{"id":13930,"date":"2026-06-20T12:31:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iita.org\/news-item\/iita-gender-network-plans-better-strategies-to-promote-gender-research-in-one-cgiar\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T21:34:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T21:34:48","slug":"iita-gender-network-plans-better-strategies-to-promote-gender-research-in-one-cgiar","status":"publish","type":"news-item","link":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/news-item\/iita-gender-network-plans-better-strategies-to-promote-gender-research-in-one-cgiar\/","title":{"rendered":"IITA Gender Network plans better strategies to promote gender research in One CGIAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Le <a href=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/\">IITA<\/a> Gender Science Network (GSN) is a team that comprises social and biophysical scientists, communication staff, and project managers. The Network\u2019s goal is to be a vibrant community of practice for gender advocacy and enhancing gender research, communication, and impact. It also envisions having an innovative and diverse network of scientists in IITA to strengthen the quality and visibility of gender research through dialogue, cooperation, and influencing the delivery agenda of the Institute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><figure id=\"attachment_23484\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23484\" style=\"width: 820px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23484\" src=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Gender-Network.jpg\" alt=\"IITA Gender Network plans better strategies to promote gender research in One CGIAR\" width=\"820\" height=\"411\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23484\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">IITA Gender Specialist Dr Steven Cole sharing the purpose and agenda of the meeting with the team.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The GSN holds quarterly meetings to monitor its activities, measure progress, identify challenges, and discuss the way forward. On 29 July, the Network held its second quarterly meeting for the year to highlight the Network\u2019s gender research activities of the second quarter and discuss new activities and progress made. There was also discussion around the CGIAR GENDER Platform and One CGIAR \u2018Gender\u2019 Initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/iita-staff\/cole-steven\/\">Steven Cole<\/a>, IITA Senior Scientist and Gender Specialist and Coordinator of GSN, welcomed all, including new members joining the team from units and projects in IITA. He also shared the purpose and agenda of the meeting, after which Olamide Olaosebikan, Research Associate at IITA, provided a recap of the quarter one meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Long-standing and new members were allowed to share their gender-related activities in the second quarter. Among the numerous activities were those of <a href=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/iita-staff\/bhattacharjee-ranjana\/\">Ranjana Bhattacharjee<\/a>, Molecular Geneticist at IITA Ibadan and Cheick Aboubacar Diarra, Technical Expert, ENABLE Youth-IITA Madagascar. Bhattacharjee spoke about the IBRD IDA World Bank project where they work with a \u201cmodel farm\u201d in schools to grow nutritious food crops focused on changing students\u2019 food baskets. She spoke about the double burden of malnutrition that must be tackled in schools and\u00a0 the students\u2019 households. \u201cGender is considered as we compare food baskets of girls and boys, and the reasons they are different,\u201d she said. Diarra talked about the challenge nursing mothers face by not being invited to participate in the ENABLE Youth program, hence, they are working on daycare facilities to resolve this issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Discussing the way forward, the team agreed that webinars be organized to promote knowledge on gender research and its importance. Hence, the first set of webinars would be presented in IITA with occasional promotion to One <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cgiar.org\/\">CGIAR<\/a>. Other ideas included organizing a roundtable discussion for more interaction and contribution of members. There is also the need to carry out a small survey when planning projects to understand the preferences and needs of women and men for better research results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Giving an update on the CGIAR GENDER Platform and One CGIAR \u2018\u2018HER+\u2019 Initiative, Cole mentioned that there would be a <a href=\"https:\/\/event.wur.nl\/cultivating-equality2021\">Cultivating Equality Conference<\/a> in October organized by the GENDER Platform and Wageningen University and Research. Also, IITA was involved in developing three Innovative Methods Grant proposals of the GENDER Platform, and one that IITA led was selected. \u201cFor the HER+ Initiative, which I am part of the Initiative Design Team,\u201d a pre-concept proposal has been submitted and we are working on the full proposal,\u201d Cole said.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The IITA Gender Science Network (GSN) is a team that comprises social and biophysical scientists, communication staff, and project managers.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":13931,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"tags":[663],"science-area":[],"program":[],"location":[],"news-type":[],"hub":[61],"crop":[],"impact-areas":[],"item-year":[199],"class_list":["post-13930","news-item","type-news-item","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-gendergender-research-in-one-cgiariita-news-no-2605","hub-western-africa","item-year-199"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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