Gender transformative approaches represent a move beyond “business as usual” gender integration in programming towards the creation of an enabling social environment and more equitable formal and informal institutions that expand life choices for women and men. At the heart of their work, WorldFish (in particular, through its Aquatic Agricultural Systems cross-cutting research program) and CARE USA (through its global Pathways to Empowerment agriculture program) strive to apply gender transformative approaches (GTA) in designing, implementing, and learning from agricultural development interventions. However, committing to GTA implementation approaches also requires a transformation of measurements and indicators of change, an area of research that remains relatively under-developed in the agriculture sector.
Authors: Emily Hillenbrand, Nidal Karim, Pranati Mohanraj and Diana Wu
Source: CARE USA for WorldFish and the CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems
This publication should be cited as: Hillenbrand E, Karim N, Mohanraj P and Wu D. 2015. Measuring gender transformative change: A review of literature and promising practices. CARE USA. Working Paper.
