Integrating Gender in AR4D – Some lessons from experience and Moving forward with CRP 1.3

1. Integrating Gender in AR4D – Some lessons from experienceand Moving forward with CRP 1.3 Ranjitha Puskur

2. Promoting women’s participation in formal and informal livestock and livestock product markets Research issues • What are the pro-poor, pro-women value chains? • What segments of the value chains have greatest benefits for women and their households? • Strategies for increasing participation and benefits to women from value chains • Role of collective action for increasing market participation Partnerships: Government of Ethiopia, Heifer International, LOL etc

3. Example: Improving Productivity and Market Success (IPMS) of Ethiopian Farmers A CIDA funded project, implemented by ILRI on behalf of Ethiopian Min of Ag and Rural Dev during 2005 –2011 10 Pilot Learning Woredas (PLWs) in 4 Regions Goal: to improve the livelihoods of the rural poor through improved productivity and market oriented agricultural production Purpose: to strengthen the effectiveness of the Government’s effort to transform agricultural productivity and production, and rural development in Ethiopia

4. Project: Improving Productivity and Market Success (IPMS) of Ethiopian Farmers Gender strategy Understand Gender Context, design and implement interventions Capacity building – project and partner staff, government and extension functionaries, policy makers Promoting gender equity in market-led agricultural development opportunities as a step towards achieving gender equality M&E to track changes, outcomes and impact Research and knowledge generation

5. What helped.. • Results based gender strategies and gender sensitive planning • Gender sensitive monitoring and evaluation system • Gender baseline information on commodities collected • Gender informative materials and other facts produced and shared among partners • Various knowledge sharing events organized inspired many women to be engaged • Provision of knowledge and skills to partners and project staff on Gender mainstreaming helped change the mindset of frontline workers about GA

6. A Workshop on Gender and Market-oriented Agriculture 2010 (AgriGender 2010): Research to Practice 9-11 Nov 2010: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Objectives: • To bring together researchers, practitioners, private sector and donors that have been working on efforts to promote market oriented agriculture in which gender is an integral component, to share lessons • To synthesize lessons on what works in integrating gender and promoting women to participate in and benefit from agricultural markets • To collate empirical evidence of the poverty, equity, food security and nutritional impacts of market-oriented agriculture • To begin to build a new paradigm for market-oriented research and funding that serves the interests of women http://agrigender.wordpress.com

7. Consortium Gender Strategy • Support to Gender strategy development and implementation • Formation of a Gender network for all CRPs to facilitate sharing of methodologies and tools, good practices, experiences, lessons • Support to capacity building of project and partner staff

8. CRP 3.7 More milk, meat and fish.. Objective:To use gender transformative approaches that will examine, question and change gender inequalities in livestock and fish development interventions as a means for achieving increased productivity, income and poverty reduction as well as gender equity objectives. Outcome: Increased benefits to women and youth from livestock and aquaculture value chains (more jobs, more participation/ engagement in chains, more income and other chain benefits (e.g new technologies)) going to women and youth )

9. Implementation Strategy Four main strategies: • Identification of key gender issues in livestock and aquaculture value chains and technology development and access • Mainstreaming gender in value chain development /innovation, technology development and dissemination and capacity building • Gender specific actions /action research to address gender constraints • Research on interactions between gender and value chains, technology development, income and markets, food security and nutrition and other impacts

10. Activities • Development of tools for gendered value chain analysis • Gendered value chain analysis of livestock and fish value chains to understand the different roles of women, men, children and the poor in different segments of the value chain • Gendered value chain analysis of the feed sector to identify types of feed chains that the poor and women can benefit in have the most economic benefits, identify the roles, constraints and opportunities for their participation • Development of methods /approaches and identification of strategies to address gender in value chain development, technology development, delivery and adaptation and marketing

11. Activities • Develop the skills/capacity of program staff and partners to identify and address gender issues in the development of livestock and fish value chains • Action research to test and evaluate approaches for increasing access to women and other marginalized social groups to assets, technologies, services and other innovations • Analysis of the gender and intra‐household implications of changes in livestock value chains including on consumption and nutritional status, distribution of economic and social benefits and the trade‐offs between market orientation and food security • Establish an information sharing and learning platform for sharing gender good practices, lessons and challenges across all the value chains, centers and other stakeholders (with links to other value chain research in CRP2)

12. What does it take to make gender integration in R4D a success? • Donor and management support • Having a very clearly spelt out gender strategy and an implementation plan, including a robust gendered M&E and IA framework • Having a team assigned to be responsible, but at the same time mainstreaming through the project – Champions necessary! • Having focal persons at various levels of the implementation structure • Influencing mindsets, practices and skills of project staff and partners, especially at the field level • Necessary resources (including time) allocated • Included in work plans and performance appraisal and recognition and appreciation– incentives • Communications and Knowledge Management support

13. CRP 1.3 Gender roll out 2012 • Gender strategy detailed for submission to Consortium • Identify/recruit gender focal points in all themes and country teams • Incorporate/revise existing gender tools in Handbook • Integrate tools and checklists in Diagnosis methodology and design • Integrate gender in M&E framework • Capacity building activities for project and partner staff • Consult/involve gender experts and women’s organizations in designing and implementing scoping so that right questions are asked • Consult both women and men from the scoping stage

14. CRP 1.3 Gender roll out 2012 • Do a gender analysis to understand gender relations and roles, and the gendered nature of livelihood activities, capabilities, assets, decision-making and needs (literature review and field assessment) • Include the findings of analysis in all components of the program design • Identify barriers to women’s participation and decision-making in each component of the program • Include a targeted component for women to redress existing gender disparities • Include a gender budget • Identify risks associated with promoting gender equality and strategies to minimize these risks • Identify a partnership network and champions to work on gender issues within the program

15. Issues to discuss in table groups.. • What capacities and skills are available in the project teams to integrate gender? Are there any gaps? • What challenges do you anticipate in gender mainstreaming in the roll out of the CRP and, what resources, mechanisms and processes are needed to address them?