Integrating gender in research and institutions: lessons from the Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy Research, Capacity, and Influence

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April 19, 2024 - Elizabeth Bryan, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Hagar ElDidi, and Pamela Pali

Key Messages

  1. PRCI was successful at sensitizing researchers about the importance of integrating gender in research.
  2. Capacity development by the PRCI team on gender was found to be “useful” and “necessary” to integrate gender into research.
  3. Remaining challenges to integrate gender in research include limited availability of sex-disaggregated data, limited gender expertise, and limited resources for gender-focused research.
  4. Integrating gender in institutional practice is more challenging as it requires strong leadership and political will.
  5. Future efforts to integrate gender should include integrating gender at the proposal development stage, ensuring research teams include gender experts, identifying gender focal points within partner centers, and greater funding and longer timeframes to enable collection of sex-disaggregated data

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