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Gender in Agriculture in the World Bank

Life After the Sourcebook

Pirkko Poutiainen, Victoria Stanley, Eija Pehu, Marialena Vyzaki, Lynn Brown, Sarian Akibo-Betts Gender in Rural Development Thematic Group

Gender in Agriculture Sourcebook (2009)

• Key tool to operationalize gender

mainstreaming in agriculture; a Joint World Bank, FAO and IFAD initiative

• Main audience is the technical staff in

agencies and governments

• 16 Modules. Structure: Overview (key gender

issues); Thematic Notes (proven investments that can be recommended for implementation and scaling up); and Innovative Activity Profiles (new innovative projects/activities)

• www.genderinag.org

“Closing gender

gaps is a core development

• bjective in its
• wn right. It is

also smart economics” “Equalizing men’s and women’s access to productive resources, could increase agricultural

• utput in developing

countries by 2.5 to 4 percent.” “The design of many development policies continues to assume wrongly that farmers and rural workers are men.” “By 2015, 100% of agriculture projects to include gender analysis; 75% to include gender actions and gender- disaggregated M&E”

Building on the Sourcebook Toolkit for Integrating Gender-Related Issues in Land Projects Updating the Sourcebook New Module on Gender, Agriculture and Climate Change Gender Issues in Monitoring and Evaluation in Agriculture

Responding to demand..

Forthcoming, Spring 2014

• Gender

mainstreaming in irrigation checklist

• Gender in

Implementation, AES Portfolio Review

• Toolkit on legal

barriers women face in the agriculture sector

The Gender in Agriculture E-Learning Course!

We welcome your feedback at:

www.genderinag.org

Pirkko Poutiainen, Senior Gender Specialist, AES Victoria Stanley, Sr. Rural Development Specialist, GENRD Thematic Group Chair, LAC Eija Pehu, Science Adviser & Gender Anchor, AES Lynn Brown, Gender Consultant, AES Marialena Vyzaki, Gender Consultant, AES Sarian Akibo-Betts, Program Assistant, AES