1. Core theme: gender, poverty and institutions Photo: Ian Taylor/CPWF Mekong Gender, Poverty, and Institutions

2. Gender strategy A hypothesis: Are women better stewards of the land, water, and ecosystems? How do we increase access of women to land, water and ecosystems? How do we increase decision-making by women on water, land and ecosystems? How do we ensure women can use these resources sustainably ? Research and outcome oriented:

3. The WLE gender matrix: developing research plans  Research opportunities: flagships, focal regions, and own portfolio  Gender matrix: Technical angle: dealing with drought at basin level, where variability is one of the issues Geographic: placing gender within the cultural context but also, for instance, with issues of outmigration in Bihar, India  Research plans: Focal region gender plans Technical research questions and entry points  Outcomes Investable options for women Improved policy options for decision making

4. Focal region gender matrix and gender plans  Gender matrix Irrigation – Nile  Gender plans FR Project portfolio Flagship projects Gender basin profiles …………….

5. From GPI to GIG  Mechanisms for influence Problem statements Gender budgets Gender outputs Gender event  Phase 2: From reactive to responsive Gender and Inclusive Growth

6. FP4: Managing Resource Variability, Risks and Competing Uses for Increased Resilience (VRC) AC 1. Managing resource variability and risks for resilience AC 2. Managing competing uses and trade-offs for resilience GIG: Capability to deal with risk AC 4. Capacity Development AC 3. Decision Analysis and information systems AC 2. Gender, youth and equity AC1. Influencing Policy and Practice (IPP) FP6: Integrated Solutions and Policy Dialogue (ISP) FP1: Regenerating Degraded Landscapes (RDL) AC 1. Social and Economic Evaluation and Piloting Landscape Restoration Options AC 2. Soil Restoration and Soil Carbon AC 3. Land Health Surveillance and Response Framework GIG: Empowered to regenerate FP3: Sustaining Rural- Urban Linkages (RUL) AC 1: City Region Food Systems and urban food security AC 2: Integrated Urban-Rural Water Management AC 3: Business options for nutrient, water and energy recovery and reuse GIG: Economic empowerment through employment AC 3: Ecosystems for livelihoods AC 2: Scaling the Sustainability, Resilience and Ecosystem Services of AFSs AC 1: Sustainable Intensification Criteria and Livelihood Benefits FP5: Sustainability and Ecosystem Resilience (SER) From reactive to transformative FP2: Sustainable Intensification of Land and Water Solutions (LWS ) AC 1. AWLM solutions for resilient smallholder livelihood systems AC 2. Managing soils for productive agricultural AC 3: Maximizing agro-ecosystem values through irrigation services GIG: Economic empowerment through solutions Gender and Inclusive Growth (GIG) Research: Differential impact/benefits/opportunities To increase: →Access to land, water, ecosystems →Decision making over land, water, ecosystems →Restore, rebalance, re-invest in water, land, ecosystems

7. Gender and inclusive growth Inclusive growth for Gende r Youth Equity Inclusive growth through Institutions Policy Governance Markets Inclusive growth: Reduce poverty, inequality, benefit the most marginalized “lower net inequality is robustly correlated with faster and more durable growth” (IMF, 2014). Trickle down policies are not enough More than income – gains in human development and well-being Participation, not just outcomes, engagement in the solution (voice and money) Environmental sustainability a building block – for tomorrow Bottom-line: need to reconcile growth and social development with environmental sustainability Analyze, inform, catalyze and leverage change formal and informal allocation and distribution private, communal, contested, undefined rights tenure and ownership gender barriers, norms and values youth aspiration inaccessible land/water

8. Youth engagement within WLE  Actions Youth paper – will lead into a youth strategy Funding? Point person  Content Entry points -Access -Decision-making -Ability to re-invest Reasons behind Solutions  Think big – Kaduna/Kenya

9. UNITING AGRICULTURE AND NATURE FOR POVERTY REDUCTION