This project - initially entitled "Institutionalizing SA/GA for Poverty Alleviation in Agricultural Research and Development in the Eastern Himalayan Region"- builds on an earlier IDRC-supported project, "Building Capacity in Social/Gender Analysis in the Eastern Himalayas", led by both PRGA and WOCAN directors from 2003 -2005. This 18 month project addressed a gap in the expertise within the eastern Himalayan region to integrate and practically apply social/gender analysis in natural resource management (NRM) related projects by providing training on gender and social analysis methods and approaches in order to understand differential impacts of resource degradation and NRM practices on different segments of the population, with an aim towards developing transformative and innovative solutions.