La Herramienta de Análisis de Género en los Servicios de Asesoramiento Rural (GRAST) de la FAO está diseñada para apoyar a los proveedores de servicios de asesoramiento rural en sus esfuerzos por desarrollar programas que tengan en cuenta las cuestiones de género. Al llevar a cabo un análisis de género de los servicios de asesoramiento rural a nivel político, organizativo e individual, GRAST proporciona puntos de entrada para mejorar la sensibilidad de género en el diseño y la prestación de los servicios de asesoramiento de una manera verdaderamente transformadora. Su objetivo final es garantizar que los servicios de asesoramiento rural respondan a las necesidades y prioridades tanto de las mujeres como de los hombres del medio rural y que, en consecuencia, puedan acceder a estos servicios y beneficiarse de ellos por igual.

Muchos de los programas de protección social, incluyendo los de transferencias monetarias, de obras públicas y de transferencias de activos, se dirigen a las mujeres como principales beneficiarias o receptoras de los beneficios. Extender la protección social a las poblaciones rurales tiene un gran potencial para fomentar el empoderamiento económico de las mujeres rurales. Sin embargo, para aprovechar este potencial, son necesarias acciones adicionales. Existe un amplio margen para hacer que las políticas y programas de protección social sean más sensibles al género y para alinearlos mejor con las políticas de desarrollo agrícola y rural para contribuir a enfrentar las desigualdades de género. Reconociendo este potencial y aprovechando la evidencia existente, la FAO busca mejorar la contribución de la protección social a la igualdad de género y el empoderamiento de las mujeres mediante la asistencia técnica a nivel país para el desarrollo de capacidades, la generación de conocimiento y el apoyo programático. Para avanzar en esta agenda, la FAO ha desarrollado la Caja de herramientas para programas de protección social sensibles al género orientados a luchar contra la pobreza y el hambre en el medio rural. La Caja de herramientas está diseñada para apoyar a los formuladores de políticas y profesionales en sus esfuerzos para aplicar sistemáticamente un enfoque de género que esté en línea con los acuerdos globales y los compromisos de la FAO para ampliar los sistemas de protección social inclusivos a las poblaciones rurales. Esta Caja se enfoca en el rol de la protección social para reducir las desigualdades sociales de género, así como la pobreza y el hambre en las zonas rurales.

The State of Economic Inclusion Report 2021 sheds light on one of the most intractable challenges faced by development policy makers and practitioners: transforming the economic lives of the world's poorest and most vulnerable people. Economic inclusion programs are a bundle of coordinated, multidimensional interventions that support individuals, households, and communities so they can raise their incomes and build their assets. Programs targeting the extreme poor and vulnerable groups are now under way in 75 countries. This report presents data and evidence from 219 of these programs, which are reaching over 90 million beneficiaries. Governments now lead the scale-up of economic inclusion interventions, often building on preexisting national programs such as safety nets, livelihoods and jobs, and financial inclusion, and 93 percent of the total beneficiaries are covered by government programs. The report offers four important contributions: -- A detailed analysis of the nature of these programs, the people living in extreme poverty and vulnerability whom they support, and the organizational challenges and opportunities inherent in designing and leading them. -- An evidence review of 80 quantitative and qualitative evaluations of economic inclusion programs in 37 countries. -- The first multicountry costing study including both government-led and other economic inclusion programs, indicating that programs show potential for cost efficiencies when integrated into national systems. -- Four detailed case studies featuring programs under way in Bangladesh, India, Peru, and the Sahel, which highlight the programmatic and institutional adaptations required to scale in quite diverse contexts. Data from the report are available on the PEI Data Portal (http://www.peiglobal.org), where users can explore and submit data to build on this baseline.

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In this new book Henrietta Moore examines the nature and limitations of the theoretical languages used by anthropologists and others to write about sex, gender and sexuality. Moore begins by discussing recent feminist debates on the body and the notion of the non-universal human subject. She then considers why anthropologists have contributed relatively little to these debates, and suggests that this has much to do with the history of anthropological thought with regard to the conceptualization of "persons" and "selves" cross-culturally. Moore develops a specific anthropological approach to feminist post-structuralist and psychoanalytic theory. In subsequent chapters Moore pursues a series of related themes including the links between gender, identity and violence; questions of gender and identity in the context of intra-household resource allocation; the construction of domestic space and its relationship to bodily practices and the internationalization of relations of difference; and the links between the gender of the anthropologist and the writing of anthropology. This volume demonstrates anthropology's contribution to current debates in feminist theory.

Biodiversity, sometimes simply understood as "diversity of species", is a specific quality of life on our planet, the dimensions and importance of which have just lately been fully realized. Today we know that "biological diversity is a global asset of incalculable value to present and future generations" (Kofi Annan). Biodiversity is spread unequally over the world: in fact, the main share of biological resources worldwide is harboured predominantly by the so-called developing countries in the tropics and sub tropics. Therefore, Biodiversity - A Challenge for Development Research and Policy was chosen as the title for an international conference which was held in Bonn in 1997 as one of the first major events organized by the then newly established North-South Centre for Development Research (ZEF) at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat Bonn (Germany). Since the ZEF, founded by the Senate of the University of Bonn in 1995, has played a central role in turning Bonn into a centre for international cooperation and North-South dialogue. The Centre is a product of the Bonn Berlin agreement of July 1994 which was adopted to offset the effects caused by the Parliament and much of the Government moving to Berlin. It fits in well with the double strategy to strengthen Bonn's position as an interna tional science arena and as an eminent place for development policy and the national and supranational agencies dealing with this issue.