On July 22, 2022, a panel discussion was held online featuring experts working at the nexus of gender integration and livestock. The panelists highlighted key, practical, and readily available resources that development practitioners can use to effectively integrate gender in livestock program design and implementation. Panelists discussed ongoing research in the field of livestock and gender, including their views on persistent knowledge gaps, developing trends, and other issues on the horizon in the sector.

• A video of this event is available here.
• A PDF of the presentation is here: Integrating Gender into Global Livestock System Development

Panelists

Farzana Ramzan (moderator), Senior Gender Advisor, Bureau for Resilience and Food Security, USAID

Beth Miller, President, Miller Consulting; and Co-facilitator of the Gender & Livestock CoP of Livestock Data for Decisions (LD4D)

Kathy Colverson, Lead, Gender & Youth for the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems; Associate Research Scientist, Animal Sciences, University of Florida

Immaculate Omondi, Gender Research Economist, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

Collaboration

This online event is presented by the Bureau for Resilience and Food Security of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), in cooperation with the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems.

List of Resources

Here is a list of many of the resources shared during this presentation. Refer to the presentation's PDF above for more details.

• National Strategy on Gender Equity and Equality: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/National-Strategy-on-Gender-Equity-and-Equality.pdf 
• USAID Gender Good Practices in Livestock Toolkit: http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PA00Z5PH.pdf 
• Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards (LEGS): https://www.livestock-emergency.net/
• Gender Community Conversations: https://livestockdata.org/event/gender-livestock-value-chains-ld4d-community-conversation
• Gender and Livestock in Emergencies Discussion Paper: https://www.livestock-emergency.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/LEGS-Gender-Discussion-Paper-WEB-INDIVIDUAL.pdf 
• On-line training module on LEGS and gender: https://www.livestock-emergency.net/new-line-training-module-legs-gender/ 
• SEBI-Livestock: https://sebi-livestock.org/
• Livestock Data for Decisions (LD4D): livestockdata.org
• Gender Community Conversations: https://livestockdata.org/event/gender-livestock-value-chains-ld4d-community-conversation
• Gender & Youth Cross-Cutting Theme : https://livestocklab.ifas.ufl.edu/themes/cctgy/
• University of Florida Food Systems Institute: https://foodsystems.ifas.ufl.edu/
• Integrating Gender and Nutrition into Agriculture Extension Systems (INGENAES): https://ingenaes.illinois.edu/ifta/ 
• Feed the Future Livestock Systems Innovation Lab https://livestocklab.ifas.ufl.edu/themes/cctgy/ 
• Course on Integrating Gender and Youth into Livestock Research Projects: https://ifas-livestock-innovation-lab.catalog.instructure.com/courses/integrating-gender-and-youth-into-livestock-research-projects 
•  Women's Empowerment in Livestock Index (WELI): https://www.ilri.org/contact-weli
  

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This work was funded in whole or part by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Bureau for Resilience and Food Security under Agreement # AID-OAA-L-15-00003 as part of Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems.  Additional funding was received from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation OPP#1175487.  Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed here are those of the authors alone.