#AskAg Twitter Chat: Gender in Agriculture — Not Only About Women
Event Information
Join us on International Women’s Day, March 8, to discuss "Gender in Agriculture — Not Only About Women." We’ll have a panel of expert tweeters to discuss gender integration for agriculture and food security, including how to incorporate gender-based violence (this year’s IWD theme), engage men and boys, and best practices in gender analysis. This twitter chat is the latest event in the Gender Global Learning and Evidence Exchange and we invite USAID, implementing partner staff, and the Twitter community to contribute. We look forward to your participation!
Guiding questions
1. Gender-based violence (GBV)/violence against women: This year's theme for International Women's Day is "Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls." We see that GBV is an important issue is an important issue in many (if not all) the countries where we work, yet it remains a challenge to incorporate GBV in agriculture and food security programming. What experiences have you had in addressing GBV in sectors such as agriculture and food security?
2. Engaging men and boys: USAID and its partners have moved from the classic "women in development approach" (focusing on women only) to "gender and development" (changing the social relations between men and women). How can we engage men and boys to address gender equality or women's empowerment in your programs?
3. Gender analysis: Gender analysis is a crucial step in ensuring that projects address the different needs and interests of men and women. Yet it is often a step that is overlooked, and when gender analysis does take place, the findings are not always incorporated into the project design. How do we overcome these challenges and incorporate gender analysis into our projects?
Twitter accounts to follow
- Mara Russell: @MaraRussell_IDD
- Land O'Lakes International Development: @LandOLakesIDD
- Greta Schettler: @Greta_Schettler
- Wenchi Yu: @WenchiState
- U.S. Department of State Office of Global Women's Issues: @S_GWI
- Lindsey Jones: @LindseyJonesR
- ACDI/VOCA: @acdivoca
- Sylvia Cabus: @CabusSylvia
How to participate
- If you are new to Twitter, visit Twitter.com to sign up for an account. (For more tips on getting started, check out our Twitter 101 Training.)
- Explore the guiding questions that will be discussed during the chat.
- Join us for discussion on March 8 at 12 pm EST by using the hashtag #AskAg and following @Agrilinks.
- You can also follow on Twubs or through the livestream below.
Livestream
Speakers
Mara Russell
Land O’Lakes International Development
Greta Schettler
U.S. Department of State
Greta is the Senior Economic and Entrepreneurship Policy Advisor for the Secretary’s Office of Global Women’s Issues (S/GWI) focusing on programs, policies, and public-private partnerships that support women’s economic inclusion and entrepreneurship. She manages economic policies, programs, and initiatives for South and Central Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, and the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Policy Partnership on Women and the Economy. In 2011, she was a core team member in the development of the APEC Women and the Economy Summit in San Francisco and the San Francisco Declaration. Additionally, Greta serves as the Liaison Officer for the Secretary’s International Council on Women’s Business Leadership for the Subcommittee on Access to Capital and is the lead on several initiatives linking women’s entrepreneurship and agriculture.
Prior to joining the Office of Global Women’s Issues, Greta worked for USAID/Tanzania on Health and HIV/AIDS issues and for the Inter-American Development Bank’s Multi-lateral Investment Fund. Before receiving her Master in Science and Foreign Service from Georgetown University, with a concentration on International Development, Greta worked as a consultant in the United Arab Emirates where she focused on local work force development, business process improvement, human resources, change management, technology, and communications for public and private sectors entities in the Middle East, Northern Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.
Greta has a post graduate certificate in entrepreneurship, conducted graduate work in economics at John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and the London School of Economics, and a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin.
Wenchi Yu
U.S. Department of State
Lindsey Jones
ACDI/VOCA
Sylvia Cabus
USAID