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Organizing
Committee
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Biermayr-Jenzano, Patricia
Coordinator,
Program on Participatory Research and Gender Analysis
(PRGA Program).
p.biermayr@cgiar.org
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Garcia, Claudia
Assistant
Coordinator, Program on Participatory Research and
Gender Analysis (PRGA Program).
cxgarcia@cgiar.org |
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Cardona,
Angela
Communications
Assistant, Program on Participatory Research and
Gender Analysis (PRGA Program).
a.m.cardona@cgiar.org
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Escobar,
Freddy
Program
Assistant, Program on Participatory Research and
Gender Analysis (PRGA Program).
f.pinto@cgiar.org
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Workshop
Facilitators
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Staiger, Simone
CIAT,
Learning and Knowledge Sharing
Simone
is a knowledge sharing specialist. She is a trained
social communicator with 13 years' experience in the
coordination of international communications projects.
Her interest lies in the enhancement of collaboration
in institutional settings that contribute to organizational
learning and change in agricultural research for development.
Simone has been working for CIAT and the CGIAR through
ICT-KM Program for 9 years.
s.staiger@cgiar.org |
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Alvarez, Sophie
CIAT,
Learning and Knowledge Sharing
Sophie is a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) specialist with training in sustainable development. Working in the Challenge Program on Water and Food and as a consultant for several other CG centers and non-CG programs, Sophie has participated in the development of a participatory planning and impact assessment methodology-the Participatory Impact Pathways Approach. Her main areas of expertise are the facilitation of participatory processes and research related to M&E frameworks and social network analysis. Sophie has been linked with CIAT for 6 years.
b.s.alvarez@cgiar.org |
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Tehelen,
Katherine
CIAT,
Learning and Knowledge Sharing
Katherine has a Master on Science in Environmental
Socioeconomics, and has worked in development projects
with young researchers in leadership and food security
in Colombia. Additionally, she has gained valuable
experience in the areas of financial administration
of projects; presentation and analysis of financial
data; analysis and management of databases. As part
of her work developing and applying the PIPA approach,
she has developed valuable skills in the use of monitoring
and evaluation methodologies, social network analysis,
and participatory-socioeconomic evaluation. Katherine
has been working for CIAT for 9 years.
k.tehelen@cgiar.org
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Workshop
Consultants
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Manners, Guy
Guy
is a freelance science editor and writer. He previously
worked for NRI (UK), IRA & IRZV (Cameroon), ICARDA and
AfricaRice. Guy has been PRGA Program's communications
consultant since 2005.
g.r.manners@cgiar.org |
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Fernandez, Maria
María worked with the PRGA Program facilitating access to capacity-building in gender and diversity with a focus on multi-stakeholder involvement. She has lectured at the Agricultural University of Wageningen in the Netherlands and is the co-founder of the Institute for Sustainable Smallholder Production Systems and the Master's program "Agrarian Innovation for Rural Development" at the National Agrarian University in Lima. She contributed to the International Assessment on Science and Technology for International Development (IAA STD) and is currently working freelance on rural innovation, gender and participation.
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Invited
Participants
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Almekinders, Conny
Wageningen
University
Conny
Almekinders graduated as crop physiologist from Wageningen
University in 1983. From 1983 until 1989 she worked
at the International Potato Center (CIP), Peru. At
present, she is affiliated to the chairgroup Technology
and Agrarian Development, Wageningen University. She
deals with the design, implementation and study of
participatory approaches in plant breeding and seed
production, and agricultural technology development
in general.
Conny.Almekinders@wur.nl
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Amaya, Karen
Bioversity
International
Karen
works as a Scientific Assistant in Bioversity International.
She is a biologist with an MSc in Agricultural Development
and currently supports different projects on Andean
grains, cacao and capsicum.
k.amaya@cgiar.org
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Aw-Hassan, Aden
ICARDA
Aden is an agricultural economist, currently Director of Social, Economics and Policy Research Program, ICARDA. He has research experience in extension, livelihoods and poverty analysis, adoption and impact assessment, natural resource management.
a.aw-hassan@cgiar.org
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Baena, Margarita
Bioversity
International
Margarita is engaged in regional and institutional
initiatives oriented toward managing and disseminating
knowledge and information, delivering training, and
developing training support materials, among others.
