10. Reduced inequalities

Forum on Realising Gender Equality and Women’s Rights
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Major shifts in the field of international development over the past 15 years have posed both challenges and opportunities for the advancement of gender equality and women’s rights. This annual forum is designed to stimulate critical reflection on the state of gender knowledge. It focuses on how dominant trends in international development enable or constrain the […]

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Empowerment of Women and Girls: a Conceptual Model
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KIT developed a conceptual model on the empowerment of women and girls in close partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The model was presented in a White Paper: Conceptual model of women and girls’ empowerment. KIT conducted in-depth background research that formed the basis for the Foundation’s Method’s Note for measuring women and girl’s empowerment. […]

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Gender, Rights and Development Forum
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This forum was called in order to explore the key themes of the Dutch development agenda from a gender and rights perspective. Areas in which policy leaders, academics and development organisations could collaborate were also examined. Five key themes Gender specialists, advocates and researchers including Josephine Ahikire (CBR Uganda), Andre Cornwall (University of Sussex) joined […]

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Understanding Gender in CIMMYT Maize Research
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This study examined the existing knowledge and experience of CGIAR Research Programme (CRP) MAIZE on the integration of gender concerns in maize research. Led by CIMMYT, CRP MAIZE focuses on increasing maize production for the 900 million poor consumers for whom maize is a staple food in Africa, South Asia and Latin America. To mark […]

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Gender Analysis of The Iraq-Public Sector Modernisation (I-PSM)
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The Iraq-Public Sector Modernization programme (I-PSM), a multi-agency UN joint programme, supports the Government of Iraq and regional Government of Kurdistan to modernize the public sector and build effective, efficient, and responsive public administrations. KIT provided support and gender analysis to help I-PSM achieve its goals. The I-PSM worked to develop an effective, efficient, and […]

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CIMMYT Gender Capacity Strengthening Programme
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This programme aimed to shape the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center – or CIMMYT – into a gender-responsive research and learning institution. It equipped staff with skills to conduct gender-responsive research to improve agricultural productivity, food security, and research-for-development outcomes for women and men farmers. 250 staff trained KIT developed a six-module training programme […]

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BRAC Gender Training Review
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The review covered 10 years of BRAC gender training that covered some 25,000 staff in order to recommend changes in its training programme as part of BRAC’s new programme strategy (2016-2020). Outline of the review KIT undertook a review of BRAC’s gender training that increased the organization’s Understanding of how BRAC’s gender training is positioned […]

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Female Faculty and Leadership – Affirmative Action and Gender Equality in Ethiopia
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An assessment of the position of female faculty and affirmative action policies in Ethiopian universities was carried out for the Education Strategy Centre in Addis Ababa. Building on that assessment, a leadership programme specifically aimed at female faculty was designed and piloted. Assessing female faculty and affirmative action The first component of this project was […]

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Gender Resource Facility
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The Gender Resource Facility (GRF) supported the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its embassies in integrating gender equality into policy development and programme implementation. GRF supports women’s rights & gender equality The GRF was established in mid-2014 and was operated by a consortium of KIT Royal Tropical Institute and Femconsult. It was formed at […]

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Mobilising for Women’s Rights: the Role of Resources
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This research undertaken in Ghana and Bangladesh explored the link between aid reform as a result of the Paris Declaration and its impact on women’s rights organisations in aid-dependent countries. The Rights and Resources conference was organised to share findings and think strategically on future interventions. The research done This research was undertaken by KIT in collaboration with […]

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Creating a Gender Strategy in Agricultural Training
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KIT is working with multiple partners to support Holeta Agricultural College in Ethiopia. The project delivers training in the field of commercial agriculture with the development of a gender strategy as an integral part. Supporting with expertise We have been working with Holeta’s stakeholders to provide gender and agricultural training, creating a case example that will be […]

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Gender & Rights with UNICEF in West and Central Africa
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KIT Gender was asked by UNICEF to lend its specific expertise on linking gender and rights in the development of its global policy on gender and rights. The project was innovative in that the focus was on gender and child rights and included not only building individual staff capacities, but also supporting organisational change, building accountability and […]

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