gwg -- Gender Working Group
About gwg	English (USA)
Welcome to the Gender Working Group The Gender Working Group is now established through the PRGA and each of you receiving this note has already been ‘officially registered’. This means that you will soon receive your ‘user name’ and ‘password’ from Mario Jorge Quinceno who is the site administrator for the PRGA site. If you are already a member of one of the other groups—PNRM or PPB—you probably already know how to work the web page. If you are new to the PRGA website, read through the Help Desk Q & A (at the top left of the page) to learn more about how the site works. As a registered member, you can submit news articles, documents (recommended or your own), and website links. You will also have access to the meeting rooms, to set up a space for a group to use to discuss a specific topic. More members: I will be sending a short message to the whole PPB and NRM lists inviting membership. Please, if you have colleagues who would like to join, have them send (me/Mario) a message requesting to register. Gender materials on the PRGA site: o Strategy statement o One report o Three working documents o 23 recommended resources o 29 recommended websites Inquiry regarding the Gender Working Group Thank you all for your replies. Several points stand out: • There was strong support for combining deepening of gender analysis skills with organizational change to support gender research. • Need for a clearer understanding of concepts and practice using gender analysis among a broader group of researchers. Respondents emphasized o the need to get beyond the diagnostic phase into planning and testing and for supporting researchers who are new to gender analysis by coaching and other means. o that gender analysis should be seen in the context as part of social, cultural, and economic analysis of the whole farming system o the focus should be on working with IARCS as setting the example and on NARS. Impact Assessment and Gender Nina Lilja (PRGA Impact Assessment Specialist) and Mauricio Bellon and John Dixon from CIMMYT are putting together a workshop on IA at CIMMYT, October 19 – 21. See the call for papers on the PRGA website. I have been working with Nina to identify resource persons for two topics: ‘empowerment’ and ‘gender: beyond headcounting’. The latter provides an opportunity to reinforce a deeper understanding of gender analysis. I have been looking at a number of papers dealing with empowerment. There are a number of papers that focus specifically on women’s empowerment, what is it?, how do you measure it. There are also a few organizations that are looking at empowerment more broadly, focusing on capacity building of communities and intermediaries (scientists, researchers, NGO staff, etc.) To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the gwg Archives. (The current archive is only available to the list members.)
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