She is the editor of "Bioversity in the Americas,"
an electronic news update, and the former IPGRI Newsletter
for the Americas. Margarita has promoted and coordinated
the publication in Spanish of Bioversity's handbooks
for genebanks, learning modules and guidelines to
regenerate germplasm.
m.baena@cgiar.org
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Behrman, Julia
IFPRI
Julia joined IFPRI in 2009 as a Senior Research Assistant to the Gender Task Force and Strengthening Women's Assets Research Program. Prior to joining IFPRI, she worked on gender issues as a consultant for a number of organizations including the World Bank, Economic Development Initiatives, Women Living Under Muslim Laws and Institute for Fiscal Studies. She holds an MSc in Social Anthropology and Development Studies from the London School of Economics.
j.behrman@cgiar.org
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Borja, Ross M
ECKO
Rural
Ross
is Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist and Director, EkoRural Foundation. Expertise in Capacity building, Planning and participatory research.
rossborjab@gmail.com
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Campilan, Dindo
CIP
Dindo is Social scientist in participatory gender-responsive agricultural research for root and tuber crop livelihoods, currently engaged in Asia-wide projects for value-chain development and food-nutrition security.
d.campilan@cgiar.org
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Ceccarelli,
Salvatore
ICARDA
Salvatore is part-time consultant in barley breeding with ICARDA (Aleppo, Syria).
s.ceccarelli@cgiar.org
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Dixon,
John
PRGA
Program Advisory Committee
John has experience with sustainable agricultural research and development in all developing regions with FAO/UN, CIMMYT and ACIAR, strongly oriented to equitable social and gender outcomes through participatory and systems research and impact assessment.
dixon@aciar.gov.au
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Echeverria, Ruben
CIAT
Ruben
G. Echeverría has been Director General of CIAT since
2009. Dr Echeverría has a PhD in Agricultural and Applied
Economics from the University of Minnesota, USA. His
studies covered agricultural development, agricultural
science and technology policy and econometrics.
r.echeverria@cgiar.org
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Gonzalez, Alonso
CIAT
Alonso is a Plant Physiologist, leading the Tropical
Fruits Project at CIAT since 2005. The project focuses
in developing technologies, knowledge and institutional
arrangements to improve income and livelihoods through
increasing the competitiveness of tropical fruit producers.
a.gonzales@cgiar.org
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Gonzales, Tirso
University
of British Columbia
Tirso has a PhD in Sociology/Rural Sociology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is Peruvian of Aymara descent. His accumulated work experience as scholar, international consultant and activist has allowed him to work closely with indigenous peoples, indigenous agricultures, international agriculture and indigenous-peoples issues in the Americas. Currently he is an assistant professor of Indigenous Studies at the University of British Columbia (Okanagan, Canada). He contributed to the International Assessment on Science and Technology for International Development (IAASTD): Synthesis Report (Traditional and Local Knowledge and Community-based Innovations), SubGlobal Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) Report, and Summary for Decision Makers LAC Report.
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Grando,
Stefania
ICARDA
Stefania
is barley breeder at ICARDA with more than 25 years
of experience in crop improvement. She is actively involved
in research to enhance productivity of barley in developing
countries.
s.grando@cgiar.org |
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Gurung,
Jeannette
WOCAN
Jeannette
is a forester and gender and development expert whose
career has focused on leading organizational change
for gender equality within agriculture and natural-resource
management organizations in Asia and Africa. She is
founder and director of Women Organizing for Change
in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (WOCAN).
jeannettegurung@wocan.org |
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Hesse,
Edith
CIAT
Head Corporate Communications and Capacity Strengthening.
e.hesse@cgiar.org
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Hoang
Mai, Yen
CIFOR
Yen is an Associate Professional Officer, funded by the Dutch Government to work on incorporating gender in CIFOR's research.
m.hoangyen@cgiar.org
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Lundy, Mark
CIAT
Mark is a researcher at CIAT. His work focuses on rural
enterprise development with smallholder farmers and
the establishment of learning networks to increase capacities
for inclusive enterprise development.
m.lundy@cgiar.org |
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Mapedza,
Everisto
IWMI
Everisto joined the International Water Management
Institute (IWMI) in 2006 as a Social and Institutional
Researcher. More recently, he has become part of the
Gender Team within IWMI. Everisto has researched on
the Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous
Resources (CAMPFIRE), which is a community based natural-resource
management program. Everisto has also worked on a
number of IWMI's Land and Water Projects in Africa.
