1. Policies, Institutions,
and Markets to
Strengthen Food
Security and
Incomes for the
Rural Poor
CGIAR Research
Program 2 (CRP2)
IFPRI
BIOVERSITY, CIAT, CIMMYT,
CIP, ICARDA, ICRAF, ICRISAT,
IITA, ILRI, WORLDFISH 2.10 – 2.25 pm

2. Overall Gender Strategy
• Rationale: Cannot achieve strategic objectives
without addressing gender
• Integrating Gender in Each Subtheme Research,
Outputs and Outcomes
• Strategic Gender Research Theme
1. Generating evidence and improving the information
base on gender in agriculture
2. Evaluating the linkages between agricultural/rural
transformations and gender relations
3. Applying gender analysis to policy reform and
implementation

3. PIM Research Portfolio
THEME 1 THEME 2 THEME 3
Effective policies and Inclusive governance Linking small
strategic investments and institutions producers to
markets
Subtheme 1.1 Subtheme 2.1 Subtheme 3.1
Foresight and strategic Policy processes Innovations across the
scenarios value chain
Subtheme 1.2 Subtheme 2.2 Subtheme 3.2
Macroeconomic, trade, Governance of rural Impact of upgrading
& investment policies services value chains
Subtheme 1.3 Subtheme 2.3
Production and Collective action and
technology policies property rights
Subtheme 2.4
Subtheme 1.4 Institutions strengthen
Social protection policies assets of the poor

4. Gender-related Outputs: Policies
• OP 1.1.2: Qualitative and quantitative analyses providing decision-support
for policymakers and practitioners in setting priorities for policies and
investments, including analysis of gender-disaggregated data
• OP 1.2.4: Identification of distributional effects on men and women of
alternative trade policies at global, regional and country levels
• OP 1.2.7: Country-level databases and tools for analyzing alternative
growth scenarios and their implications for income distribution, gender
equality and poverty reduction
• OP 1.2.12: Time series sectoral datasets of labor productivity, labor costs
and labor employment by gender for selected developing countries
• OP 1.3.13: Analyses of strategies and policies to enhance gender equality
• OP 1.4.3: Identification and analysis of social protection policies that are
gender-sensitive

5. Gender-related Outputs: Institutions
• OP 2.1.4: Identification of features that promote effective implementation of pro-poor
and gender-equitable policy decisions
• OP 2.2.4: In-depth analyses on how public services can be more gender-equitable, using
innovative gender-disaggregated data collection methods
• OP 2.3.1: Case studies and identification of effective ways of strengthening inclusive
collective action to empower women and the poor in managing natural resources
• OP 2.3.3: Case studies of land tenure reforms and identification of effective ways of
strengthening property rights to commons and customary rights of women & the poor
• OP 2.4.1: Case studies documenting how men and women accumulate assets and use
them to move out of poverty
• OP 2.4.4: Improved methods and data for gender-disaggregated analysis of assets
• OP 2.4.5: Guidelines for designing and implementing agricultural development
interventions that protect and increase women's assets
• OP 2.4.6: Capacity strengthening materials for researchers and evaluators on how to
incorporate gender and assets

6. Gender-related Outputs: Markets
• OP 3.1.2: Good practices for gender-sensitive value chain
upgrading available to all CRPs; specific institutional
innovations developed by CRP2 being tested in at least 2
commodity CRPs
• OP 3.2.1: Methodological guidelines on how to implement
impact evaluations for value chains, including assessment of
gendered impacts

7. Strategic Research on Gender
Uncover broader lessons
•Assessing experiences with gender analysis under individual projects
ollect gender-disaggregated data
Collaboration
trengthen information systems, with better methods, data, & analysis
• GCARD RoadMap
•Combining global CGIAR and local NARs expertise
riority on areas with high gender disparities
Africa, South Asia
evelop context-specific strategies for women’s
engagement and outreach

8. ST G.1: Information Base on Gender in Agriculture
Outputs Outcomes
1. Guidelines for improving sex-disaggregated Sex-disaggregated data collected
data collection available for widespread use
and used by national statistical
2. Toolkits on gender analysis for different
systems to guide policies
contexts and purposes, pilot tested with other
Appropriate tools for gender analysis
themes and CRPs
3. Analysis of sex-disaggregated data (including incorporated into research by CRPs,
existing datasets) NARS, and NGOs
4. Case studies addressing gender issues in
depth using mixed qualitative and quantitative
methods
5. Analysis of institutional demand for gender-
related data, and development of training and
communications strategy for national statistical
systems, NARS, and NGOs to use sex-
disaggregated data more effectively

9. ST G.2: Linkages betw. Agricultural/ Rural Transformations
and Gender Relations
Outputs Outcomes
1: Studies on the gender factors that Results and lessons from studies used
create and sustain change in by agricultural projects to address
agricultural societies gender issues
2: Gendered impact assessments of
agricultural R&D programs

10. ST G.3: From Gender Analysis to Policy Implementation
Outputs Outcomes
1: Interviews and case studies Gender-related results of CPR2
identifying major impediments to research used by key stakeholders and
attention to gender in agricultural advocacy groups in shaping
policies and institutions agriculture-related policies and
2: Training materials for stakeholders programs
to use improved gender-
disaggregated information systems in
gender analysis of policies and
programs
3: Communication strategies to
convey gender-related findings to
stakeholders

11. Examples
• Gender, Agriculture and Assets Program
– Conceptual framework helping other projects, CRPs
– Evidence that addressing the gender asset gap is
important for development outcomes
• Toolkit of qualitative and quantitative methods
– Going beyond “household”: interview men AND women
• Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index
• Collaboration with CCAFS on gender sites
• Collaboration with FAO, WB on nationally
representative data sets

12. Impact Pathways
Monitoring and
evaluation, impact
assessment
Development Implementation
community, Extension
services, of development
stakeholders, actions
advocates NGOs
2
Influence policy development
and implementation arena System-Level
Outcomes
1
Inform and enrich research,
bolster research capacity
• Reduced rural
poverty
Research Improved Knowledge • Improved food
outputs • THEME 1 Public Awareness • Farmers
• Media • Traders security
Research • THEME 2 • General public • Service providers • Improved
capacity • THEME 3
nutrition
and health
• More sustainable
Provide policy
recommendations 3 management of
natural resources
Policymakers, Policy
Policy analysts
ministries changes

13. Strong Capacity
• Cheryl Doss leads strategic gender research
• Supportive management team (majority women)
• Working group in PIM
• IFPRI Gender Task Force
• New Research Coordinator for capacity
strengthening
• Collaboration with other CRPs, providing
ideas, tools, evidence