Participatory research and gender analysis are being implemented in many different areas around the world. The institutions, the purpose, and the way in which the approaches are implemented vary. As a result of several key studies commissioned/or conducted by the PRGA Program, as well as an extensive inventorying process both inside and outside the CGIAR, we now have a global benchmark of the quantity, quality, and scope of participatory research and gender-sensitive research being conducted around the world by different types of institutions.

Working documents

Smith ME; Weltzien E; Meitzner LS; Sperling L. 1999. Technical and institutional issues in participatory plant breeding from the perspective of formal plant breeding. A global analysis of issues, results, and current experience. Working Document No. 3. PRGA Program, Cali, Colombia. 118 p.

Reports

CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food, 2003. An overview of participatory research and learning processes and their relevance to watershed management and development. Paper commissioned by the Working Group on Participatory Natural Resource Management of the CGIAR Systemwide Program on Participatory Research and Gender Analysis.

CGIAR Systemwide Program on Participatory Research and Gender Analysis (PRGA Program). 1999. Crossing perspectives: Farmers and scientists in participatory plant breeding. Cali, Colombia. 46 p.

CGIAR Systemwide Program on Participatory Research and Gender Analysis (PRGA Program). 2000. Women and agricultural technology: report of a preliminary search for nodes of information and literature. Cali, Colombia.

CGIAR Systemwide Program on Participatory Research and Gender Analysis (PRGA Program). 2002. Final Report. Assessing the benefits or rural women's participation in natural resource management and capacity - building. Cali, Colombia. 60 p.

CGIAR Systemwide Program on Participatory Research and Gender Analysis (PRGA Program). 2002. PRGA Program Phase 1 (1997-2002). Synthesis. Cali, Colombia. 5 p.

PRGA Program, CGIAR. 2002. PRGA Program: synthesis of Phase I (1997-2002). Prepared by Nadine Saad. PRGA Program; CIAT, Cali, Colombia. (Version with color illus. and photos published in 2003.) (1)

Other publications

Saad N. 2003. 5-Year Synthesis Report 1997-2000. CGIAR Systemwide Program on Participatory Research and Gender Analysis (PRGA Program). Cali, Colombia. 56 p.

Weltzien-Rattunde E; Smith M; Meitzner L; Sperling L. 2003. Technical and institutional issues in participatory plant breeding from the perspective of formal plant breeding. (Series: A global analysis of issues, results, and current experience.) PRGA Program, Cali, Colombia.