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Focusing the Gender Lens on Science and Innovation: Improving Lives and Livelihoods

Focusing the Gender Lens on Science and Innovation: Improving Lives and Livelihoods. AAAS Annual Meeting February 16, 2014. Gender InSITE Gender in science, innovation, technology and engineering. SITE for Women and Men. How can SITE benefit both women and men equally?

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Focusing the Gender Lens on Science and Innovation: Improving Lives and Livelihoods

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  1. Focusing the Gender Lens on Science and Innovation: Improving Lives and Livelihoods AAAS Annual Meeting February 16, 2014 GenderInSITEGender in science, innovation, technology and engineering

  2. SITE for Women and Men How can SITE benefit both women and men equally? What is the gendered impact of technologies on women and men? Key areas are: • Agriculture, food security and nutrition • Water, sanitation and health • Energy • Infrastructure • Disaster and risk reduction; climate change • Biodiversity and environmental management

  3. SITE for Women and Men Differential impacts of SITE on women and men globally: If women had the same access to productive resources as men, they could increase yields on their farms by 20–30 percent.This could raise total agricultural output in developing countries by 2.5–4 percent, reducing global hunger by 12–17 percent.

  4. SITE for Women and Men Acute Respiratory Infection Rates from Biomass Stoves in Central Kenya In Tanzania, women spend four times as much time on transport-related tasks as men.

  5. Renewable and clean energies • Small-scale, off- grid renewable energy technologies are important for environmental sustainability as well as a source of income-generation – particularly in agriculture and food processing, fisheries and textiles. • The EmPowerproject : training women in India in the maintenance of small energy service units and associated technologies, operation of briquette machines and tree planting. • Collecting garbage for energy production in Rwanda

  6. Gender, water, rural livelihoods and drip irrigation in Nepal • Replaced manual irrigation, with effects on gender roles, work load, household food, nutrition intake and gender perceptions in relation to: vegetable production, the economics of the technology, and its adoption • Drip-irrigated vegetable production a female-dominated activity in production and marketing • Project formed self-help groups, provided technology, and established vegetable collection centres

  7. Women’s SITE Needs: • Technical assistance: technologies, resources and services to improve output and quality; • Inclusion in SITE research and implementation • Access to reliable infrastructure and transport • Credit and venture capital • Capacity building and livelihoodsupport • Protection of women’s IPRs • Access to information and knowledge • Recognition of their knowledge and capacities M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation

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