Gaap project conceptual framework presentation oct 13 2011
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The Gender and Agricultural Assets Project (GAAP) aims to reduce the gap between men's and women's control of assets through evaluating how agricultural development programs build women's assets. The 3-year project is led by IFPRI and ILRI and includes evaluations of projects in Africa and South Asia that transfer individual assets, provide infrastructure, or develop new crop varieties. The project uses a conceptual framework that views gender as central to assets, livelihoods, income, consumption, savings, and well-being in order to identify how building assets differs for men and women.
Gaap project conceptual framework presentation oct 13 2011
- 1. How project interventions can reduce the gender-asset gap INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE
- 2. The Gender and Agricultural Assets Project (GAAP) Objective: To reduce the gap between men’s and women’s control and ownership of assets, broadly defined, by evaluating how and how well agricultural development programs build women’s assets; Three-year project, supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (mid 2010-2012); Jointly lead by IFPRI and ILRI , including 8 core project collaborators working in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia; Mix of qualitative and quantitative (Q2) expertise and evaluation methodologies; Dreaming big and thinking ahead: Might be the start of a new paradigm in agricultural development programming!
- 3. Project Team Agnes Quisumbing(IFPRI) Jemimah Njuki (ILRI) Nancy Johnson(ILRI) Ruth Meinzen-Dick (IFPRI) Dee Rubin (Cultural Practice LLP) Amber Peterman (IFPRI) Elizabeth Waithanji (ILRI) Julia Behrman (IFPRI) Shalini Roy (IFPRI) Ginette Minot (IFPRI) More information at: http://genderassets.wordpress.com 3
- 4. 3 types of projects included in the portfolio 1. Projects that transfer (or facilitate acquisition of) individual assets: • Landesa (India—Land); • BRAC-Targeting the Ultra Poor (Bangladesh—Livestock); • Land O’ Lakes (Mozambique—Dairy cows); • KickStart (Tanzania and Kenya—micro-irrigation pumps). 2. Projects that build infrastructure and provide equipment to increase agricultural productivity and income: • CARE-Bangladesh (and its twin, EADD—training, group formation); 3. Projects that develop improved crop varieties and agricultural practices: • Cereal Systems in South Asia (India—rice); • Orange-fleshed Sweet Potato (Uganda—new variety); • Helen Keller International (Burkina Faso—vegetables).
- 5. Asset Transfer Projects: Common Themes Understanding cultural concepts of ownership (what does it mean to own or control an asset?); Identifying and understanding gender- specific barriers to asset acquisition and control; Measuring impact of asset transfers on men’s and women’s assets and the gender asset gap; Methods of increasing women’s ownership of /control over key assets over time (even if asset transferred to her, no guarantee she MoneyMaker! Treadle has control; if asset transfer is not targeted, pump in Kenya examining if there are gender biases in asset acquisition and how to overcome these).
- 6. Unpacking the “Gender Box” Photo credit: Agnes Quisumbing 6
- 7. Why have a conceptual framework? Helps identify HOW: • Gendered asset distribution affects outcomes • Outcome of agricultural programs differs by gender • Building assets takes place in a way that is gendered Guides attention to key processes for evaluation Provides basis for comparison and learning across different case studies
- 8. Each component is gendered Women’s JOINT Men’s Women and men have separate assets, activities, consumption, etc. Households also have some joint assets, activities, consumption, etc. Shading of each component as a reminder that we need to consider gender—separation and jointness in each
- 9. Context: Ecological, Social, Economic, Political factors, etc. Shocks Consumption Livelihood Assets Strategies Full Incomes Well-being Savings/ Investment Legend: Women Joint Men
- 10. ♀ Context ♂ Agroecology Location Institutions Markets Gender relations etc.
- 11. ♀ Assets ♂ •Natural •Physical •Financial •Human •Social •Political •Enable livelihoods •Resist shocks •Direct effect on well-being
- 12. ♀ Livelihood Strategies ♂ •What are the livelihood options available to women and men? •What assets do those livelihoods require? •Are women (or men) precluded from good livelihoods by lack of assets?
- 13. ♀ Shocks ♂ •What are the major shocks that affect women, men, and households? •How do women, men respond to shocks? •What role do assets play in responding to shocks?
- 14. ♀ Full Income♂ • Includes cash and direct consumption • What affects the income women and men earn? • What affects the control of income within the household?
- 15. ♀ Consumption ♂ • Includes food and nonfood • How are women’s, men’s, and joint income used for different types of consumption by different family members? • What affects decisions on consumption? (Does control of assets play a role?)
- 16. ♀ Savings/Investment ♂ • This feeds back to + or – asset accumulation •How are women’s, men’s, and joint income used for different types of investment by different family members? • What affects decisions on investment? • Are there enough mechanisms for women to build assets?
- 17. ♀ Well-Being ♂ •Health •Nutritional status •Time use •Stress •Empowerment •etc.
- 18. Context: Ecological, Social, Economic, Political factors, etc. Shocks Consumption Livelihood Assets Strategies Full Incomes Well-being Savings/ Investment Legend: Women Joint Men