CGIAR Gender Accelerator
Program/accelerator:

Gender Equality and Social Inclusion

We will lead strategic, innovative research to advance gender equality, youth opportunities, and social inclusion within CGIAR’s Food, Land, and Water Systems Portfolio, aligning efforts to move CGIAR and our partners toward achieving gender equality and social inclusion.

We play a vital role in building an enabling external environment for gender equality and social inclusion research within food, land, and water systems. Our efforts will accelerate the growth and impact of gender equality and social inclusion, and will continue influencing the global discussion on gender equality and youth engagement.

 

Our work aims to help with

  • Generating 12 high-level outputs
  • Harnessing high-level support and strategic partnerships
  • Unlocking US$16 million for research and programs

Where we will work in

Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Small Island Nations in the Pacific

Challenges we’ll address

  • Systemic, complex and deeply entrenched social inequalities and gender disparities in food, land, and water systems
  • $10 trillion lost per year because of lack of investments on basic skills for women and in gender equality
  • Widening income gap between men and women exarcerbated by the climate crisis, as households run by women lose US$53 billion per year more than men
  • A pressing need for multi-actor, multi-sectoral, and evolutionary solutions to promote human right to gender equality and social inclusion

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Areas of Work

  • Accelerating Solutions for Impact
    Through research with our partners, we will find solutions that lead to gender equality, and opportunities for youth and social inclusion in food-land-water systems. We will co-develop and inclusively scale integrated solutions that challenge the multiple dimensions of inequality, overcoming inclusion challenges specific to climate change adaptation and mitigation; agricultural technology design and use; breeding and genetic innovations; food-land-water value chains and market systems; natural resources management, such as of water, biodiversity and landscapes; and livestock, fisheries and aquaculture.
  • Accelerating Change 
    We will focus on creating conducive conditions for rigorous, solution-oriented gender equality and social inclusion research by engaging with gender researchers, CGIAR, and food-land-water actors, and amplifying the influence and use of this research among relevant end users to contribute to wide-scale impact on gender equality, social inclusion and meaningful opportunities for the youth. Our work will be founded on CGIAR’s gender and youth work of past decades: the demand created, and the strong partnerships formed to collectively deliver on gender equality and social inclusion goals.

Gender Equality & Social Inclusion

We will realize transformational change and reimagine adaptation and mitigation in food-land-water systems by delivering gender-responsive adaptation and mitigation solutions that address root causes of inequality, facilitating investment in socially inclusive approaches to climate change mitigation and adaptation, and standardizing gender equality and social inclusion-responsive data collection on climate change impacts across CGIAR and our partners.

Our Approach

Interlinked support across CGIAR’s portfolio
We will work closely with the Breeding for Tomorrow, Climate Action, Diets and Nutrition, Food Frontiers and Security, Multifunctional Landscapes, Policy Innovations, Scaling for Impact, and Sustainable Animal and Aquatic Foods programs.

Working to share our capacity with

  • Gender researchers
  • CGIAR senior leaders
  • Biophysical and social science collaborators

Built on CGIAR’s proven expertise

  • Significant experience on gender and inclusion research on food-land-water systems, across 14 research Centers worldwide
  • 100+ scientists whose research focuses on the nexus of gender equality and social inclusion and food-land-water systems — a specialization that remains scarce in the FLWS ecosystem
  • Our role as convenor of the largest global gender network in food-land-water systems researchers
  • Our global network and deep relationships with partners and stakeholders across the world.

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