Berhanu Biazin Tigist Endashaw Day 1 Sessions - Summary Gender and Value Chain Training for LIVES Project Team.

Berhanu BiazinTigist Endashaw

Day 1 Sessions - Summary

Gender and Value Chain Training for LIVES Project Team

Opening Remarks by Dr. Azage

Why we need this training: We need to Change our mind set

with respect to Gender in general and Agricultural value chains in particular

Gender is a crucial issue in the implementation of LIVES selected commodities and we have already committed ourselves to address this issue (CIDA)

ILRI as a member of the CGIAR consortium will need to be committed to address the Gender in all activities (research, development interventions etc.)

Self –Introductions & ExpectationsFrom self introductions and first impressions - The team is concluded to be hardworking, energetic and committed.

Summary of Expectations: • Improved knowledge on concepts of

gender• Gender and value chain Approach and

methodology• Gender analysis tool

Expected Outcome From the ObjectiveTo enable LIVES staff become well-equipped with Gender analysis tools and in turn mentor others to mainstream gender.

Introductions to Gender Concepts

There is no job that only man can do or only woman can do unless it is culturally, religiously, physically or biologically influenced.

Gender refers to those characteristic and roles of Men and Women that are socially constructed.

Gender equality – Integrating gender in the process for a fair treatment of men and women.

Approaches• Gender neutral • Gender aware or responsive • Gender transformative

Concept of Model FarmersRegional groups have presented their concept of Model Farmers pictorially.

Practical and Strategic Gender needs• Practical need is an immediate and actual

needs of life and can be fulfilled by providing inputs.

• Strategic needs are long term needs that can arise from women’s subordinate position and gender bias such as lack of resource and education. It requires social and political reforms.

• Regional groups have identified the practical and strategic needs in their respective regions.

Rational for Gender Mainstreaming in LIVES

• Millions of men and women depend on agriculture• Unavoidable Complementarity between women and

men• Disproportionate costs of women in their health and

wellbeing• Most nutrition related successes depend on the

level of gender empowerment in the households• Value addition of products of the market depends

on gender balanced decision making in the household

• Break the gender bias and strike the balance• A gender lens in commodity / enterprise

development

Gender in Value Chain Analysis Macro Level • Cultural Setting/Dynamics• Regulations and Legislations

Meso Level • Gender Sensitivity of specific Local Structures• Focuses on Institutions and Structures and their

delivery system

Micro Level • Identifies major Constraints faced by women at

the HH level

Integrating Gender in Agricultural Value Chains requires a step wise mapping and action process

Integrating Gender in Agricultural Value Chains

1. Mapping gender roles and relations along the VC

2. Moving from gender inequality to constraints

3. Assessing the consequences of the constraints

4. Taking action5. Measuring the outcome of the action

Introduction to Gender Analytical Tools

• Gender analysis focuses on understanding and documenting the difference in gender roles, activities, needs and opportunities in a given context

• Gender principles (planning, processes and diagnosis) • Analysis tools ( Analysis framework)

• Achieving excellence in qualitative research: Qualitative research is like water which takes the shape of the container. You shape our design based on the social context where you are working

• Focus group vs key informants interview

• Exercise

• St. Paul - put on the shoes of a professional – Put aside our beliefs and stereotypes Switch off our personal opinions and open our researchers minds…

•Desensitization ……(deep rooted cultural elements)•Think outside of the box. Use deductive reasoning.• Abraham Lincoln’s Quote “ A house divided in itself shall

not prosper” • See the bigger picture .. Look at the “cathedral” … Focus

on the final outcome not the Small inputs • Don’t stop at “Jack had two cows and they died”. Ask

why? How? …. •If you fail to plan you plan to fail.•If you are skilled person you can change grass into a weapon.• We have now developed a sixth sense – have become

Gender Sensitive • Activist? Catalyst? Or Apathetic? • There is a difference between doing something … and

doing something effectively!

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