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.