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WELCOME to PNRM, the listserv on Participatory Research for Natural Resource Management, serving a working group on gender-sensitive, participatory approaches for improving natural-resource management. The PNRM Working Group (PNRM-wg) was inaugurated in Chatham, England in September 1999 at a workshop co-hosted by the CGIAR Systemwide Program on Participatory Research and Gender Analysis (PRGA Program) and the Natural Resources Institute. The Chatham meeting brought together an array of researchers working on a diversity of natural-resource management challenges. To build on this, while being more inclusive, membership in the PNRM-wg is unrestricted.
This listserv is an important communication channel for the PNRM-wg and is supported by the PRGA Program (http://www.prgaprogram.org), a Systemwide initiative of the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (http://www.cgiar.org). The PRGA Program was formed in 1996 to improve the practice of gender-sensitive participatory research approaches in the CGIAR and its partners in order to contribute more effectively to poverty alleviation, food security and to safeguarding the environment.
The PRGA Program is particularly interested in reaching rural women, who form a growing proportion of the very poor, a trend referred to as the "feminization of poverty." Women are especially vulnerable to the downward spiral of poverty because of their limited entitlements to natural resources and other assets, and the often degraded condition of these.
Gender analysis goes to the very heart of participatory research by addressing the key issue of who should participate, and enabling assessments of how women and other users are affected by changes in technology, institutional arrangements, management practices and information. The relevance of participatory research to NRM stems from the limited scope for conducting controlled experimentation at the landscape scale. Continuous process monitoring and assessment against social, environmental and economic indicators is an alternative that complements controlled experimentation. Participatory research contributes to the building of stakeholder platforms, or learning communities, for engaging in the linked processes of adaptive management, monitoring and assessment.
A main strategy of the PRGA Program has been to draw together a body of scientifically credible evidence about the state-of-the-art in gender-sensitive participatory research approaches and their outcomes, enabling decision-makers and development workers, including researchers, to decide for themselves about the merits of these approaches. Another key strategy is to support and add value to the experience of practitioners who are integrating gender analysis methods and participatory approaches with NRM and plant breeding research. The PRGA Program expects that improving the practice of gender-sensitive participatory research among CGIAR scientists and their partners will lead to greater impact on poverty and the environment.
INFORMATION FOR NEW PARTICIPANTS:
In order that we may better know you as a new participant, please send the following information to the facilitator, pnrm-owner@lists.cgiar.org:
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