Was and ds ds crp gender implementation workshop
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1) The document summarizes a gender implementation workshop for the West African Sahel & Dryland Savanna Flagship. It discusses strategies for mainstreaming gender considerations into the flagship's research activities. 2) Key strategies include collecting sex-disaggregated data, developing gender-focused intensification options, and testing gender-smart harvest and post-harvest technologies. At least 30% of research should address direct gender questions, and 100% should measure gender impacts. 3) Capacity building activities aim to increase women's participation in leadership and knowledge sharing, including in innovation platforms and rural resource centers. A baseline household survey in four countries gathered data on gender roles in agricultural decision making.
Was and ds ds crp gender implementation workshop
- 1. Drylands Systems CRP Gender Implementation Workshop West African Sahel & Dryland Savanna Flagship Amman, 26-27 May 2014 Djalal Ademonla Arinloye Pierre S. Traore Joachim Binam Catherine Dembele Antoine Kalinganire 5/27/2014
- 2. Gender mainstreaming • Mainstreaming refers to the systematic integration of gender equity issues into the WAS&DS research process: priority setting, planning, design, implementation, M&E and into the management of this process To ensure that poor women have enhanced access to the results of agricultural science and technology (e.g. WAS&DS research outputs), and that these results effectively contribute to increased gender equality in access to and control over productive assets, inputs and benefits
- 3. Gender in value chains Distributed Benefits Resources Added value Governance (Quality control, low transaction costs) Financial support services Infrastructure Research Extension Inter ( national) policies and regulations Capacity building & Empowerment of stakeholders Input supply Production Processing International consumption Marketing and trade Consumption Export Effectiveness: Quality (Consumer demand) Targets (yield, benficiaries) Markets access Efficiency: Profitability Low ransport cost Impact: Food security Incomes Gender / Equity Added value distribution Sustainability Partnerships PPP Nat. Res.Conserv. Biodiversity Direct Chain Actors Performance indicators Indirect chain Actors Gender issue cutting across all components of VC
- 4. WAS Flagship Activities: gender mainstreaming strategies WAS &DS Current Activity Clusters New Activity Cluster Name in WAS CRP DS Agricultural Livelihood Systems (ALS) Ongoing gender mainstreaming strategies 1 Review past work on dryland systems and draw lessons on successes, failures and gaps; and evaluate vulnerability and risk management strategies in the action sites Monitoring and Evaluation: Review past work on dryland systems, coordinate and harmonize database management -Agro-pastoral systems -Intensive rain-fed systems -Tree-based systems -Traditional subsistence system - Collecting/analyzing sex- and age- disaggregated data by farming system, age, socioeconomic class, ethnic and religious group in survyes, value chain analysis, biodiversity assessment, vulnerability and risk assessment - Gender-focused intensification options e.g. small ruminant fattening (Ramadan) to increase income generation by women to improve household food security 2 Coordinate and harmonize database management and research methods 6 Establish reference situation/ Baseline for the action sites to support systems approaches 9 Assess and monitor biomass and resource flow in the action sites
- 5. WAS &DS Current Activity Clusters New Activity Cluster Name in WAS CRP DS Agricultural Livelihood Systems (ALS) Ongoing gender mainstreaming strategies 3 Develop and test value adding strategies for post- harvest management, processing and use of agricultural produce and by-products including forest product Idem -Traditional subsistence system -Agro-pastoral systems -Tree-based systems -Intensive rain-fed systems - Developing and testing gender-smart harvest and postharvest technologies, human nutrition, crop residue management, post-harvest management and processing of forest and crop products, and grain storage 4 Promote local and regional knowledge generation and exchange for scaling up and out of promising intensification options and strategies idem -Traditional subsistence system -Tree-based systems -Agro-pastoral systems -Intensive rain-fed systems - Gender balanced site selection, communication and dissemination of promising intensification options and strategies, and training of trainers in intensification options and strategies WAS Flagship Activities: gender mainstreaming strategies
