Table of contents for Food security in practice : using gender research in development / Agnes R. Quisumbing and Bonnie McClafferty.

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Contents
Preface	vii
1. The Importance of Gender and Intrahousehold Research Informing 
Projects and Policies	1
The Importance of Households in Influencing the Allocation of Resources and 
Development Interventions	4
An Overview of IFPRI?s Gender and Intrahousehold Research Program	9
General Findings from IFPRI?s Research Program	11
Using the Project and Policy Cycles as Frameworks for Incorporating Gender 
Research	16
Organization of the Guide	24
2. Gender and Intrahousehold Aspects of Food Policy: Research Findings for 
Development Projects	27
Addressing Gender in Needs Assessment and Problem Definition	27
Addressing Gender in Project Design	42
Addressing Gender in Project Implementation and Monitoring	58
Addressing Gender Issues in Evaluation	60
3. Weaving Gender Research into Project Design and Public Policy: 
Implications of the Research Results	69
Implications of Gender Research for Project Managers	69
Implications of Gender Research for Policymakers	79
Appendix	85
References	155
Tables
Tables
1 Information needs for integrating gender and intrahousehold information in the 
project cycle	17
2 Using IFPRI?s intrahousehold research findings in development projects	25
3 Poverty profiles for male-headed (MHH) and female-headed households (FHH) 
and males and females, based on the 33rd percentile consumption per equivalent 
adult of the combined distribution	31
4 Women?s status, by country and region (countries with lower rank have lower 
women?s status)	33
5 Assets at marriage and human capital of husband and wife	34
6 Distribution of land inheritance between males and females, parent and child 
generations	36
7 The impact of VFC participation on head male and female time, by the number of 
children age 0-4.9 years	48
8 Characteristics of families using the Hogares Comunitarios Program compared to 
families from the random sample	57
9 Use of qualitative techniques for collecting different blocks of data	67
Appendix Table
Appendix Table 1 Sample size and survey data collected	153
Figures
Figure 1 Project life cycle	19
Figure 2 Research and the policymaking process	22
Boxes
1 The nature of gender differences	1
2 The costs of doing gender research: Is it worth it?	3
3 Technology adoption, by male and female farmers	7
4 11
5 Farming systems and gender roles	28
6 IFPRI?s evaluation of PROGRESA in Mexico	63
7 Methods for operational evaluation of the Hogares Comunitarios Program in 
Guatemala	64
8 Methodology for the Impact Evaluation of Hogares Comunitarios Program in 
Guatemala	65
9 Using quantitative and qualitative methods to evaluate agricultural technologies 
in Bangladesh	66

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:

Women in development -- Developing countries.
Food supply -- Developing countries.
Economic development projects -- Developing countries.