Scaling Readiness:
GenderUp may be used independently or together with Scaling Readiness, a method that guides teams towards successful scaling strategies.
How to combine the GenderUp method with the Scaling Readiness Tool?
First, go through the Fit-for-Purpose Step in the Scaling Readiness tool to find out if you would like to use this approach. Then go through the GenderUp journey up to Stage 3. After you have identified socially differentiated groups, you can use these as an entry point in the Characterize Step of Scaling Readiness. From there, continue with the Scaling Readiness tool to systematically identify innovation packages, bottleneck innovations and corresponding scaling strategies that are specific to the groups that you identified with the help of GenderUp.
Scaling Scan:
- Scaling Scan (CIMMYT): The Scaling Scan is a user-friendly tool to explore what is required to scale an innovation in a specific context, the implications this has for project management and collaborations and the potential trade-offs on the environment as well as social dynamics.
Learning Opportunities:
- Online Scaling Course (CGIAR): This online course was developed to support innovation teams and partners in developing a common understanding of innovation and scaling in the context of agricultural research for development.
- Webinar Series – Innovating and Scaling for Social Transformation in International Food Systems: This four week webinar series, hosted by the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Horticulture, discusses innovating and scaling agriculture innovations, with a focus on social differentiation and transformation from various experts in the field.
- FAO e-learning series - "Gender equality in climate change and agrifood systems": This e-learning series facilitates the exchange of promising approaches, tools and good practices that can be used to support the design and implementation of sustainable and gender-transformative policies, legislations and investments to advance gender equality and empower women and youth in the agriculture sector and in agrifood systems.
Scaling Community of Practice:
- Scaling Community of Practice: The CoP is a platform for knowledge exchange among experts and practitioners on approaches to scaling up development interventions, for developing partnerships, and for championing the idea that scaling up development impact is critical for achieving global development aspirations, such as the Sustainable Development Goals and climate change aspirations.
Other Tools:
- Agricultural Scaling Assessment Tool (Feed the Future / Agrilinks): The ASAT is designed to provide a qualitative appraisal of an innovation’s scalability. It provides information on the strengths and weaknesses of the innovation relative to scalability, the most promising scaling up pathways (i.e., commercial, public, or public-private partnerships), and information on the extent to which target contexts -- locations and populations – and their market and public-sector capacity currently facilitate scaling.
- Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (IFPRI): The WEAI measures the empowerment, agency, and inclusion of women in the agriculture sector in an effort to identify ways to overcome those obstacles and constraints.
- NetMap (IFPRI) : NetMap is an interview-based mapping tool that helps people understand, visualize, discuss, and improve situations in which many different actors influence outcomes. By creating Influence Network Maps, individuals and groups can clarify their own view of a situation, foster discussion, and develop a strategic approach to their networking activities.
Other Resources:
- Capacity development for agriculture innovation: This interactive guidebook brings together tools and resources to help practitioners design and implement capacity development activities with an innovation systems approach in mind.
- GENNOVATE (CGIAR): GENNOVATE is a global comparative research initiative that addresses the question of how gender norms and agency influence men, women, and youth to adopt innovation in agriculture and natural resource management.
- Evidence-based Measures of Empowerment for Research on Gender Equity (EMERGE): An initiative and platform focused on measurement of gender equality and empowerment. The platform is designed as a repository of measures and resources for survey reserachers and practitioners working on development, program monitoring and evaluation, and for consideration of state or national indicators.
- Gender equality in agriculture: FAO video. Watch the video
- Women in agriculture: Closing the gender gap for development. Executive summary of FAO's State of Agriculture 2010-2011. Read the summary
- Integrating 'gender' in research for development: How you interpret the term can shape project achievements. Flier from CIMMYT. Read the flier