GenderUp

A conversational method that supports innovation teams in responsible scaling

Moving Beyond Adoption

While many approaches to scaling innovations focus on removing bottlenecks that limit adoption, GenderUp goes further by identifying and eliminating barriers that prevent marginalized social groups from benefiting equally.

The GenderUp Journey

A global network of 160 (and growing!) trained GenderUp facilitators are ready to take your innovation team through intentional conversations about the inclusive reach and impact of your innovation.

Inclusive Impact

A GenderUp workshop equips your team with a new and improved scaling strategy that ensures everyone can equitably benefit from your innovation.

GenderUp takes Innovation Teams through Five Stages:

Is GenderUp Right for You?

Find your fit, whether that’s being a facilitator of GenderUp workshops, or participating in GenderUp workshops as part of an innovation team.

Training participant introducing themselves in Nepal

Training participant presenting in Guatemala

Training participant sharing their thoughts in Guatemala

Team identifying intersectional groups when scaling their innovation

Team in the Philippines discussing the Persona Activity

Training participant introducing herself in Nepal

"I have gained more [information] about gender inequalities in the use of innovations where the women farmers are less likely to adopt new technologies compared to men farmers and the agricultural innovations can transform gender relations in negative and positive ways."

"[GenderUp helped me] realize the possibility that our project can create new or further existing disparities."

"What I appreciated the most about the GenderUp process was that we received actionable strategies to include people from different social groups in using our innovation. It also made me think deeply about how important small inclusion activities are in making our innovation more scalable in the future."

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Contributors

Recognizing a gap in focus on gender and other relevant diversity in scaling support tools, the development of GenderUp was funded by the CGIAR Research Programme on Roots Tubers and Bananas (RTB) and also benefited from the Senior Expert Programme funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO).

The team that developed GenderUp was led by Cees Leeuwis (Wageningen University) and Anne Rietveld (The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT) and further consisted of Erin Mcguire (UCDavis), Bela Teeken (IITA) and Vanya Slavchevska (The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT).

The former Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Horticulture further developed and scaled GenderUp prior to Responsible Innovations taking over leadership for advancing the tool and method.