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What is different about gender research?
• It looks within the household: women and men, boys and girls
• It looks beyond the household: context, institutions, policies matter
• Evidence-based• Iterative: synthesizes learning from interventions and policies and
coordinates knowledge exchange• Integrative: Combines qualitative and quantitative work• Holistic: Both women and men, girls and boys
What makes IFPRI gender research
different?
• Cross-cutting: from land to water, households to communities to value chains, nutrition to education, and across the lifecycle!
• Spotlights data gaps (e.g. land rights) and provides guidance for filling those gaps (both conceptual guidance and concrete tools like survey modules)
• Integrated across all of IFPRI’s major research programs/themes
What makes IFPRI gender research
different?
• Not afraid to challenge paradigms– 1990s: the unitary model
of the household collective
– Today: only individual decisionmaking or ownership matters jointness
• Not afraid to measure the unmeasurable– Women’s Empowerment in
Agriculture Index (WEAI)
What makes IFPRI
gender research
different?
• Changed development paradigms about targeting head of household– PROGRESA and subsequent waves of
targeted CCTs
• Incorporated into programming to reduce gender gaps– Both national and local levels
• Shifted objectives of programming and measurement to focus on assets and empowerment – Ex: design of new Bangladesh Min. of
Ag pilot project informed by WEAI baseline data
How has IFPRI’s gender research made a
difference?