Presented by Ranjitha Puskur (IRRI) at the CGIAR Gender Research Coordinators Meeting, Rome, 14-16 January 2020

1. Generating Evidence and New Directions for Equitable Results
RESEARCH IN THE NEW GENDER PLATFORM: WHAT
AND HOW?
Ranjitha Puskur (IRRI)
CGIAR gender research coordinators meeting
Rome, 14-16 January 2020

2. Reflect on..
• Our vision – research agenda to support
• What have we done so far? How do we build on that?
• What are the gaps? What are the new areas we would like to address?
• What processes and mechanisms have we used? What worked well
and what has not? How do we move ahead?
• Who do we work with?
• Capacity to support

3. Basic principles
• Platform supported gender research
• Not replacing Center/CRP gender research – but adding value to center/CRP
research and work in other Platforms
• Areas of interest to several Centers and CRPs
• Issues which cannot be addressed by a single center
• Opportunity to develop powerful cross-contextual and cross-system evidence
• Opportunity to capitalise on potential economies of scale
• Connected and collaborative
• Building on what has been done
• Space to seed new ideas, test theoretical approaches

4. What kind of research?
Supporting our Vision: Gender equality drives a transformation towards equitable, sustainable,
productive and climate-resilient food systems
• Strategic and integrated research (interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary) that is transformative
• Informs global food systems agenda
• Addresses the Impact challenge – promoting equality of opportunity
• Integrate intersectionality
• Climate change as a driver of global food systems and; influencing and being influenced by gender
and social relations
• Problem solving/solution-oriented rather than diagnostic

5. Stewardship
Relevance
Research
legitimacy
Scientific
credibility
• align to national and regional priorities,
the CGIAR SRF and the SDGs.
• relevance both within CGIAR and within
the wider arena of gender research and
development.
• address international development
priorities but also influence the
international policy agenda
• development of and
adherence to rigorous
standards and reviews as a
part of the work in modules.
• cultivate and sustain an
environment in which
excellent research by its
scientists is the norm
• push the theoretical grounding
of gender science through
each of its modules in order to
ensure that CGIAR gender
research is cutting edge.
• engage with and influence ongoing
processes such as the SDGs and
regional agreements, to ensure
effective uptake of research and
evidence

6. Types of outputs
• Evidence, knowledge, methods and tools
• Syntheses
• Meta-analyses
• Evidence to fill gaps
• Comparative analyses
• Harmonization of knowledge from multiple contexts
• Strengthened methods, frameworks and approaches

7. ‘platform’ supported gender research
• GENNOVATE
• Gender and breeding
• Gender dynamics of Seed systems
• GTA
• Feminisation
• Gender dynamics of value chains
• Work of 18 PDFs – diverse topics

8. CG Publication - upcoming
• Gender integration in breeding programs
• Gender dynamics in seed systems
• Women’s empowerment in value chain development
• Leveraging nutrition-sensitive agricultural programs for gender equality and
women’s empowerment
• Gender, natural resource governance and rights
• Gender and climate-smart agriculture
• From the feminization of agriculture to gender equality
• Measuring women’s empowerment
• Beyond Gender and Development (GAD) — how gender transformative
approaches in agriculture and natural resource management can advance equality

9. Process and mechanics
• Prioritising and topic selection –criteria and process used
• Collation of topics in annual meetings
• On-line survey
• Small grants requiring matching grants
• Proposals invited – competitive process
• Small grant to support cross-center author team to develop chapters
• Post doctoral fellows

11. Research areas – ideas from GENDER
Building an evidence base and new directions on women’s empowerment
– solutions and trajectories to reduce gender inequalities
• Gender and labor dynamics – formal labour markets and women’s engagement
– addressing invisibility to stimulate gender-responsive policies
• Gender and mechanization – migration and feminization – time use and
drudgery – energy use and nutrition - health implications
• Women’s economic empowerment – market linkages - entrepreneurship
development – financial inclusion
• Building resilience and understanding gendered trade-offs amongst
productivity, sustainability and equality in food systems
• Using big data - Gender at a landscape level

12. Research areas – ideas from GENDER
• Participatory people-centered foresight – how social and gender
relations are evolving in different contexts and expected to evolve –
major drivers and future scenarios – implications for GTA
• GTA- masculinities- engaging men; methods/approaches to scale GTAs
• Gender in water-food-energy nexus and sustainable intensification
• Women’s participation in rural institutions and decision-making
• Gender in resilience building and post-conflict situations
• Gendered dimensions of managing food waste and losses
• Strategic benefits of gender-responsive research in CGIAR

13. From ENGAGE
• Drivers of transformative change to empower women
• Gender and youth in food systems
• Technology access and women’s empowerment
• Gender and equity for nutritious and healthy food systems
• Resource rights and governance: what works to strengthen tenure and
assets
• Women’s voices: access to public services, civic organizations, and
government
• Addressing food waste and food loss as a gender issue

14. From yesterday..
• Food systems governance – engaging boundary partners, moving
beyond production
• More NRM research
• Systems approach
• Behavioural dimensions

15. Issues / to discuss
• Which research? Which focus? For whom?
• Our customers?
• The new impact areas?
• For the big lifts and their big projects
• How do we prioritise?
• Criteria?
• A framework or ToC based?

16. Thank you
The platform thanks all donors and organizations which globally support its work through their contributions to
the CGIAR Trust Fund
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