e.mapedza@CGIAR
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Muchiri,
Esther
EAPIC
- East African Phytosanitary Information Committee
Esther is the Chairperson of the East African Phytosanitary Information Committee (EAPIC) that is developing a secure plant pest information database to facilitate trade and food security. She worked for USAID/EA for 18 years as a regional ICT specialist.
emuchiri@andestbites.com
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Mwangi,
Esther
CIFOR
Esther is a scientist in CIFOR's Forest and Governance
Program. She leads CIFOR's property rights/tenure program
and is CIFOR's focal point for gender research. Esther
has worked for IFPRI and ICRAF. She holds a PhD in Public
Policy from Indiana University and was a fellow in Harvard
University's Sustainability Science Program.
e.mwangi@cgiar.org
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Njenga, Mary
ICRAF
Mary is a Kenyan agricultural researcher who specializes in participatory research as applied to rural and urban farming communities. While at Urban Harvest in 2002-2009, she played a significant role of mainstreaming gender in Urban Harvest and CIP's research-for-development projects, as well as in the organizational culture of the two institutions. Mary has authored and co-authored many publications on gender and urban agriculture, bringing out the research, development and policy issues in respect to the needs of women and men including the young and old.
m.njenga@cgiar.org
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Olinga,
Forough
ASARECA
Forough is the Gender expert at the Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA). She has an MA in women and gender studies (Makerere University, Uganda) and extensive consulting experience on gender, development and agriculture in the region. Previously, she was gender advisor in MS-Uganda and worked with FAO, DANIDA and NARO as gender specialist.
f.olinga@asareca.org
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Osorio,
Martha
Gender
and Rural Development Officer, FAO
Martha is a Gender and Development Officer in the Gender, Equity and Rural Employment Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Rome. She is an economist with a focus on rural development. She works mainly in research and analysis of gender and social inequalities in rural settings in order to provide support to countries in the formulation of gender-sensitive policies for agriculture and food security. She conducts research on agriculture-related subjects, where gender considerations are relevant, such as rural labor, income-generating opportunities, and access to and control over land and other natural resources. She has developed policy-support tools for gender-sensitive policy formulation for agriculture and food security.
Martha.Osorio@fao.org
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Oyarzun,
Pedro
ECKO
Rural
Pedro is a specialist in Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods. His fields of expertise are: plant-water interactions, integrated pest management, food security in the Andean Region and Europe.
poyarzun@ekorural.org
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Paris, Thelma
IRRI
Thelma
is a Senior Scientist (Socio-economist and Gender Specialist)
and Deputy Division Head of Social Sciences Division
of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI),
Philippines. She is responsible for mainstreaming gender
concerns in strategic, adaptive/participatory research
in varietal improvement and crop management, and coordinates
the leadership course for Asian women. She has a PhD
in Social Ecology from University of Western Sydney,
Australia and an MS in Agricultural Economics from the
University of the Philippines, Los Baños. She has received
of many local and international awards.
t.paris@cgiar.org
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Peterman,
Amber
IFPRI
Amber's
research focuses on gender and economic development
with special focus on maternal health, nutrition and
property rights. She currently works on a program to
strengthen women's access to productive assets and human
capital formation, and has a focus on Sub-Saharan Africa.
She holds a PhD in Public Policy and a BA in Economics
from University of North Carolina.
a.peterman@cgiar.org
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Peters,
Dai
Catholic Relief Services (CRS)
Dai works for the Catholic Relief Services as the project director of the Gates Foundation-funded Great Lakes Cassava Initiative (GLCI) which has a gender and diversity component.
dpeters@earo.crs.org
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Portilla,
Melania
Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture
Melania has been Rural Development Specialist at the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) since 2002. She is a social anthropologist with an MSc in Development Studies (ISS, the Netherlands) and is currently pursuing a PhD in Cultural and Social Studies (UCR, Costa Rica). At IICA, she works on gender, culture and social issues within the territorial approach to rural development, and has served in more than 70 technical cooperation missions. She is also a visiting lecturer at the Anthropology Department of UCR and in the Regional Masters Degree Program on Rural Development at the National University (UNA) in Costa Rica. As author, she has published several articles and a book (2005), The Social Management of Rural Territories, Experiences from Maranhao, Brasil.
melania.portilla@iica.int
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Quiros,
Carlos
CIAT
Carlos has been working at CIAT for over 28 years. Since
2006, he has been the general coordinator of the Andean
Change Alliance Program (funded by DFID), which studies,
analyzes, builds capacity and implements effective participatory
methodologies for the inclusion of the poorest in the
processes of technological innovation for the achievement
of evidence to show the impact on government policies.
c.quiros@cgiar.org
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Rajasekharan, Maya
CIAT
Maya is a Program Officer at CIAT. She coordinates and supports the development and implementation of strategic research directions.
m.rajasekharan@cgiar.org
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Ramirez, Ricardo
University
of Guelph
Ricardo is a full-time independent consultant and
adjunct professor at the School of Environmental Design
and Rural Development of the University of Guelph,
Ontario, Canada. He is involved in participatory action-research,
evaluation and communication for development, both
domestically (rural Ontario organizations, Aboriginal
communities in the far north) and internationally.
