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Book (stand-alone)Ensuring that rural advisory services are responsive to women: good practices from FAO experiences in Europe and Central Asia 2024
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No results found.This report builds upon FAO’s work promoting gender mainstreaming in extension and advisory services, cataloguing challenges and suggesting strategies for increasing the gender responsiveness of rural advisory services globally. The purpose of this review is to apply FAO’s accumulated knowledge about gender equality in the context of rural advisory services to assess the situation in the Europe and Central Asia region. The report provides a snapshot of the extent to which gender considerations are currently integrated into rural advisory services in the region and highlights good practices that are in line with FAO’s gender equality strategies. The report concludes with recommendations for FAO, partner organizations and stakeholders in the fields of agricultural extension and rural advisory services, on how to further improve such services to extend their reach to rural women and men who have previously had limited or no access. This process requires moving away from gender‑neutral service provision, which often results in the exclusion of women, towards transformative extension and rural advisory services that challenge unequal gender relations and address underlying discriminatory norms and practices. -
Book (stand-alone)Good practices for promoting gender equality through rural advisory services
Case studies from Ethiopia, India and Peru
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No results found.This publication is the third one in a row, following the background paper 'Enhancing the potential of family farming for poverty reduction and food security through gender-sensitive rural advisory services' and the Gender and Rural Advisory Services Assessment Tool (GRAST). It includes three cases studies from three continents and the good practices for promoting gender equality through RAS of the studied organziations as well as a collection of recommendations drawn from the good practices. The objective is to support RAS providers to adopt and adapt these good practices so that they can design and deliver truly gender-responsive services. Improving rural women's access to RAS can close the gender gap in agriculture. However, to do this both RAS clients and providers need to overcome several challenges. While the challenges women face to access RAS have been widely documented, there is a dearth of information regarding the good practices for designing and delivering fully gender-responsive RAS. This paper fills this gap by presenting good practices as well as systematized recommendations following the five areas of analysis of the GRAST. The case studies confirm that to provide truly gender-equitable RAS, holistic approach and systemic change are needed: the entire RAS system, including policies and institutions, staff attitudes and capacities must change. The perspective of gender equality need to become integral guiding principle within the enabling policy and organizational environment and culture. -
Policy briefPromoting gender-sensitive farm business schools. A companion guide 2023
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No results found.The training toolkit ‘Promoting gender-sensitive farm business schools’ was designed to complement the Farm Business School (FBS) universal training package and assist FBS practitioners integrating the gender dimension in FBS approach. With a view to favour equal participation of women and men in farm business and ensure they both benefit from the opportunities it offers, it is important that FBS practitioners recognize the gender-based constraints existing in all phases of the farm business cycle from diagnosis to evaluation and learn how to address them in the FBS curricula and facilitation process. The guide is to be consulted and used in combination with the universal training package as it follows its structure and process spanning orientation note for policy makers, training handbook and exercise book. The first part of the guide raises awareness on the gender gap and the gender-based constraints related to farm business and the role of FBS in addressing them. Consequently, it identifies entry points for mainstreaming gender in the FBS capacity development process, from policy sensitization to training of farmers. It offers tools, ideas and resources for discussing and addressing gender-based constraints as relevant to the different phases of the farm business cycle from diagnosis to evaluation. An outline for a training session on gender mainstreaming in FBS is included followed by a table providing inputs on how to integrate the gender dimension in selected FBS training contents.
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