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Impact in India
Indian women, who compose almost 50 percent of the workforce in India’s fruit and vegetable sector, moved away from traditional unskilled jobs and earn better positions in processing units and become commercial horticulture entrepreneurs.
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Specialists in Gender
A list of our technical specialists in Gender.
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Projects in Gender
Our current projects that center around Gender or
include Gender as a component.
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Stories about Gender
Read news archives about the impact of our work in Gender.
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Gender
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Because women and men often use different strategies to improve the economic and physical well-being of their families, businesses, and communities, Chemonics’ gender practice works to ensure that project activities are designed with an understanding of how and when gender-based differences may affect project impact. The practice provides tools and strategies that support our staff, clients, and partner institutions in analyzing gender-based differences that — unless recognized and mitigated — can negatively affect project outcomes. Above all, the practice strives to advance Chemonics’ efforts to improve gender equity and equality through our projects in the countries where we work.
- Gender Analysis and Assessments: We use gender analysis and assessments to examine the roles, rights, and responsibilities of men and women and the obstacles, opportunities, and choices available to them in a given society and within a given sector. We assess which donor groups, nongovernmental organizations, and governmental agencies are working with gender issues and collaborate with them, building on their successes and identifying gender knowledgeable partners.
- Institutional Audits and Policy Reform: We work with governmental and nongovernmental institutions to audit systems and services to ensure they are sensitive to gender and issues of concern to women and girls. Our analysis aims to ensure legal, educational, political, and economic equity in these institutions. Based on the audit, we recommend policy reform and improvements.
- Integrating Gender into Broader Development Efforts: Gender is a cross-cutting variable that Chemonics takes into account in all development sectors. The gender practice designs program interventions and trainings and a maintains a reporting an communications system that disseminates lessons learned, good practices, and effective strategies to ensure that gender-based differences are considered in all types of development projects.
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