Joint Programme on Gender Transformative Approaches
for Food Security and Nutrition

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News

20/10/2023

During the launch of the ‘Guidelines for measuring gender transformative change in the context of food security, nutrition and sustainable agriculture’, a dialogue panel between a representative of the Rome-based Agencies and one from the ONE CGIAR system focused on the opportunities and challenges of assessing normative constraints to gender equality in agrifood systems.

 

16/10/2023

How to address gender inequality in rural areas? A Learning Route in Brazil, organized by Procasur within the framework of the Joint Programme, seeks answers and solutions to this question. The Learning Route will take place from 16 to 22 October 2023 and will visit initiatives of women's groups and rural communities in the states of Rio Grande do Norte and Pernambuco in Brazil.

 

28/06/2023

WFP in the framework of the JP GTA focused one of its monthly 'Gender Equality Brown Bag' sessions in June 2023 on key data emerging from FAO’s recently published 'Status of Women in Agrifood Systems' report and on the potential of innovative approaches to trigger gender transformative change in agrifood systems.

 

01/06/2023

IFAD in the context of the JP GTA has partnered with Procasur to organize a Learning Route on gender transformative approaches in the district of Blantyre in Malawi from 29 May to 3 June 2023.

 

06/04/2023

Three UN agencies foster the empowerment of rural women by promoting their access to productive resources and capacity building for development and leadership.

23/03/2023

A community-led initiative to foster children's education enrolls 32 children in newly built nursery, with support from FAO through the Joint Programme on Gender Transformative Approaches for Food Security and Nutrition (JP GTA).

 

14/03/2023

'Raíz de la igualdad' ("the root of equality"): a meeting of rural women leaders to strengthen food security, organized by WFP in the framework of the JP GTA, highlights the stories of three female producers in Ecuador.

 

09/12/2022

FAO is promoting sustainable and inclusive development through the Dimitra Clubs approach in Ecuador, a gender transformative approach implemented for the first time in Latin America to promote community engagement for the wellbeing of women, men and youth in rural areas.

 

28/10/2022

A CFS side event co-organized by the JP GTA in October 2022 highlighted how gender transformative approaches have the power to address the underlying causes of gender inequalities and improve food security and nutrition by focusing on discriminatory social norms.

 

12/09/2022

A passion for sustainable agriculture brought together rural associations and technicians from government institutions in Guayas and Morona Santiago, with the aim of facilitating transformative processes that promote gender equality in their communities.