Results

• Forty technical experts were trained on gender issues for water productivity. 
• Gender disaggregated farmer surveys have been distributed for local water productivity assessment.
• A draft methodology has been piloted in Morocco on an approach for social inclusion of farmers in a process of setting sustainable limits around an aquifer. This process engaged 100 farmers and was organized in three farmers associations in cooperation with the basin agency and agriculture directorate.
• A set of standard guidelines on conducting a gender-water-agriculture analysis was developed for use by the gender experts.
• Two local gender-water-agriculture assessments have been implemented in Al Masharieh, Jordan, and Berrechid, Morocco.

Capacity development

• The gender modules have been introduced in the WA and WP regional technical trainings for trainers.
• Online training on SDGs with a focus on social/economic dimensions have been developed. A webinar series has been initiated, with a webinar on monitoring in project cycles.
• In an effort to mainstream transformative gender interventions and to raise the regional gender capacities into the context of SIDA project, RNE initiated a series of theoretical and practical training sessions under the title of “Why Gender Matters in Our Work” over the course of April-May 2020. Attended by around 80 participants of programme staff, SIDA project staff, gender focal point, and cooperating partners in the region, the sessions focused on introducing the basic gender concepts, the guiding International and corporate frameworks for gender equality, and why gender considerations matter in agriculture. Participants were engaged in follow-up practical sessions on how to integrate gender in the project cycle starting from conducting a gender analysis, to the formulation and implementation of gender sensitive, gender-responsive, and gender-transformative activities, to integrating gender into the projects M&E frameworks.