Volume 3, Number 1
June 1997

IFPRI Supplemental Studies Program On Gender Analysis

Last year the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) posted a call for research proposals for field studies to be undertaken under a research program on "Strengthening Development Policy through Gender Analysis." Funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development/Women in Development (Global office), the research program is being carried out by IFPRI. The call for proposals listed two rounds of submissions, July 1996 and July 1997, for funds up to US$20,000. Thanks to Gender-CG subscribers, who forwarded the announcement to other interested colleagues, IFPRI received a large number of proposals. An interdisciplinary committee reviewed each proposal and ranked it in terms of (1) academic and technical merit; (2) policy relevance, particularly in countries given high priority by the USAID/WID office; (3) ability to complement the concentrated studies of specific countries already planned under the program; and (4) ability to draw on complementary funding as part of a larger project. The last criterion was an attempt to ensure that gender issues would be addressed in a larger research project. IFPRI also sought representation across disciplines, and not just from economists.

Given the overwhelming response to last year's call for proposals and the high quality of the submissions, IFPRI decided, in consultation with its donors, to allocate all the money last year. Even so, less than 50 percent of the proposals received were funded. Because all the funds have been allocated, IFPRI unfortunately cannot solicit proposals for the July 1997 round. IFPRI is pleased to announce that the following studies are being funded under this research program:

Bill Kinsey/John Hoddinott (University of Zimbabwe/Free University; Oxford University/IFPRI)-- The determinants of divorce in Zimbabwe and the consequences for women who return to their natal homes.

Christopher Udry (Northwestern University; Uni-versity of Ghana)--Agricultural innovation and resource management in Ghana.

Gero Carletto (University of California-Berkeley)-- The impact of nontraditional agro-exports on intra-household resource allocation and nutrition in the Guatemalan Central Highlands.

Priscilla Cooke (Free University)--The long-term impact of deforestation on women in rural Nepal.

Marianne Schmink/Avecita Chicchon (University of Florida; Conservation-International Peru)--Gender and intrahousehold effects of community-based conservation and development initiatives in Peru and Brazil.

Elizabeth Katz (Barnard College)--Gender and rural-urban migration in the Ecuadorian Sierra.

Igust Ngurah Agung/Sri Moertiningsih Adioetomo/ Wayan Suriastini/Elizabeth Frankenberg (Lembaga Demografi; RAND)--Collecting data on household decisionmaking in the Indonesian Family Life Survey.

Susana Lastarria-Cornhiel/John Bruce (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Land Tenure Center)--Women's legal rights to property in Ethiopia, South Africa, Bangladesh, and Peru.