An exciting opportunity with the CGIAR GENDER Platform’s ‘Working Group on the Transformation of Gender Norms at Scale’(hosted by WorldFish).
1. Background
The CGIAR Generating Evidence and New Directions for Equitable Results (GENDER) Platform aims to catalyze research on gender in agriculture to achieve more equitable, sustainable, productive, and climate-resilient food systems. The GENDER Platform, hosted by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), encompasses all CGIAR Research Centers and engages a multitude of partners. GENDER Platform activities will be carried out within 3 modulesEvidence, Methods, and Alliancesworking together to develop and promote high-quality evidence, knowledge, methods, tools and alliances around gender that foster transformational change for inclusive and equitable food systems within planetary boundaries.
The Methods Module of the GENDER Platform in which this work is situated aims to co-create, consolidate, and share cutting-edge methods and tools to strengthen and facilitate high-quality gender research across key and emerging CGIAR research areas. The activity described in this ToR relates specifically to the Methods Module’s aim to synthesize and curate a portfolio of gender methods and tools related to key areas of gender research.
The Methods Module activities are carried out through a range of Working Groups. The Working Groups will synthesize the methods and tools used for gender research in their respective area and provide guidance for integration in policy or programing. This is intended to build upon the wealth of resources across the CGIAR and its partners. By critically synthesizing, curating, and sharing available methods and tools across these priority research areas, the Methods module will elevate the methods and tools that meet the highest quality standards and make these tools and methods easy for gender researchers to access and apply in their own research. This work will improve the quality of gender research within One CGIAR and partner organizations and will lead to more gender-equitable food system interventions. The syntheses produced by the working groups will be published as a working paper and shared and promoted on the GENDER Platform Resource Hub. The tools and methods collected for each synthesis will be tagged and shared on the Resource Hub to increase the visibility and access to these tools.
This Term of References (ToR) relates specifically to the Working Group entitled the ‘Transformation of Gender Norms at Scale’ also known as the Gender Transformative Approaches (GTA) Working Group. This diverse working group involves multiple CGIAR centres and programs and is hosted by WorldFish.
2. Activities
The successful consultant or partner team will in close collaboration with the GTA Working Group leader and members be responsible for the gathering, analysis, compilation and systematization of GTA resources (tools, methods, and guidance) relevant to the transformation of gender norms at scale as a foundation for gender equality. These will be consolidated into two high quality synthesis outputs (see Deliverables below): a Working Paper; and a Brief. These outputs will be co-authored with the Working Group
The precise scope of the work will be determined by the GTA working group. The topics will likely include:
Thematically, the scope will relate to food systems and the associated priority impact areas and initiatives of One CGIAR.
Within the above scope, the outputs will include consideration of quality or quantity of the available methods and tools, and whether they raise particular ethical issues. The outputs may additionally consider the extent to which the methods and tools have engaged an intersectional lens (including identities such as age, wealth, ethnicity and more). Moreover, they may also highlight how the methods and tools engage with the digital revolution in development and the introduction of new information and communication technologies (ICT).
The working paper will include an annotated appendix presenting the final set of tools and methods. These tools will be tagged according to the purpose of the tool (e.g., research, implementation guidance, conceptual framework, etc.), scale of application, type (quantitative, qualitative, mixed-method, transdisciplinary), and intended audience, and other fields (to be determined).
The successful consultant or partner team will gather the resources via online search of peer-reviewed and grey literature as well as discussions with working group members, and email requests, and key informant interviews with actors working in