USAID’s Office of Food for Peace
Occasional Paper No. 7

Gender Integration in USAID Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance Office of Food for Peace Operations (2011)

Overcoming gender inequality is a key element of reducing global hunger. In 2009, USAID’s Office of Food for Peace (FFP) declared an enhanced focus on gender as essential to food security and included the evaluation of “gender equity in the access to and control over resources and benefits” as a review criterion for evaluation of Title II program applications. To operationalize this focus on gender, FFP requested FANTA-2 support to identify how to integrate and mainstream gender in all its activities.

This occasional paper, developed by FANTA-2 with extensive input from FFP staff in Washington and at Missions, as well as from implementing partners, recommends various stages and steps to strengthen FFP and Title II Awardees’ capacity to integrate and mainstream gender in all FFP-funded activities. This guidance will enable FFP to develop a strategy on how to strengthen its capacity and understanding of gender mainstreaming and identifies milestones to monitor progress and evaluate results.

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