Addressing Gender-Based Violence in Agriculture and Food Security Programs
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The Feed the Future Advancing Women’s Empowerment (AWE) Program and the CGIAR GENDER Platform have the pleasure of inviting you to view our recent webinar, “Addressing Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in Agriculture and Food Security Programs.”
This webinar presents tools, resources, and field experiences for implementers to prevent, mitigate, and respond to GBV in agriculture programming. Speaking at the event are AWE’s Katie Cheney, who is leading a team developing a GBV toolkit specifically for agriculture practitioners working in the field, and Dr. Renee Bullock, who shared findings from a CGIAR International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) initiative that sought to improve women’s financial capabilities in a quest to address GBV in Bukavu, DRC.
Speakers
Katie Cheney
Gender Integration Specialist
EnCompass LLC
Katie Cheney is EnCompass' Gender Integration Specialist II, supporting the Advancing Women's Empowerment (AWE) Program and USAID/Ethiopia Transform: Primary Health Care activities. She brings over 7 years of experience in gender, social inclusion, and M&E. She has provided support to various USAID contracts with a focus on gender, including child protection protocol implementation for an evaluation tracking gender-based violence, contraceptive security, and integrating gender empowerment principles into project design.
Renee Bullock
Scientist, Gender and environment
International Livestock Research Institute
Renee Bullock joined the Sustainable Livestock System Program in Kenya in ILRI in August 2018. Her current work includes understanding socially differentiated abilities and capacities to adapt to climate change and youth specific opportunties and constraints in the dairy sector in East Africa. She previously worked at the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture from 2014-2018 and lived in Kenya and the Democratic Republic of Congo. During these years she contributed to efforts to mainstream gender in the Roots, Tubers and Bananas Program. Her research and development efforts included understanding gender and innovation in farming systems, youth employment, and gender based violence in Central and West Africa. Renee earned her PhD in Geography in 2015 from the University of Florida, during which time she had multiple fellowships with the World Agroforestry Centre to investigate spice value chains in the East Usambaras, Tanzania. She was born and grew up in New Jersey, USA.
Friederike Strub
Research Associate
MarketShare Associates
Friederike Strub is a women’s economic empowerment specialist currently working as a Research Associate at MarketShare Associates. She has championed inclusive development and gender equality across multilaterals, NGOs, and development consulting firms for more than five years. At MSA, she leads research, provides strategy advice, and manages projects with USAID, World Bank/IFC, ILO, GIZ, Gates Foundation, and more. As part of the AWE team, Friederike leads on piloting the GBV Toolkit with a Ugandan Feed the Future partner project. Friederike holds a Master's degree in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School with a focus on development and gender.
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