Key Functions

Knowledge Generation and Research Integration

• Promote gender-responsive research frameworks and methodologies.
• Encourage development of drudgery-reducing, inclusive, and climate-smart technologies tailored to women farmers.
• Facilitate the collection and use of gender-disaggregated data (GDD) at all levels.

Capacity Building and Skill Development

• Conduct gender-sensitization programs for researchers, educators, and extension personnel.
• Ensure that at least one-third of beneficiaries in all training and capacity-building programs are women, progressing toward 50% participation.
• Support leadership development for women in agriculture.

Extension Support and Outreach

• Develop and implement gender-equitable extension models suited to crops, regions, and socio-cultural contexts.
• Promote awareness and utilization of government schemes, credit facilities, and subsidies among women.
• Strengthen women-led institutions, producer groups, and collectives.

Communication, Advocacy, and Campaigns

• Lead national-level campaigns such as Krishika Shakti to highlight women’s roles in agriculture.
• Use mass media and digital platforms to disseminate content on land rights, caregiving responsibilities, women’s innovations, and leadership in agriculture.

Partnerships and Collaboration

• Build partnerships with government agencies, NGOs, academia, civil society, and the private sector.
• Facilitate at least twenty active collaborations supporting women-centric innovations and interventions.
• Serve as a national hub for knowledge exchange on gender in agriculture.

Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting

• Establish a gender-responsive monitoring and evaluation (M&E) framework for all research and extension activities.
• Maintain an institutionalized gender database and produce annual monitoring reports.
• Track key performance indicators (KPIs) such as integration of gender components, institutional gender cells, and participation targets.