- 6. WAS &DS Current Activity Clusters New Activity Cluster Name in WAS CRP DS Agricultural Livelihood Systems (ALS) Ongoing gender mainstreaming strategies 5 Induce intensification and improve resource use efficiency through on-farm testing and evaluation of technologies idem - Agro-pastoral systems - Intensive rain-fed systems - Traditional subsistence system - Agro-pastoral systems -Testing and evaluating of gender-smart best fit options for improved livelihood, and water management High-value market garden and fruit-tree production; improved quality and quantity of crop residue for livestock feeding and quality manure generation for women and other vulnerable groups 7 Quantify resource use and associated tradeoffs to optimize community-level decision making to promote SI and vulnerability reduction Effective resources management: Review, analyze, develop, test and disseminate community-based strategies for resource management and vulnerability reduction - Traditional subsistence system - Simulation models and foresight capacity developed considering gender representativeness to predict future systems evolution based on locally valid resources and flows, cultural issues, and strategic decision making capacity involving women and youth WAS Flagship Activities: gender mainstreaming strategies
- 7. WAS &DS Current Activity Clusters New Activity Cluster Name in WAS CRP DS Agricultural Livelihood Systems (ALS) Ongoing gender mainstreaming strategies 8 Facilitate effective linkages and knowledge exchange among different actors for improved system productivity and better market access idem -Agro-pastoral systems -Intensive rain-fed systems -Gender disaggregated value chain analysis - Women participation to Farmers' field school, field diversity forum, Rural Resource Centre - Ensure inclusiveness (poor and landless farmers, women, youth); Engaging and empowering women, youth and disadvantaged groups WAS Flagship Activities: gender mainstreaming strategies
- 8. Strategic gender research • Gender specific research – Addresses direct questions related to differential intervention results between men and women and marginalized groups • e.g. How does household adoption of a new technology change women and men’s time use patterns, and income accrual? – Expectation is that at least 30% of research being gender specific • Gender sensitive research – Addresses indirect question such as : • e.g What are the (ex-ante & ex-post) impacts of adoption of a new crop variety? where data collection is such that results can be reported for male and female plot managers? – Target of 100% of all research that measures impact on farmers
- 9. Strategic gender research • Gender is fully integrated into priority setting, research design and implementation, and final evaluations such that interventions do no harm or worsen existing gender inequities and also empower women • Topic addressing quality standards for quantitative sex-disaggregated data collection and qualitative sex- disaggregated data collection (scoping studies)
- 10. Capacity development : Knowledge-sharing Undertake shared research design, sites, data collection methods and analysis, expanding the cross countries/transects scope and relevance of gender research to: • Equitable access to improved technologies for women and men • Development and testing of transformative gender approaches • Methods for gender analysis in value chains Capacity building on leadership: minimum request of 3/10 participants been women per village target 5/10 by 2016 Strategic gender research
- 11. • Fodder crops and trees in cereal based systems targeting men and women, young people, rich and poor • R4D platforms built from the existing networks of existing farmers’ rural enterprises, developers and policy makers • Rural Resource Centres (RRC) focusing on options for sustainable intensification and income generation for women, youth and other resource-poor farmers • Functional multi-stakeholders Innovation Platforms – Basis and indicators of success (Ghana, 2014) – Key partners selection taking into account gender representativeness – Definition of key activities within a system approach – Defining gender sensitive communication and data sharing strategies Current and past experiences in WAS&DS
- 12. 520 Households 6089 individuals: 1866 from 2 Mali sites 3448 from 4 Nigeria sites 336 from 2 Niger sites 439 from 2 Ghana sites + Focus group discussions
- 13. Baseline Household survey instrument with gender loop
- 14. Preliminary results : Marketing and management decision in the households: Does women voice count? 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 Taking decision on Nothing Staple crops selection and management Cash crops selection and management Staple crops marketing Management of small ruminants Management of large ruminants Marketing of small ruminants Management of water for agriculture Management of water for consumption Non-farm activities Household income allocationGhana Women (n=221) Men (n=212) 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 Taking decision on Nothing Cash crops selection and management Cash crops marketing Management of large ruminants Marketing of large ruminants Management of water for consumption Household income allocation Mali Women (n=877) Men (n=967) 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 Taking decision on Nothing Staple crops selection and management Staple crops marketing Cash crops marketing Management of small ruminants Management of large ruminants Marketing of small ruminants Management of water for consumption Non-farm activities Niger Women (n= 150) Men (n=156) 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 Taking decision on Nothing Staple crops selection and management Cash crops selection and management Staple crops marketing Management of small ruminants Management of large ruminants Marketing of small ruminants Non-farm activities Household income allocation Nigeria Women (n=1637) Men (n=1795)