Integrating gender issues in food security, agriculture and rural development

In line with ongoing reforms aimed at a more effective and coherent UN system and wider efforts for greater harmonization and alignment of aid delivery, Joint Programmes have become increasingly numerous over the past two years. Joint Programmes open up significant opportunities to strengthen a collective UN response to supporting gender equality at country level. However, lessons learned from a review of Joint Programmes note that they have not fully maximized their potential to mainstream cross-cutting issues such as gender equality, and suggest that these issues should be more integrated when UN organizations work together.