Advancing Competitiveness, Reducing Poverty, Empowering Women

Advancing Competitiveness, Reducing Poverty, Empowering Women Applying a Gender Equity Lens to Enhance Value Chain Development CARE / Christian Pennotti / Catherine Hill Development Trainings Services / Cristina Manfre Emerging Markets Group / Jacqueline Bass

Agenda • Welcome • Setting the Stage • Panelist Research Introductions • Panel Discussion • Conceptualizing gender in a value chain context • Incorporating gender into project design and implementation • Measuring results, striving for scale • The road ahead • Questions and Answers

Setting the Stage Why are we still talking about gender and value chain development? Hasn’t gender already been mainstreamed?

Well… not exactly. Some key points. • Lots of progress in broad mainstreaming efforts but need to institutionalize. • Growing global recognition of the need to incorporate gender and women for development to succeed • Buzz Words: Rural, Agriculture, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa • Growing body of evidence and tools for gender integration in value chain and private sector development

Gender Equitable Approaches to VC Development Improve: • Household wellbeing • Women’s employment / access to and control over resources = household wellbeing • Productivity • Women’s access to inputs = yields / ha • Competitiveness • Gender-based labor allocations = economic efficiency • Economic Growth • Increased gender equality correlated with economic growth

Development & Training Services, Inc. (dTS) • Project: Promoting Gender Equitable Opportunities in Agricultural Value Chains • Dates:May 2008 – September 2009 • Countries:Kenya and Tanzania • SummaryTo provide a combined technical assistance and training program that builds staff capacity to: • Understand how gender issues affect agricultural value chains • Learn to apply gender analysis to address gender issues in agricultural value chains • Identify strategies for addressing gender issues in agricultural value chains

Development & Training Services, Inc. (dTS) • Key Research Findings • Program staff encounter gender issues regularly • Program staff need greater ability to address them • Fear of ‘changing culture’ can be challenged • Outliers are now commonplace • Opportunities exist to ‘upgrade’ women’s participation in chains • Creative actions to GbC are easily identifiable and manageable

CARE • Project: A Place to Grow - Empowering Women in our Agriculture Value Chain Programs • Dates: Feb 2008 – Oct 2009 • Countries: Desk Review: 11 Africa, 4 LAC In-Country: Ghana, Mozambique, Uganda, Honduras • Summary: CARE committed to tackle underlying causes of poverty, theory of change ties gender equity to poverty reduction Women = key impact group for agriculture and economic development strategies A Place to Grow - Developed Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Framework - Assessed women’s empowerment through CARE agriculture programs (n = 383 projects, 52 countries; 10M hh) - HG Buffet Foundation supported

CARE Applying the WEA Framework to Land and Property Rights

CARE • Key Research Findings • Good at addressing issues at the individual level (agency); more work needed on root causes, systemic approaches • Many promising practices, but not applied consistently • Key Recommendations • Develop, test, apply organizational/programming approaches re: structure, relations (e.g. engaging men, land and property rights) • Move to program approach, long-term commitment to gender issues (e.g.CARE/partner/donor commitment) • Undertake capacity strengthening as ongoing, monitored process (e.g. improve shared learning, documentation)

Emerging Markets Group Ltd. • Project: Early Lessons Targeting Populations with a Value Chain Approach • Dates:January 2009 • Countries:Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya • Summary: Three project assessment of effects of VC approach on vulnerable populations: • USAID-funded COPE project – links orphans, vulnerable children and caregivers with market-based income- earning training while providing subsidized non-economic benefits. • USAID-funded Uganda SPRING – economic initiatives for peace focused on three value chains in northern Uganda. • Nike Foundation ‘Value Girls’ Project – exclusively targets adolescent girls with economic engagement strategies

Emerging Markets Group Ltd. • Key Research Findings • Utilize an integrated approach • Recognize that the Value Chain Approach Takes Time to Demonstrate Results • Balance Accountability Requirements, Short-Term Needs, and Sustainability • Apply a Specific Lens to the Value Chain Analysis • Move Beyond Demographics • Weigh the Costs and Benefits of Targeting

Advancing Competitiveness, Reducing Poverty, Empowering WomenChristian Pennotti cpennotti@care.orgLaté Lawson-Lartego llawson@care.orgCatherine Hill chill@worldpost.caCristina Manfre cmanfre@onlinedts.comJacqueline Bass jbass@emergingmarkets.com

Advancing Competitiveness, Reducing Poverty, Empowering Women