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Gender

Embracing equity: Reflecting on PxD’s progress on gender and the way ahead

March 8, 2023March 8, 2023

The streets of Mexico City are filled with purple with tens of thousands of women, old and young, who march side by side. They wear purple to highlight the challenges women still face in Mexico.  …

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Letter from Lahore – February 2023

February 9, 2023February 8, 2023

Punjab means “five rivers”, and those five rivers are the reason that the Punjab region in Pakistan is the country’s bread basket.  Tomoko and I were in Punjab last week visiting the PxD Pakistan country …

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Disease, Heat, and Floods: Using digital services to mitigate new challenges to women’s livelihoods in rural Pakistan

October 14, 2022October 14, 2022

When disease and a heatwave, followed by devastating floods ravaged Pakistan’s Punjab province, PxD’s LMAFRP digital information service, which we implement in partnership with the Rural Community Development Society (RCDS) with support from the International …

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Reading the coffee grounds: A landscape analysis of challenges confronting Indian coffee growers

May 17, 2022April 26, 2022

Precision Development (PxD) has completed a landscape analysis to more systematically understand the challenges faced by users of the Coffee Krishi Taranga (CKT) service, with a focus on three core areas, namely, sustainability, market linkages, …

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Increasing information sharing with women farmers in Odishan smallholder households

March 10, 2022March 7, 2022

Precision Development (PxD) recognizes that the informational needs of poor women farmers, and the challenges they confront, are unique. As a consequence, our services must be tailored to reach and be relevant to the needs …

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Milk It, It’s Worth It: Survey & Experimental Data on Household Division of Responsibility & Intra-household Cooperation

October 26, 2021October 26, 2021

Women play important roles in smallholder dairy production. As PxD prepares to roll out a dairy advisory initiative in Kenya, we conducted a gender survey to better understand the division of labor within households. In …

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Leveraging Women’s Groups to Bridge Gender-Specific Information Gaps in India

August 16, 2022October 15, 2021

Vaishnavi Surendra, Post-Doctoral Researcher, and Revati Vaidya, Process and Product Innovation Associate, mark the International Day of Rural Women At PxD, we aim to generate research and design products and services that bridge information gaps …

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Who’s Talking? Varying Narrator Gender to Enhance User Engagement

March 31, 2021March 31, 2021

Sam Carter, Revati Vaidya, Simon Rubangakene, Georges Poquillon and Habtamu Yesiget recount how we improved our content and services by learning about our end-users response to messages recorded with men’s voices and women’s voices. Do farmers act differently when they hear …

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Milking Gender Data for Improved Service Provision in the Kenyan Dairy Sector

June 28, 2021March 24, 2021

Research Associate Sam Strimling argues that one must understand the specific needs of women to inform effective service delivery and presents an upcoming effort to gather these insights prior to launching a PAD advisory service …

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Ploughing Back the Evidence to Empower Women Farmers

March 10, 2021March 8, 2021

As we mark International Women’s Day, this posts reflects upon and celebrate the growing evidence-base of gender-focused research that is intended to inform evidence-based policies and laws to improve the lives of women.

Women, Work, and Women’s Work in International Development

March 8, 2021March 8, 2021

Maya Woser, Senior Research and Operations Associate, Stefania Pozzi, Global Senior Research Associate, and Yifan Powers, Global Senior Research Associate, pull on strands of evidence to assess the effects of patriarchal practices and cultures in …

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