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rather than as isolated gender projects. Ideally gender should be integrated
at the design stage.
2 Move from discourse to practical action with demonstrable gender results.
This requires leadership, resources, consistency, incentives and vision
balanced with realistic ambition.
3 Value multiple strategies that recognize and demonstrate the centrality of
gender in the research and the necessity of individual and organizational
cultural change.
4 Share the expertise through companion science where social scientists/
gender experts within teams spend time with and accompany engineers
and modelers.
5 Gender is increasingly seen within wider considerations of power and
alongside dynamics of youth, indigenous people and religious differences.
6 Concrete documentation emerging from research should cover both
research and the process of gender integration.
7 Addressing gender requires multiple approaches; there is no magic bullet.
8 By understanding the many forms of gender attitudes, the CPWF
community can address the issues of power and voice, which the poorest
and most vulnerable lack.
9 R4D that is relevant and credible must include gender and equity so that
women can access resources and engage in the development process.
10 Examine attitudes to gender in implementing institutions so that researchers
and implementers understand their role in addressing gender inequalities
and are willing to change themselves.
11 Planning and gender responsive learning (monitoring, review and evalua-
tion) requires finance and skilled technical human resources.
Knowledge management and communication
Knowledge management
The CPWF defined knowledge management (KM) as the process of capturing,
developing, sharing and effectively using knowledge. KM and communica-
tions are integral parts of the research process and a field of research in its own
right (Harvey et al., 2012).
The CPWF saw KM as central to learning and innovation (Box 3.7), con-
cerned with managing knowledge produced by research to influence decision-
makers. It was central to stakeholder engagement, networking and partnerships
and was therefore important in achieving CPWF research and development
goals (CPWF, 2010). This required three things:
•
Having the right information available to support decision-making;
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Using M&E to obtain the right information; and
•
Using communications tools to influence knowledge, attitudes and skills in
support of behavioral change.
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