Addressing gender inequities was identified as important to success from the very beginning of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) in 2011. Phase 1 of the program highlighted addressing gender as a key strategy through which CCAFS research outputs would help next users to champion changes in climate-smart agriculture adoption rates, polices, institutions and gender dynamics.

As a result, the CCAFS gender strategy called for mainstreaming of gender capacity throughout regions and research themes, as well as building the gender programming, research and development capacity of our partners.

Participating CGIAR centres, as well as CCAFS themes and regions, were asked to place a gender lens on their research and capacity development activities.

Lessons in Theory of Change: Gender and Inclusion is the product of an on-going social learning process — the Climate Change and Social Learning Initiative — between CCAFS and its partners. Written by three social scientists from the World Agroforestry Centre, this briefing series highlights lessons learned from working with gender and social inclusion within CCAFS the CGIAR Research Programme on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security.

 Additional reading

• ‪Lessons in theory of change: monitoring, learning and evaluating Knowledge to Action:
• Lessons in Theory of Change from a Series of Regional Planning Workshops: 
• Lessons in theory of change: CCAFS Southeast Asia Research for Development Workshop: 
• Lessons in Theory of Change from the Introductory Training on Theories of Change, Impact Pathways and Monitoring & Evaluation: 
• Lessons in theory of change: experiences from CCAFS: