Theme: Challenges and opportunities in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls

This session will highlight the role of gender-responsive agricultural policies in closing the gender gaps in agriculture, generating gains in innovation-driven development, increasing food security, and fostering economic growth. Discussions will highlight how gender-responsive policies can have an enabling effect in fostering more inclusive agriculture and food systems.
The discussions will also illuminate some of the emerging trends in agricultural policies, and the policy options for implementing an equitable food system.

Objectives and Key questions

• What are some of the challenges and priority policy areas for fostering gender-equitable and inclusive food systems transformation in Nigeria’s fish value chain?
• How can we achieve well-designed policies to close the gender gap in agricultural innovation systems?
• What are some of the models and successful policy processes that we can scale up?
• What are the approaches for designing policies to drive inclusive and equitable agricultural research and development on the continent?
• What are the opportunities for inter-sectoral collaborations to move the needle toward equitable policies?
• How can multistakeholder processes influence?
• What are the priority issues for action to drive equitable agricultural research and development on the continent?

Welcome and opening remarks

Dr. Susan Kaari- Director, AWARD

Keynote Address

Dr. Nicoline de Haan- Director, CGIAR GENDER Impact Platform

Panelists

Dr. Fadekemi Toyosi Igejongbo- Lecturer and Researcher, Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA)

Dr. Éveline Marie Fulbert Windinmi Compaoré- Social Scientist, Sociology and Social Policy, Environment and Agricultural Research Institute (INERA)

Dr. Eileen Nchanji- Gender Specialist, Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT

Dr. Esther Njuguna- Senior Social Scientist, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

Moderator

Dr. Michèle Mbo’o-Tchouawou- Deputy Director, Programs, AWARD