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Gender Research Fellowship Programme Writeshop Report, 2-6 June 2014, Bangalore, India by Fernández, M.

“…They worked within larger project teams and received mentorship to integrate gender considerations in collaborative Bioversity and partners projects focusing on the sustainable management of forest genetic resources. …”
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Food & Business Global Challenges Programme GCP4 Midterm Workshop Report by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security, NWO-WOTRO Science for Global Development, Food & Business Knowledge Platform

“…The workshop brought together 55 participants drawn from the eight GCP4 project teams, CCAFS, NWO and F&BKP. The public dialogue held on the afternoon of June 13 was attended by an additional 34 participants representing the private sector, research, non-governmental organizations, government and international development partners in Ethiopia. …”
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Report on Ganges BDC Reflection Workshop by Douthwaite, Boru, Bayot, Ruvicyn S.

“…The first most important function of the Reflection Workshop is that it allows Ganges BDC project teams to share their individual project activities, findings, issues, opportunities and visions.This enables the BDC team as a whole to discuss, collectively, any adjustments that need to be made to better address the goal of the BDC, and to identify early results that should be built on, particularly for out and upscaling.…”
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Scaling up dissemination and adoption of agricultural technologies using innovation platforms - Lessons from Eastern and Central Africa by Kimenye, L.N., McEwan, M.

“…The information shows how the DONATA project teams in ECA have used the AIS theoretical concepts to establish and manage innovation platforms to disseminate and scale out OFSP and QPM technologies. …”
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Investigating upstream agriculture research for development dynamics for downstream impacts by Ewell, Hanna, McGuire, Erin, Valencia Leñero, Eva Marina, Bailey, Arwen

“…How can we educate ourselves to excel in interdisciplinary work and recognize biases within our project teams? What are the consequences of failing to address these systemic issues to our effectiveness? …”
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Integrating social and natural sciences in agricultural innovation systems by Valencia Leñero, Eva Marina, Sylvester, Janelle, Ewell, Hanna, Larson, Janelle

“…How can we educate ourselves to excel in interdisciplinary work and recognize biases within our project teams? What are the consequences of failing to address these systemic issues to our effectiveness? …”
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Obstacles to measuring and quantifying systems change by Ewell, Hanna, Valencia Leñero, Eva Marina, ThiThuGiang, Luu, Sylvester, Janelle

“…How can we educate ourselves to excel in interdisciplinary work and recognize biases within our project teams? What are the consequences of failing to address these systemic issues to our effectiveness? …”
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Outcome-based innovation and scaling, impact with systems framework by Bailey, Arwen, Valencia Leñero, Eva Marina, ThiThuGiang, Luu, McGuire, Erin

“…How can we educate ourselves to excel in interdisciplinary work and recognize biases within our project teams? What are the consequences of failing to address these systemic issues to our effectiveness? …”
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Considering social differentiation in innovation and scaling by McGuire, Erin, Kabirigi, Michel, Ewell, Hanna, Liani, Millicent

“…How can we educate ourselves to excel in interdisciplinary work and recognize biases within our project teams? What are the consequences of failing to address these systemic issues to our effectiveness? …”
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A systems approach for more effective and inclusive agricultural innovation for sustainable transformation: A call to action, reflection and five research commentaries by McGuire, Erin, Al-Zu’bi, Maha, Bailey, Arwen, Ewell, Hanna, Kabirigi, Michel, Valencia Leñero, Eva Marina, Larson, Janelle, Liani, Millicent, Sylvester, Janelle, ThiThuGiang, Luu

“…How can we educate ourselves to excel in interdisciplinary work and recognize biases within our project teams? What are the consequences of failing to address these systemic issues to our effectiveness? …”
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Checklist for Gender-Responsive Research Design and Interventions on Plant Health by International Potato Center

“…As respondents answer the questions, pop-up messages appear to give guidance on how project teams can make plant health research and interventions more gender inclusive. …”
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Capacity development for scaling conservation agriculture in smallholder farming systems in Latin America, South Asia, and Southern Africa: Exposing the hidden levels by Woltering, Lennart, Boa Alvarado, M., Stahl, J., Loon, Jelle J. van, Ortíz Hernández, E., Brown, B., Gathala, Mahesh Kumar, Thierfelder, Christian L.

