Fostering collaboration in cross-CGIAR research projects and platforms: lessons from the GENNOVATE initiative. GENNOVATE resources for scientists and research teams

“GENNOVATE: Enabling gender equality in agricultural and environmental innovation” is a collaborative study that represents an unprecedented initiative in the CGIAR in its scale and comprehensiveness for examining gender norms, agency, and capacities for innovations. A qualitative study, it brings to life the voices, challenges, and aspirations of local people differentiated by gender, socioeconomic class, and generation under diverse cultures, religions, ecological circumstances, and agricultural systems. The research design was developed collaboratively, and Principal Investigators (PIs) from nearly all CGIAR Research Programs (CRPs) contributed substantively to the study. GENNOVATE was initiated from the bottom up in 2013 among CGIAR and associated gender researchers, and was made possible through funding support from CGIAR Trust Fund Donors, the CRPs, the CGIAR Gender and Agricultural Research Network, the World Bank, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the governments of Germany and Mexico. One unique aspect of GENNOVATE is its ability to catalyze collaboration: It brought together a multidisciplinary team of researchers across the CRPs and enabled them to carry out a study that covers the many regions where the CGIAR is active. GENNOVATE researchers worked with 137 agricultural communities from 26 countries across the Global South. In this way, the initiative moved beyond the small, isolated studies which have characterized much gender case research towards real time comparisons across many qualitative cases. This has allowed for new patterns to emerge while maintaining emphasis on contextual specificity. The success of the study has rested considerably in its driving principles of systematic collaboration and learning.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Elias, M., Badstue, L.B., Farnworth, C.R., Prain, G., van der Burg, M., Petesch, P., Elmhirst, R., Bullock, R., Feldman, S., Jafry, T., Netsayi Mudege, Umantseva, A., Amare Tegbaru, Dina Najjar, Jummai Yila, Behailu, L.A., Kawarazuka, N., Kandiwa, V., Kantor, P., Luis, J., Lopez, D.E., Njuguna-Mungai, E., Rietveld, A.
Format:	Newsletter / Bulletin biblioteca
Language:	English
Published:	CIMMYT 2018
Subjects:	AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND BIOTECHNOLOGY, GENDER EQUALITY, AGRICULTURAL INNOVATION SYSTEMS, RESEARCH PROJECTS,
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/10883/19640
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