Commitments for bilateral development agencies, foundations, multilaterals and non-governmental organizations
In development cooperation, these types of entities are often partners to national governments and local development actors.
The below commitments offer an indication of possible thematic areas under which your entity may wish to make one or several commitments. It is possible to select multiple commitments across different areas or within the same area. Upon joining CGE, entities will be asked to briefly articulate the specific action(s) they intend to take for each commitment.
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- [O1] Using the Development Assistance Committee gender equality policy marker, increase the number and/or value of projects scored 1 or 2*
- [O2] Increase the number and/or value of projects in agrifood systems which are gender transformative at design
- [O3] Increase the quality of programming for gender equality and women’s empowerment in agrifood systems along the Reach, Benefit, Empower, Transform framework
- [O4] Increase linkages and synergies between financial commitments on climate change, resilience and gender equality and women’s empowerment
- [O5] Increase financial and/or technical support for the dissemination and uptake of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) Voluntary Guidelines on Gender Equality and Women’s and Girls’ Empowerment in the Context of Food Security and Nutrition
- [O6] Increase, renew and/or realign partnerships between international development actors to pursue policies and investments promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment in agrifood systems
- [O7] Lead, convene or finance activities, events or initiatives in support of the International Year of the Woman Farmer (2026)
* Significant (marked 1) means that gender equality is an important and deliberate objective, but not the principal reason for undertaking the project/programme, often explained as gender equality being mainstreamed in the project/programme; Principal (marked 2) means that gender equality is the main objective of the project/programme and is fundamental in its design and expected results. The project/programme would not have been undertaken without this objective.
- [A1.1] Projects and/or programmes focused on women entrepreneurs or women-led and gender-smart businesses in agrifood systems
- [A1.2] Projects and/or programmes aimed at increasing women researchers’ and scientists’ participation in agricultural sciences and related subjects (animal and plant health, forestry, climate, etc.)
- [A1.3] Projects and/or programmes aimed at working with women-led community organizations, including producer organizations and cooperatives, in agrifood systems to increase women’s participation and leadership
- [A1.4] Projects and/or programmes supporting women’s active participation in policymaking processes for agrifood systems
- [A2.1] Projects and/or programmes aimed at increasing the economic inclusion of women in well-remunerated jobs and high-value parts of AFS value chains
- [A2.2] Projects and/or programmes focused on addressing the care burden faced by women working in AFS, including childcare provision and work on social norms around distribution of care work
- [A2.3] Projects and/or programmes aimed at changing discriminatory social norms around the value of women’s paid work in AFS
- [A3.1] Projects and/or programmes aimed at increasing women’s secure tenure of agricultural land
- [A3.2] Projects and/or programmes which increase women’s access to and property rights over other critical agrifood system inputs (water, livestock, technology)
- [A3.3] Projects and/or programmes which increase women in agrifood systems' access to financial services
- [A3.4] Projects and/or programmes which include gender-responsive and adapted extension and information services
- [A3.5] Projects and/or programmes which seek to close the digital divide for women in agrifood systems
- [A3.6] Projects and/or programmes which foster women’s access to markets
- [A3.7] Projects and/or programmes which increase the creation or uptake of technology for women, including for productive and reproductive activities
- [A4.1] Projects and/or programmes which seek to engage with and change discriminatory social norms for transformative impact or combine efforts to close wage/productivity gaps with interventions on social norms
- [A4.2] Projects and/or programmes which seek to increase women’s decision-making authority through engaging with groups, leaders, etc.
- [A4.3] Financing, projects and/or programmes which seek to increase women’s knowledge of and access to AFS practices which increase resilience to climatic and other shocks
- [A4.4] Financing, projects and/or programmes which seek to increase gender-responsive social protection in AFS
- [A4.5] Gender-responsive policies and/or programmes that aim to improve nutrition and food security outcomes for women and girls
- [A5.1] Financial support, new projects and/or greater commitment to the collection of sex- and age-disaggregated data, gender data and individual-level data in agrifood systems
- [A5.2] Financial support and/or greater commitment to gender-responsive impact evaluations or randomized control trials of projects and programmes
- [A5.3] Financial support for and/or partnership with the academia, think tanks, researchers or institutions based in the Global South to undertake cutting edge research on gender equality and women’s empowerment in agrifood systems