“…Using a modified framework with clear examples of various types of capacity development activities, project leaders were able to identify and uncover activities that pertain to each of the four levels of capacity development. We argue that project teams must be aware, able, and empowered to invest in the development of capacities of local organizations and the system they operate in. …”
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Gender, livestock and livelihood indicators. Version 2 by Njuki, Jemimah, Poole, Elizabeth J., Johnson, Nancy L., Baltenweck, Isabelle, Pali, Pamela N., Lokman, Z., Mburu, S.

“…Currently, the indicators are designed for data collection at household level and for integration into household surveys. Project teams should ask for assistance in adapting these indicators for use in other types of surveys such as community surveys, focus group discussions, market agent surveys and key informant interviews. …”
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Gender, livestock and livelihood indicators by Njuki, Jemimah, Poole, Elizabeth J., Johnson, J., Baltenweck, Isabelle, Pali, Pamela N., Lokman, Z., Mburu, S.

“…Currently, the indicators are designed for data collection at household level and for integration into household surveys. Project teams should ask for assistance in adapting these indicators for use in other types of surveys such as community surveys, focus group discussions, market agent surveys and key informant interviews. …”
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Gender and inclusion in the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE): an end of program reflection and evaluation by Joshi, Deepa, Braaten, Y., Hakhu, Arunima, Pradhan, Rubina, Gallant, Bryce

“…Adopting a reflexive, self-analytical feminist approach to evaluation, this EoPRE facilitated eight project teams, diverse and with an uneven focus on gender, to connect the dots between the processes of knowing and doing gender research. …”
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Does climate information matter? A proposed monitoring and evaluation framework for participatory assessment of the impact of climate services for male and female farmers by Tall, Arame, Davis, Alicia, Agrawal, Sweta

“…This M&E framework will enable project teams to evaluate the relevance of climate services to support smallholder farmer decision-making under an uncertain climate and improve local management of climate related risks at the farm-level.…”
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Anticipating gender impacts in scaling innovations for agriculture: Insights from the literature by McGuire, Erin, Rietveld, Anne M., Crump, Amanda, Leeuwis, Cees

“…Our review finds six points of attention to reflect upon unique gender considerations when innovating and scaling innovation: i) Comprising research and project teams, ii) Designing agricultural innovations, iii) Communicating and extension of innovation, iv) Choosing scale models: entrepreneurship and business development, v) Reinventing and changing technology, and vi) Engaging with the political economy of innovation. …”
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Supporting a systems approach to scaling for all; insights from using the Scaling Scan tool by Woltering, Lennart, Valencia Leñero, Eva M., Boa, Maria, Van Loon, Jelle, Ubels, Jan, Leeuwis, Cees

“…OBJECTIVE: This study draws from almost six years of experience using and adapting the Scaling Scan tool to deepen the theoretical and empirical understanding of what a systems approach to scaling is and what challenges project teams and organizations face to embrace this. …”
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Cost analysis: methods, tools and gender-integration guidelines by CGIAR Gender Equality and Inclusion

“…Cost analyses are crucial for: • resource allocation: cost analyses support informed decision-making for efficient resource distribution, ensuring the highest return on investment (ROI) • project prioritization: by evaluating the costs and benefits of various projects, teams can prioritize those that deliver the most value • operational optimization: cost analyses help identify opportunities for improvement, enabling teams to streamline operations, reduce costs and enhance efficiency. …”
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Learning from Phase I: A Survey of Project Leaders and Staff by Sullivan, A., Álvarez, S.

“…However comments were also made about the time, money, and energy required to adequately supervise and monitor students to ensure their contributions to project teams and outputs.…”
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