He contributed to the IAASTD Synthesis Report (Information
and communication technology and traditional and local
knowledge). His recent book (with Wendy Quarry), Communication
for another development: Listening before telling
(Zed Books, 2009), emphasizes the preconditions for
participatory approaches to take root.
rramirez@uoguelph.ca
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Sie, Moussa
WARDA
Moussa is Africa Rice Breeding Task Force coordinator
at the Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice), responsible
for the scientific and administrative leadership for
the task force, to improve the well-being of rice
producers and consumers in Africa.
m.sie@cgiar.org
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Srinath,
Krishna
Indian
Council of Agricultural Research
Krishna is a senior level scientist in the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, presently heading the Directorate of Research on Women in Agriculture, the only institute with that particular mandate. She is a specialist in extension education, having more than 30 years experience in field-level extension and action-research, mainly devoted to research on women in fisheries. Her action-research models on women's empowerment through extension education, gender-mainstreaming in aquaculture, and community-based coastal zone management are well known.
krisri08@yahoo.com;
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Turin,
Cecilia
Universidad
Agraria de la Molina -
University of Missouri
Cecilia
is visiting professor at Universidad Nacional Agraria
La Molina, Lima-Peru. She is animal scientist and PhD
candidate in Rural Sociology at the University of Missouri.
She is currently working in her doctoral research about
rangeland governance with pastoral and agropastoral
societies of the Peruvian Andes.
ceciturin@yahoo.com
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Weeratunge,
Nireka
WorldFish
Center
Nireka
is senior scientist (Gender and Social Development)
at the WorldFish Center, responsible for mainstreaming
gender analysis and promoting gender-equitable policy
outcomes in the fisheries sector. Her research focus
is on livelihoods, poverty, well-being, migration, networks
and identities in small-scale fishing and aquaculture
communities in Asia and the Pacific.
n.weeratunge@cgiar.org
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Zuñiga, Nohemi
INIA
Nohemi
works as a researcher in potato breeding for high land.
She is an agronomist with a PhD in Genetics. She graduated
from Montecillo School in Texcoco, Mexico. She is currently
working in potato breeding with the project [Network
of Research and Development: towards the efficient dissemination
of mechanisms to impact poor resource farmers utilizing
new potatoes varieties in the Andean Region].
zunigaluz@yahoo.com
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Video
Conference Participants
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Njuki, Jemimah
ILRI
Jemimah works for the International livestock Research
Institute as a social scientist. Main responsibilities
in ILRI are to develop a research area of work around
gender and livestock; support gender integration within
the institute and develop methods for participatory
monitoring and evaluation of livestock interventions.
Main areas of specialization are on participatory approaches,
monitoring and evaluation and gender. Has previously
worked at the International Centre for tropical Agriculture
(CIAT) and CAB International. Has a PhD in Development
Studies and a Bachelors in Dairy, Food Science and Technology.
j.njuki@cgiar.org
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Kamtam, Padmaja
ICRISAT
Padmaja is currently working as a Senior Scientific Officer in the Global Theme on Institutions, Markets, Policy and Impacts of ICRISAT. She is presently registered for her PhD at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-B), India. Her proposed thesis is entitled, "Evolution and returns to social networks: focus on women, risks and technological innovations in the drylands."
r.padmaja@cgiar.org;
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Gomez, Miguel
RUTA
– Regional Technical Assistant Unit (Unidad Regional
de Asistencia Tecnica de Centroamérica)
Miguel
is currently the Director of RUTA. He has a Master in
Public Administration with emphasis in International
Development, John F. Kennedy School of Government at
Harvard University and postgraduate studies in Business
Administration at McGill University, Montreal. He works
supporting networks of organizations regarding formulation
of policies that affect the agri-business sector.
mrgomez@ruta.org
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