Gender perspectives in research for development (R4D)

Presentations

Welcome and opening address
Renate Schubert, Gender Delegate to the President of ETH Zurich (PDF, 5.7 MB)

Setting the scene

Promoting women’s well-being and empowerment for economic development
Stephan Klasen, University of Göttingen, Germany (PDF, 394 KB)

Does development favour gender justice? Looking back, current trends and
future challenges
Annemarie Sancar, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (PDF, 3 MB)

Food and health

Women’s roles and constraints as providers of adequate nutrition
Martin Bloem, World Food Programme, Italy (PDF, 9.3 MB)

Who produces healthy food for the rural and urban poor? Gender, innovation,
and agrobiodiversity in small-scale farming
Pablo Eyzaguirre, Bioversity, Italy

Natural resource management and agriculture

Improving food security: Empowering women and girls
Catherine Bertini, Syracuse University New York, USA (PDF, 7.9 MB)

Underlying factors for gender inequality in African agriculture
Chinwe Ifejika Speranza, University of Bern and German Development Institute (PDF, 1 MB)

Sanitation and water

Women, water and sanitation: Rights, responsibilities and ramifications
Sylvia Chant, London School of Economics, UK (PDF, 11.6 MB)

Gender dimensions of sustainable sanitation in Africa: Evidence from the
field and areas for further research
Rosemary Rop, Water and Sanitation Program Africa, World Bank, Kenya (PDF, 4 MB)

Water, women and development: Lessons from an empirical analysis of
rural Benin
Isabel Günther, ETH Zurich (PDF, 11.3 MB)