Description: Prain, G. de Zeeuw, H. 2004. Women feeding cities, gender mainstreaming in urban food production & food security. End-of-Project Workshop Accra, Ghana 20-23 September 2004.During this workshop, entitled Women Feeding Cities, we critically reviewed 15 cases presented by the participants in order to identify key issues in gender and urban agriculture. Also a priority agenda was developed with important aspects and actions that will need attention when integrating gender in future urban agriculture research activities, training activities, policy development and action planning and implementation.We discussed the concept of mainstreaming gender and identified effective strategies for mainstreaming gender in our own projects, RUAF and Urban Harvest. The review of case studies on gender and urban agriculture also resulted in the identification of improvements needed in the gender-differentiated framework and related tools that were applied in the case studies. In the process, we (re)discovered some important matters, which deserve to be mentioned here. We jointly came to understand that gender equality is about equal opportunities, equal choices and equal rights for women and men. Gender equality is crucial to development and, likewise, development is critical to gender equality.Differentiation of the roles urban men and women play in urban food production, processing and marketing, and the documentation of their specific interests, knowledge, constraints and opportunities, as well as the mechanisms of disadvantage (especially in existing values, policies and institutional practices) are critical to the design of effective policies and interventions aiming at urban food security (as well as human and socio-economic development).We also realised how important it is to discuss ways to engender our projects as well as to facilitate women’s empowerment; opportunities for women and men are not equal in most societies and therefore women’s empowerment and affirmative actions are needed in addition to engendering all research, policies and action projects.Furthermore, we realised that in RUAF and Urban Harvest we need both a comprehensive mainstreaming framework as well as a strategic plan that indicates how to make optimal use of the given resources. The participants developed a strong commitment to implement such plans, to carefully document and systematise the experiences gained and to exchange these experiences and other relevant information between the two programmes and with other interested persons and organisations.

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Ssendiwala, E.N; December 2008. Entebbe, Uganda. This is the final report for the gender position that was supported by the PRGA Program at ASARECA. The position was an outcome of the initiative Building Capacity in Gender Analysis and Gender Mainstreaming in the NARS of ASARECA. By the end of the project, it was apparent that a lot needed to be done to continue the gender-mainstreaming efforts at ASARECA—gender mainstreaming is a process. Since ASARECA had no established position for a gender advisor, the PRGA Program offered to support this position for 2 years. Having a gender specialist (or gender unit) is an important step toward gender-mainstreaming efforts. Although gender is a cross-cutting issue which all staff in programs and projects should address, it is important to have a gender specialist in order to ensure accountability, guide the gender-mainstreaming efforts and ensure that attention to gender does not ‘evaporate.’ The position referred to as Gender Project Support Person (GPSP) was located at the Policy Analysis and Advocacy Programme (PAAP), formally Eastern and Central Africa Programme for Agricultural Policy Analysis (ECAPAPA), a program of ASARECA.

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INTERIM PROGRESS REPORT: Institutionalizing Gender-responsive Research & Development in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management through Women’s Networks, October 2005 – August 2006, Report submitted to the CGIAR Systemwide Program on Participatory Research and Gender Analysis for Technology Development and Institutional Innovation (PRGA) on August 31 2006 by Women Organizing For Change In Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (WOCAN).

Gender Audit and Action Plan for Mainstreaming Gender Analysis in ILRI

Gender and social capital

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Building capacity in gender analysis and gender mainstreaming in the NARS of ASARECA Part 1

Building Capacity in Gender Analysis and Gender Mainstreaming in the NARS of ASARECA. Final Report

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Assessment of the Impact of Stakeholder Participation in the Diffusion of a Vertisols management