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Mr.PVGK Murthy is the Director of Ingrain Technologies, an agri- sector specific consulting organization. Ingrain Technologies is a progressive consulting firm operating in the areas of agriculture, horticulture, natural resources, rural development , agri-business and lively hoods. Consulting, marketing research, evaluation and impact analysis and agri-advisory services are the important areas of operation at Ingrain. (www.ingraintechnologies.com)

Julio Ugarte-Guerra is a professional Forester and Natural Resources Manager with over 20 years of experience in management in a wide range of tropical environments. He has undertaken tasks for a diverse range of partners including National and International Agencies, Corporate land-managers and private farmers.

Gender-responsive systems analysis and assessment seems to me the solution for mainstreaming and integrating gender, where it must be integrated, to achieve gender equity and gender equality.

The real challenge is in intervening into the system to achieve social change. One route I find quite successful is empowering women in their accepted, current social roles such as economic social roles. The active and conscious influence on social roles and connected socio-cultural systems elements and structures is still a puzzle - and far from our projected causal impact pathways.

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