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IPM projects are divided into two broad categories:
regional programs and global theme programs.
Regional
programs address problems of a specific area while
global theme programs deal with universal issues.
Gender and IPM
Learn how
gender
considerations are important to integrated pest
management.
In the
picture below, two Malian gender specialists review a
mapping technique that will be used in a gender training
workshop held in Baguinéda, Mali in the summer of 2009.

At the
workshop—Gender, Participatory Research, and
Technology Transfer—participants learned how to
think about gender relations through a framework for
gender analysis that considers the following domains:
practices and participation, time and space, access and
control, and knowledge, beliefs and perceptions.
After
studying the framework in a classroom, participants
divided into groups and visited villages in the
surrounding area. There, they held discussions with men
and women, asking them about village resources and
developing activity profiles — learning who (men or
women or both) does what activity, when, and where. In
one exercise, villagers drew a map of their village and
the resources in it: a mosque, a soccer field, a
maternity clinic, a well, and a cemetery.
Participants came from Benin, Burkina Faso, Senegal, and
Mali to attend the training event, held at the Office of
the Irrigated Perimeter of Baguinéda, a regional center
outside of the capital of Bamako. This workshop is
described in more detail
here.
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