*PRGA Newsletter issue No. 37 September 2008
Women at the Forefront of Change in Country
South African women are at the forefront of bringing about change and fighting poverty and underdevelopment, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said on Monday.
Poverty and Social Impact Analysis
Steen Jorgensen discusses achievements and challenges in mainstreaming the approach within the Bank and why it is a priority for the Social Development Department to shift attention to more country-led Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA). A successful mainstreaming of PSIA means that the question about winners and losers of policy reform is asked more routinely by all development partners.
Institutionalizing Gender-responsive Research & Development in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management through Women’s Networks
We are pleased to announce the Final Technical Report of the Small Grant Project 'Institutionalizing Gender-responsive Research & Development in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management through Women’s Networks '. Supported by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and led by PRGA Program and Women Organizing for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (WOCAN).
First Progress Report and Second Progress Report are also available on PRGA Program Publication section Gender & Stakeholder Analysis.
Gender and Climate Change: Mapping the Linkages
This paper, prepared for the UK Department for International Development’s (DFID) Equity and Rights Team, seeks to make the most of the available resources, pulling from them useful insights that could inform and strengthen future research on and interventions into gender and climate change.
New PRGA Program Publications Now Available On Line
Key Issues Discussed at the Workshop: This paper presents six key issues from the Rethinking Impact: Understanding the complexity of poverty and change Workshop (RIW).
Summary: Workshop on Rethinking Impact: Understanding the Complexity of Poverty and Change (RIW), held in Cali, Colombia, March 26–28, 2008. Summary.
New on the RIW workshop website
We are proud to announce that videos made at the Rethinking Impact Workshop are now available on the RIW website (section Workshop Videos) courtesy of Jim Weale, SCRIPTORIA Communications (the video-maker himself). The eight short videos cover a variety of topics, including Impact assessment knowledge, and reviews, opinions and conclusions about the 3-day RIW.
PRGA Program Medium Term Plan 2009-2011
Phase III (2008–2012) of the Systemwide Program on Participatory Research and Gender Analysis for Technology Development and Institutional Innovation (PRGA Program) builds on and modifies the Program’s revised strategic platform, developed in early 2007 on the basis of lessons from and achievements of the earlier phases (1997–2006), the recommendations of the Program’s first external review in 2006–2007, and detailed annual planning meetings and discussions within the Program’s Advisory Board (now known as the Program Advisory Committee, PAC).
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