Making a difference in the lives of the poor

AAS Gender Strategy

Gender Strategy

Making a difference in the lives of the poor

Overview

• Introduction to AAS

• Our focus on Gender

• Our strategy

o Rationale

o Gender Transformative Approach

• Structure and capacity

• Some reflections

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AAS and CGIAR reform

Research in DevelopmentGenderImpact Assessment

Innovation: Reaching those left behind by the Green Revolution

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Our research agenda

Gender transformative approachesGender transformative approaches

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Why gender transformative?

• Practice lagging behind understanding

• Technical approaches/gap filling – accept/reinforce inequity

• Gender integration without social change limits sustainability of impacts

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Our goal and approach

• Gender integration across AAS themes• Strategic gender research facilitating change in norms, attitudes

and practices• Innovation and experimentation

• Operationalizing concepts and developing tools• Systematically testing interventions to understand what

works

Gender equitable systems that enhance the resilience, capabilities and wellbeing of poor

women and men dependent on AAS

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Specific Objectives

• To design and test innovative ways to reduce gender

inequalities in the range and quality of livelihood choices

and resources available to AAS dependent women and

men.

• To facilitate change in the norms, attitudes and practices

underlying these patterns of gender disparity.

• To demonstrate how this enhanced gender-responsiveness

results in equity, wellbeing and poverty reduction impacts.

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Governance and Management

Program Oversight Panel

• 4 women (including chair)

• 4 men

Program Leadership Team

• 6 women

• 10 men

• Gender Working Group

• Country Team leaders (3 women; 2 men)

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Gender Capacity 2012

Country program leaders

Country program leaders

Three focal countries: Bangladesh, Solomons, ZambiaThree focal countries: Bangladesh, Solomons, Zambia

Country gender focal points

Country gender focal points

Hub development partners

Hub development partners

Hub implement’n team

Hub implement’n team

Hub gender research partners

Hub gender research partners

Gender leadership

team

Gender leadership

team

Strategic gender research partners

(ICRW, UEA)

Strategic gender research partners

(ICRW, UEA)

ConsultantsConsultants

Gender Working Group

Gender Working Group

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Gender Capacity 2013

Country program leaders

Country program leaders

Five focal countries: Bangladesh, Cambodia, Philippines, Solomons, Zambia

Five focal countries: Bangladesh, Cambodia, Philippines, Solomons, Zambia

Country gender focal points

Country gender focal points

Hub development partners

Hub development partners

Hub implement’n team

Hub implement’n team

Hub gender research partners

Hub gender research partners

Gender leadership

team

Gender leadership

team

Strategic gender research partners

(ICRW, UEA)

Strategic gender research partners

(ICRW, UEA)

ConsultantsConsultants

Gender Working Group

Gender Working Group

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Reflections

• Humility and hubris

• Out on a limb – innovation + modeling

behavior

• How can we help people “get it”?

• Indicators of success

Gender balance in gender meetings

Bridging the social science skills gap

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Thank You