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AAS Ge n d e r S trate gy

Gender Strategy

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O ve rvie w

• Introduction to AAS• Our focus on Gender• Our strategy

o Rationaleo Gender Transformative Approach

• Structure and capacity• Some reflections

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AAS and C G IAR re fo rm

Research in Development

Gender

Impact Assessment

Innovation: Reaching those left behind by the Green Revolution

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O u r re s e arc h age n d a

Gender transformative approaches

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Wh y ge n d e r tran s fo rm ative ?

• Practice lagging behind understanding

• Technical approaches/gap filling – accept/reinforce inequity

• Gender integration without social change limits sustainability of impacts

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O u r go al an d o b je c tive s

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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O u r ap p ro ac h

• 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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Go ve rnanc e an d M anage m e n t

Program Overs ight 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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Ge nd e r C ap ac ity 201 2

Country program leaders

Three focal countries: Bangladesh, Solomons, Zambia

Country gender focal points

Hub development partners

Hub implement’n team

Hub gender research partners

Gender leadership

team

Strategic gender research partners

(ICRW, UEA)

Consultants

Gender Working Group

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Ge nd e r C ap ac ity 201 3

Country program leaders

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

Country gender focal points

Hub development partners

Hub implement’n team

Hub gender research partners

Gender leadership

team

Strategic gender research partners

(ICRW, UEA)

Consultants

Gender Working Group

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Re fle c tio n s

• 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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Th ank Yo u