Food systems in developing countries are dominated by women with limited resources—information (e.g., on markets, finances), agricultural innovations (new plant cultivars, animal breeds, farm machinery and agricultural methods).

Organized by AWARD and CGIAR GENDER Impact Platform, this event will discuss the need for gender-responsive agricultural innovations for rural women, showcasing promising examples, and how to support women’s use of such innovations.

The event will further deliberate on information and communication technology (ICT) in agricultural extension narrowing down on the promotion of productivity-enhancing agricultural technologies and practices and impacts on equity outcomes (e.g. women’s empowerment and decision making within households).

Speakers
Nicoline de Haan – Director, CGIAR GENDER Impact Platform: Research, Evidence & Gaps
Susan Kaaria – Director of the African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD)
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Panelists
Esther Njuguna – Senior Social Scientist, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)
Eileen Nchanji – Gender Specialist, Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT (ABC)
Gaudiose Mujawamariya – Country Representative and Gender Focal Point, AfricaRice

Part A: Scene Setting
Welcome and Introduction to session

Part B: Keynote
Ms. Veronica Nduva – Principal Secretary (PS), State Department for Gender and Affirmative Action Ministry of Public Service, Kenya (TBC)

Part C: Opening Statements – Current state of affairs; Where do we go from here?
Dr. Nicoline de Haan, Director, CGIAR GENDER Impact Platform: Research, Evidence & Gaps

Dr. Susan Kaaria, Director of the African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD)

Part D: Panel discussion – case studies on agricultural innovations for women (30 minutes)

Describe intervention/ why successes/ unexpected results/ how to bring to scale?
Dr. Esther Njuguna (ILRI) – Improved forages as a pathway for women empowerment in Western Kenya and Ethiopia.
Dr. Eileen Nchanji (Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT) – Women-friendly technologies – a case of bean threshers in Tanzania
Dr. Gaudiose Mujawamariya (AfricaRice) – When the technology is designed with and for women: Impact of rice parboiling technology in West and Eastern Africa
GROOTS Kenya Representative

Part E: Questions and Answer session

Part F: Wrap up and Conclusion
Concluding remarks: Director, CGIAR GENDER Platform Nicoline de Haan (5 minutes)

Organised by:
CGIAR GENDER Impact Platform
African Women in Agricultural Research for Development (AWARD)