisional activities, outputs, outcomes for the GS 2014
Period Activities Outputs
2014
Q2
1. Workshop Gender Focal Points of all
DS participating Centers and Regional
Coordinators (26-28 May 2014)
2. Some Gender Focal Points to
represent the DS Gender Team in the
DS Science meeting 1st week July
2014, to contribute to mainstreaming
gender and socioeconomic issues into
DS systems framework
Specific gender-related
activities (and related outputs &
outcomes) for X Regions/Action
Sites/technological innovation
development programs.
Develop/agree methodology for
participatory action research for
promoting transformative
change in gender inequality,
and select one or more Action
Sites for piloting this
methodology in 2015.

5. Period Activities Outputs
2014
Q2-4
Identify capacity building needs,
design & carry out series of CB
activities for biophysical
scientists in gender issues and
analysis and for gender
specialists in basic science for
dryland systems
X no. of biophysical scientists
trained (by type of CB, and by sex,
region, etc)
X no. of gender specialists trained
in basic science related to DS (by
type of farming system/science
discipline, and by sex, region etc.)

6. 2014: Q2-4
Activities Outputs
Document successful
implementation of gender integration
in technology development and
adaptation –whole technology cycle
(identify cases for each regions)
Technologies and interventions with
much grater gender equity
Contribute 1 or more case studies to
the Consortium Office’s Gender and
Agriculture Research Network cross-
CRPs program on the Transformation
of Gender Norms in Agriculture and
Natural Resource Management.
At least 1 or 2 case studies carried out,
analyzed and disseminated (peer-
reviewed journals, briefs for DS
researchers etc.).
DS case studies used in comparative
analysis of all the CRPs’ case studies in
this cross-CRP program

7. 2014: Q2-4, Continues
Activities Outputs
Develop and implement a Gender
M&E system (and impact pathway)
within the broader CRP M&E system,
using the CO’s indicators,
supplemented where appropriate with
additional indicators specific to the DS
Program.
Collect/analyze data on these
indicators for annual reporting to the
CO.
Prepare analytical reports and briefs
on the progress on gender integration
and gaps.

8. Activities Outputs
On the basis of the CB and GWP
incorporate gender into ex ante
diagnostic analysis, priority setting
and research planning in X regions
or IDOs
X no. of research programs with
gender mainstreamed (by region,
action site, IDO, etc.)
2014: Q3-4

9. POWB Implementation
(expected achievements and indicators)
Performance
Indicator
CRP performance
approaches
requirements
CRP performance meets
requirements
CRP performance exceeds requirements
1. Gender
inequality targets
defined
Sex-disaggregated
social data is being
collected and used
to diagnose
important gender-
related constraints
in at least one of
the CRP’s main
target populations
Sex-disaggregated social data
collected and used to diagnose
important gender-related
constraints in at least one of the
CRP’s main target populations
Sex-disaggregated social data collected and
used to diagnose important gender-related
constraints in at least one of the CRP’s main
target populations
And And
The CRP has defined and
collected baseline data on the
main dimensions of gender
inequality in the CRP’s main
target populations relevant to its
expected outcomes ( IDOs)
The CRP has defined and collected baseline
data on the main dimensions of gender
inequality in the CRP’s main target populations
relevant to its expected outcomes (IDOs)
And
CRP targets changes in levels of gender
inequality to which the CRP is or plans to
contribute, with related numbers of men and
women beneficiaries in main target
populations

10. Performance
Indicator
CRP performance approaches
requirements
CRP performance meets
requirements
CRP performance exceeds requirements
2. Institutional
architecture
for integration
of gender is in
place
- CRP scientists and managers
with responsibility for gender
in the CRP’s outputs are
appointed, have written
TORS.
- CRP scientists and
managers with responsibility
for gender in the CRP’s
outputs are appointed, have
written TORS and funds
allocated to support their
interaction.
CRP scientists and managers with
responsibility for gender in the CRP’s
outputs are appointed, have written TORS
and funds allocated to support their
interaction.
- Procedures defined to report
use of available diagnostic or
baseline knowledge on
gender routinely for
assessment of the gender
equality implications of the
CRP’s flagship research
products as per the Gender
Strategy
- Procedures defined to
report use of available
diagnostic or baseline
knowledge on gender
routinely for assessment of
the gender equality
implications of the CRP’s
flagship research products as
per the Gender Strategy
- Procedures defined to report use of
available diagnostic or baseline knowledge
on gender routinely for assessment of the
gender equality implications of the CRP’s
flagship research products as per the
Gender Strategy
-CRP M&E system has
protocol for tracking progress
on integration of gender in
research
-CRP M&E system has
protocol for tracking
progress on integration of
gender in research
And
A CRP plan approved for
capacity development in
gender analysis
-CRP M&E system has protocol for tracking
progress on integration of gender in
research
And
A CRP plan approved for capacity
development in gender analysis
And
The CRP uses feedback provided by its
M&E system to improve its integration of
gender into research

11. Questions for group discussions
• Identify technologies or interventions with high opportunity for gender
integrations and which sites that these could be implemented.
• Identify cases where innovative development-oriented participatory
action research with policy-orientation can be implemented using
advanced knowledge of key cultural, ideological, normative and
institutional factors that lead to gender inequalities, to bring about
gender-responsive and transformative change in gender inequality (all 8
IDOs).
• Identify capacity building needs for biophysical scientists in gender issues
and analysis and for gender specialists in basic science for dryland systems

12. For group discussions
Case title Locations/
region
Describe main issues.
Technologies/
opportunities
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