Presented by Elizabeth Bryan, Senior Scientist, Environment and Production Technology Division (EPTD), International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), June 8, 2022. This presentation was for a lightning session on gender and resilience at a USAID Center for Resilience Cross-Agency Resilience Learning Event.

1. State of Knowledge on Gender and Resilience:
What Does the Evidence Show?
Elizabeth Bryan (E.Bryan@cgiar.org), Senior
Scientist, Environment and Production
Technology Division (EPTD), International
Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
June 8, 2022
Credit: Carla Roncoli

2. Why pay attention to gender in resilience
programming?
Climate Crisis
COVID-19
Food Price Crisis

3. Why Pay Attention to Gender in Resilience
Programming?
Multiple, overlapping global crises including climate change, COVID-19, and
the global food crisis have differential effects on men and women.
So the global community should:
• Ensure programs to address these crises are implemented in a socially
inclusive and gender equitable way
• Reach the most vulnerable populations (often women) to mitigate potential
harm
• Enhance the effectiveness of interventions by ensuring that both men and
women have the capacity to respond to shocks and stressors and
contribute to increasing resilience, including achieving food security and
improving health outcomes and nutrition

4. Gender, Climate Change, and
Nutrition (GCAN) Framework:
Gender and Resilience Dimensions
▪ Key elements of resilience requiring a
gender lens:
o Exposure and sensitivity to shocks
and stresses
o Resilience capacities
o Decision-making context and
responses choices
oPathways and well-being outcomes

5. Conclusions and Policy Implications
▪ Appropriate interventions/approaches depend
on the context
▪ Policies and interventions must incorporate a
gender lens to close gaps
▪ Some promising interventions include:
oHousehold and community dialogues to promote
joint decision-making (budgeting, NRM etc)
oClosing resource gaps (access to land/water)
oGroup-based approaches (e.g. women’s self-help
groups)
oBuild women’s assets (e.g. through social
protection programs targeted to women)