In order to ensure that IFPRI continues to be a source of sound research on gender, the Gender Task Force (GenTF) was created in 2004 as an interdivisional mechanism to–
- Provide support to researchers interested in incorporating gender into their work;
- Identify new areas for concentrated research on gender;
- Disseminate information about IFPRI’s work on gender to external audiences; and
- Link with relevant gender policy research within the CGIAR.
Although two cross-cutting CGIAR research programs (Agriculture for Nutrition and Health [A4NH] and Policies, Institutions, and Markets [PIM]) now have their own gender strategies, there continues to be a role for a gender task force to coordinate, support, and publicize gender research institute-wide. You can read the full gender strategy here. The current representatives to the Task Force are listed here:
- EPTD: Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Senior Research Fellow (Special Advisor to the GenTF)
- EPTD: Sophie Theis, Research Analyst
- DGO: Laura Zseleczky, Research Analyst
- DSG: Jarilkasin Ilyasov, Research Analyst
- DSG: Catherine Ragasa, Research Fellow
- A4NH: Elena Martinez, Senior Research Assistant
- MTID: Nick Minot, Deputy Division Director
- MTID: Flor Paz, Senior Research Assistant
- PHND: Emily Myers, Senior Research Assistant
- PHND: Naureen Karachiwalla, Research Fellow
- PHND: Agnes Quisumbing, Senior Research Fellow (Chair of the GenTF)
- WCAO/ESARO: Katrin Glatzel, Program Leader/Research Fellow
- CPA: Drew Sample, Senior Media Relations Specialist
- Accra: Noora-Lisa Aberman, Associate Research Fellow
- Addis Ababa: James Warner, Research Coordinator
- Cairo: Hoda El Enbaby, Research Associate (with Hagar ElDidi, Research Associate as alternate)
- Dhaka: Nusrat Z. Hossain, Senior Research Analyst (with Akhter Ahmed, Senior Research Fellow as alternate)
- New Delhi: Muzna Alvi, Associate Research Fellow