aas gender strategy
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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
• Rationale
• 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 objectives
Gender equitable systems that enhance the resilience, capabilities and wellbeing of poor women and men
dependent on AAS
• 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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Our 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
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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
45
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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