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Gender Action Learning System for Coffee Chain Upgrading Linda Mayoux Catherine van der Wees and Charles Kainkwa

Gender Action Learning System for Coffee Chain Upgrading Linda Mayoux Catherine van der Wees and Charles Kainkwa. Gender Action Learning System. community-led empowerment methodology aims to give women as well as men more control over their lives

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Gender Action Learning System for Coffee Chain Upgrading Linda Mayoux Catherine van der Wees and Charles Kainkwa

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  1. Gender Action Learning System for Coffee Chain Upgrading Linda Mayoux Catherine van der Wees and Charles Kainkwa

  2. Gender Action Learning System • community-led empowerment methodology • aims to give women as well as men more control over their lives • catalyse and support a sustainable movement for gender justice. • Based on Participatory Action Learning System (PALS). However in GALS the main focus is active promotion of a gender justice movement. Gender Action Learning System Overview: Linda Mayoux, Catherine van der Wees and Charles Kainkwa

  3. Generic Process Principles • Focus on the positive: visioning, strengths, opportunities, win-win to build support for tackling challenges and conflicts • Action from Day 1: SMART activities and targets tracked over time from the very first session • Inclusion : everyone can be a leader of change • Social justice is non-negotiable : including gender • Sustainability : ownership, pyramid peer upscaling and integration Gender Action Learning System Overview: Linda Mayoux, Catherine van der Wees and Charles Kainkwa

  4. Generic Diagram Tools Used at all levels, generally with symbol drawing to increase clarity of thinking and communication between stakeholders • Road Journey – strategic planning with SWOT • Vision and achievement journeys. • Trees – concept mapping. • Gender balance tree • Challenge Action Tree • Circle maps – relationship mapping • Empowerment Leadership Maps • Market Maps • Diamonds – change priorities and assessment • Empowerment, violence, property, decision-making, work etc. Gender Action Learning System Overview: Linda Mayoux, Catherine van der Wees and Charles Kainkwa

  5. Current GALS processes in coffee production • Coffee Partnership for Tanzania project in Kilimanjaro, Mbinga and Kigoma aiming to reach 30,000 coffee farmers over 3 years • ON/IFAD GENVAD project Uganda and Rwanda reaching around 5,000 coffee farmers • TWIN UK Great Lakes Project: Uganda and Congo reaching around 1,000 farmers Gender Action Learning System Overview: Linda Mayoux, Catherine van der Wees and Charles Kainkwa

  6. Champions` Presentation Vision Journey By Lickson Gender Balance Tree By Ms. Ann Social Empowerment Map By Ms. Ann & Lickson Gender Action Learning System Overview: Linda Mayoux, Catherine van der Wees and Charles Kainkwa

  7. Wider Benefits • Significant and documented improvements in coffee quality and productivity in Bukonzo Joint, West Uganda. Anecdotal improvements elsewhere. • Happier men in both farmer and trading households. • Improved communications and understanding between stakeholders throughout the chain. • Peer sharing networks established for dissemination of technical and other types of information. • Participatory processes established as basis for improved organisational and local government planning. Gender Action Learning System Overview: Linda Mayoux, Catherine van der Wees and Charles Kainkwa

  8. For further information see: www.wemanresources.info

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