Integrating gender into small-scale irrigation

Small-Scale Irrigation (SSI) interventions, like other development interventions, need to take into account men’s and women’s context-specific roles in agriculture and their related gender-based preferences and challenges. Understanding gender differences related to SSI technologies can help us impr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lefore, Nicole, Bryan, Elizabeth, Ringler, Claudia, Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., Theis, Sophie
Format: Brief
Language:Inglés
Published: CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems 2017
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/95864
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Summary:Small-Scale Irrigation (SSI) interventions, like other development interventions, need to take into account men’s and women’s context-specific roles in agriculture and their related gender-based preferences and challenges. Understanding gender differences related to SSI technologies can help us improve targeting and better anticipate and monitor the impact of technologies on different people. Gender analysis is relevant to any SSI program, whether it seeks to avoid harm to women, to serve both men and women, or to advance women’s empowerment.