• Executive Summary - Innovation in Informal Settings: A Research Agenda 

  Cozzens, Susan; Sutz, Judith (2012-07)

  The research agenda starts from informal innovators themselves and moves outwards, through organizations they interact with, the patterns they create, and the way they contribute to larger society. Innovation studies ...
• Gender and Innovation a Cross cutting program theme : Innovation Technology and Society; IDRC, January 12, 13 and 14, 2009 

  Ravichandran, Veena (IDRC, Ottawa, ON, CA, 2009)

  The role of women in innovation processes and the impacts on their lives are not well understood. This PowerPoint presentation focuses on questions that address gender imbalance in research, and introduces the Gender and ...
• Gender and the Agricultural Innovation System in Rural Afghanistan: Barriers and Bridges 

  Parto, Saeed (2011-08)

  The presentation outlines research that examined gender dynamics in order to identify the impediments to greater involvement of women in a full range of production from farm to market. The study mapped the agricultural ...
• Darshna Mahila Kalyan Samiti (DMKS) : case study 

  Development Alternatives (Development Alternatives, New Delhi, IN, 2011)

  The Darshna Mahila Kalyan Samiti (DMKS) started a training programme for master masons in Bamari Village, Chattarpur district, under the Poorest Area Civil Society Programme (PACs). They also mobilized women to take up ...
• Mutually reinforcing role of women in habitat based livelihood services : researching the case of India 

  Niazi, Zeenat; Srivastava, Alka; Chopra, Vrinda (Development Alternatives, New Delhi, IN, 2011)

  Rural women working as skilled workers in the habitat and construction sector are a relatively new phenomenon. This report provides details of the project which included organisations: The Barefoot College, The Jeevapoorna ...
• Tilothu Mahila Mandal – Nirmiti Kendra : case study 

  Development Alternatives (Development Alternatives, New Delhi, IN, 2011)

  The Tilothu Mahila Mandal (TMM) runs a school, college, hospital, and several micro-entrepreneurship initiatives. Among the entrepreneurship models is the building centre, the TMM Nimriti Kendra where both men and women ...
• Jeevapoorna Women Masons Society (JEEWOMS) : case study 

  Development Alternatives (Development Alternatives, New Delhi, IN, 2011)

  Many women masons take up work in construction due to dire need, as their husbands are unsupportive or missing altogether. The Jeevapoorna Women Masons Society trains women in masonry. Initially they were taught latrine ...
• Barefoot College : case study 

  Development Alternatives (Development Alternatives, New Delhi, IN, 2011)

  Training has been provided in habitat services to 15,000 women in solar engineering, mechanical repair and fabrication (such as hand pump mechanics), solar cooker engineering, and masonry. Women generally work in groups, ...
• Exploring the Potential of Rural Women in Habitat Services, 13th May 2011, Willow Room, Habitat Centre, New Delhi 

  Development Alternatives (Development Alternatives, New Delhi, IN, 2011)

  This brief describes objectives of Development Alternatives (DA) to highlight the potential innovation and contributions of women to habitat services and the construction sector. The workshop aims to share the findings of ...
• Gender and Innovation Knowledge and Communication Platform (GIKCP) : final technical report 

  Banerjee, Mitu; Nandy, Priyanka; Roy, Priyanka (Society for Development Alternatives, New Delhi, IN, 2011)

  A key objective of the Gender and Innovation platform is to disseminate knowledge on the subject of innovation by and for women. It captures research on, and examples of, innovative activities whose relevance is determined ...
• Rural women in habitat services : exploring case of India, 2009-2011 

  Unknown author (2011)

  Engagement of women in the development and delivery of habitat products and the construction sector can lead to tremendous benefits. The survey results are presented to show the Role of Women in Habitat-based Livelihood ...
• Rural women in habitat services : a policy brief 

  Development Alternatives (Development Alternatives, New Delhi, IN, 2011)

  Due to Gendered Identities and lack of requisite opportunities the level of sustained participation of women as skilled labour in habitat services is limited. With construction being the next biggest employer in the country ...
• Improving innovation promoting methodologies by including gender perspective to foster women’s participation in decision making processes 

  Antezana, Ivonne (2010)

  The Papa Andina project fosters novel approaches combining collective action and innovation processes; it aims to provide equal opportunities for men and women to access the benefits generated by innovations. One of the ...
• Caja de herramientas para la inclusión de género en actividades de los proyectos de la Fundación Promoción e Investigación de Productos Andinos (PROINPA) : fortaleciendo capacidades de innovación participativa para luchar contra la pobreza rural; producción sostenible de hortalizas para mejorar la nutrición, el ingreso familiar y la seguridad alimentaria en Morochata 

  Aviles Irahola, Denis (2010)
• Estrategia de fortalecimiento al enfoque de género en la Fundación Promoción e Investigación de Productos Andinos (PROINPA) 

  Aviles Irahola, Denis (2010)
• Cambios más significativos que los hombres y mujeres identifican en sus vidas a raíz de su articulación a nuevos canales de comercialización 

  Zegarra Begazo, Giuliana (2010)
• Preserving biodiversity of Andean roots and tubers : working with women 

  Cadima, Ximena; Terrazas, Franz; Salazar, Magaly; Calderón, Rayne; Antezana, lvonne (2012)

  The strategy was based on the development of social and economic incentives for in situ conservation of the agrobiodiversity, in micro-centres with high biodiversity. Rural women played a key role in this process. Activities ...
• Fortalecimiento del enfoque de género y empoderamiento en el Enfoque Participativo en Cadenas Productivas (EPCP), plataformas de concertación y evaluación horizontal : guía de pautas 

  Aviles, Denis; Antezana, Ivonne; Salazar, Magaly; Yumisaca, Fausto; Fonseca, Cristina (Centro Internacional de la Papa (CIP), Lima, PE, 2010)
• Gender relationships in production and commercialization of potato seed with small-scale farmers in the Central Andes of Ecuador 

  Conlago, María; Montesdeoca, Fabián; Mayorga, Magdalena; Yumisaca, Fausto; Antezana, Ivonne; Andrade-Piedra, Jorge (2010)

  A rural participatory approach including gender considerations was applied in this project “CONPAPA/Consorcio de la Papa” to improve relationships between seed system participants. Women are a critical component of seed ...
• Preserving biodiversity of Andean roots and tubers : working with women 

  Cadima, Ximena; Terrazas, Franz; Salazar, Magaly; Calderón, Rayne; Antezana, Ivonne (2010)

  PROINPA, CIP-Papa Andina Initiative, and the Bolivian Ministry of Agriculture have worked together in promoting women's participation in producers' associations. Those associations try to increase their member’s income ...

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