ccafs gender strategy
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Implementing the CCAFS Gender Strategy
Patti KristjansonCCAFS Research Leader/Senior Scientist, World Agroforestry Center
Gender Investors MeetingParis June 15th
CCAFS Objectives
• Identify and develop pro poor adaptation ‐and mitigation practices, technologies and policies for agriculture and food systems.
• Support the inclusion of agricultural issues in climate change policies, and of climate issues in agricultural policies, at all levels.
Adapting Agriculture toClimate Variability and Change
Technologies, practices, partnerships and policies for:
1.Adaptation to Progressive Climate Change2.Adaptation through Managing Climate Risk3.Pro-poor Climate Change Mitigation
Improved Environmental
HealthImproved
Rural Livelihoods
Improved Food
Security
Enhanced adaptive capacity in agricultural, natural
resource management, and food systems
Trade-offs and Synergies
4. Integration for Decision Making
•Linking Knowledge with Action•Assembling Data and Tools for Analysis and Planning•Refining Frameworks for Policy Analysis
The CCAFS Framework:Research Themes, Outputs, and Impacts
The Three Focus Regions
South Asia:Parts of India, Bangladesh, Nepal
Regional director:Pramod Aggarwal
East Africa:Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, and Ethiopia
Regional director:James Kinyangi
West Africa:Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana, and Niger
Regional director:Robert Zougmoré
Adaptation Theme – gender contentObjective: Contribute to the design of processes, technologies and related policy and institutional frameworks for the adaptation of farming systems in the face of future climate uncertainties that reduce gender disparities in critical vulnerabilities, reduce female drudgery, and improve incomes for resource-poor men and women
Research questions: How might males and females be (differentially) affected by long-run climate change? What are their adaptation options and strategies (individual, household, or collective)? How might their capacities to adapt be different?
Risk Management Theme – gender content
Objective: Integrate consideration of gender differences into the development and testing of improved services and risk climate information products and management innovations so that these produce benefits for resource-poor women producers and traders as well as men
Research questions: What are the characteristics and causes of gender differentials in vulnerability to weather-related risk? What is the potential for climate-related information to help females and males to manage climate-related risk?
Pro-poor Mitigation Theme – gender content
Objective: Evaluate how selected development pathways, organizational, policy and financial arrangements and farm-level agricultural mitigation practices deliver benefits to poor women as well as to men Research questions: What institutional arrangements provide incentives for reducing carbon footprints (delivering environmental services), through improved SWLM? How are each of these institutional arrangements gender differentiated (e.g. how are benefits shared)? What could be done to make these institutional arrangements more gender-equitable?
Integration for Decision Making– gender content
Objective: Improve the gender-relevance of stakeholder dialogues, frameworks for policy analysis, databases, methods and ex ante impact assessment for planning responses to climate change in agriculture
Overarching gender questions re: Climate Smart Agriculture
Which climate-smart agricultural practices and interventions (including improved soil, water, land, crop, livestock, fish, ecosystem service and
agroforestry-related) are most likely to benefit women in particular, where, how and why? What interventions, actions, strategies and approaches will
help stimulate them?
Gender-CC work across CentresMost centers are doing participatory work of some kind, related to CC in some way, that includes gender aspects:
e.g. Bioversity, CIAT, CIMMYT, IRRI, CIP, ICRISAT, … on varietal selection/trait preferences•CIAT, IFPRI – supply/value chains•CIMMYT – conservation ag, food security•CIP, others – vulnerability•ICARDA, IWMI, WorldFish, ICRISAT, CIMMYT – climate risk management and improved climate services•ICRAF – institutional issues re PES•IFPRI – sustainable land management practice uptake, WEAI•ILRI, IFPRI – focus on womens’ assets
Most centres – adaptation strategies, but by women, men, youths, other disadvantaged groups?
CCAFS Approach
Review all this work within a broader social differentiation and social learning framework
CCAFS ApproachA technical advisory team is:•Identifying key research gaps/questions (applying to CCAFS but other CRPs as well)•Reviewing existing tools, methods, approaches (e.g. IFPRI’s WEAI, ILRI/IFPRI GAAP tools, etc)•Refining/developing new approaches; cross-regional training of teams that will implement new gender-targeted research, starting in CCAFS sites where other CRPs are also working
CCAFS gender-CC tools, data
• CCAFS baseline surveys – household, village, organizational levels, with various gender, age disaggregated indicators for measuring change over time
• Building regional capacity: FAO/CCAFS participatory approaches aimed at key CCAFS gender questions relating to risk, adaptation and mitigation
www.ccafs.cgiar.org/resources/baseline-surveys
Training of trainers approach started in India, Uganda, Ghana, Bangladesh; all training materials available at:www.ccafs.cgiar.org/gender
Research grants to local female PhD-level researchers looking at gender-CC issues
Hilda Ngazi – Tanzania Mitigating Climate Change through Restoration of Degraded Land. Ecology and soil fertility background. Hilda is currently a Principal Agriculture Research Officer at the Ukiriguru Agriculture Research Institute in Mwanza, Tanzania.
Gulsan Ara Parvin – Bangladesh Role of Microfinance Institutions to Enhance Food Security. Urban engineering, climate change and disaster management, and participatory community planning background. Gulsan is the chief researcher of Pathikrit, a Social and Human Development Non-Government Organization in Bangladesh.
Nani Raut – Nepal Role of Gender in Agricultural Intensification and its Contribution to Greenhouse Gas Emissions with Implications for Policy. Nani is an expert in watershed management and rural water supply, and is working with Kathmandu University in Nepal.
Arame Tall – Senegal Gender and climate information needs. Community vulnerability to hydro-meteo hazards. Arame is doing a PhD at Johns Hopkins School of Int’l Studies, and is affiliated with the National Meteorological Agency of Senegal.
Desired ImpactsIncreased livelihood resilience, improved food security, and enhanced environmental function
Changes In PracticesOne or more of the actor groups: use high
level scenario planning; use new or enhanced farming system technologies,
seeds and adaptation strategies; diversify livelihoods and diets; use new knowledge about inputs, finance, markets to change production, consumption and marketing
systems
Changes In Knowledge Attitudes And Skills
One or more of the actor groups have better understanding and/or skills in: the benefits and
value of new technologies and crop-livestock-tree systems; diversified livelihood and nutrition
sources, ecosystem function; land, water and biodiversity management, implications of climate change and adaptation measures, community involvement; how to work in
partnership across scales and sectors in an adaptive & problem-oriented way
OUTCOMESOUTCOMES
CCAFS Theory of ChangeCCAFS Theory of Change
Gender-focused strategies to achieve outcome
Inclusive engagement processes: e.g. future scenarios, climate analogues, improved seasonal forecasts (e.g. with women’s groups, networks), cross-site/project learning visits/workshops
Innovative communication strategies: e.g. communication experts involved throughout, research on CC communication, use of radio, soaps/reality shows, ICT’s
Capacity strengthening targeting women and youths: e.g. resource and network mapping, training of trainers in gender-CC research in CCAFS regions, gender-CC research calls, training female and youth community resource persons
Implementing in Cross-CRP sites
Proposal: Identify key cross CRP-cutting gender issues and refine existing approaches to capture them
Implement the new research jointly with other CRP’s in landscapes/basins/hubs that have been identified as CRP research sites
Take a 10-year learning approach and catalyze the use of engagement, communication and capacity strengthening strategies by all partners aimed at enhancing the likelihood of achieving outcomes (particularly gender-related ones)
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Thank you
CCAFS gender strategy is available at:http://ccafs.cgiar.org/resources/
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