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Gender equitable development and youth employment cluster kickoff meeting

Date: 26-27 May 2017 Venue: Amsterdam A4 Schipol Hotel

RTB Workshop Report

Published by the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB)

Correct citation: Mudege, N.N., Bullock R., & Rietveld A. 2017. Gender equitable employment and youth kick off cluster meeting. CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB). RTB Workshop Report. Available online at: www.rtb.cgiar.org

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Table of Contents Table of Contents .......................................................................................................................................... ii

Acknowledgment ......................................................................................................................................... iii

Gender equitable development and youth employment cluster kickoff meeting ....................................... 1

Background: .................................................................................................................................................. 1

Objectives: .................................................................................................................................................... 2

Expected Outputs.......................................................................................................................................... 2

Agenda .......................................................................................................................................................... 3

Meeting minutes ........................................................................................................................................... 5

Youth reflections (Day one) .......................................................................................................................... 5

Suggested research questions .................................................................................................................... 12

Way forward on youth work ....................................................................................................................... 12

Gender Reflections (Day two) ..................................................................................................................... 13

Action Points and conclusions .................................................................................................................... 17

Participants: ................................................................................................................................................ 18

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Acknowledgment We would like to thank Jim Sumberg from the Institute of Develeopment Studies, Sussex Brighton (IDS) for offering his services and expertise to help us think through youth issues in agriculture in general and roots, tuber crops in particular.

This meeting was held as part of, and funded by, the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) and supported by CGIAR Fund Donors.

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Gender equitable development and youth employment cluster kickoff meeting

Place: Amsterdam A4 Schipol Hotel

Date: 26-27 May 2017

Background: In many developing countries women and poor smallholder farmers are often the main producers, processors and beneficiaries of most RTB crops, however their needs are often not considered in research. Neglecting gender, youth and ethnic minorities in A4RD may lead to negative social externalities and reinforce existing unequal power relations, which further worsens their position. Engaging youth in agriculture and economic development is paramount to ensure future food supply, economic prosperity and political stability in target countries. Agriculture related gender responsive and transformative research, youth programs and youth oriented research can provide opportunities to address challenges related to the feminization of agricultural labor in addition to empowering women, men and youth farmers through building skills and capacity to create and benefit from opportunities in the agricultural sector. A systematic gender and youth analysis of key production constraints and opportunities and value chains vis-à-vis RTB crops is key to highlight priority activities in target countries to ensure that men, women and youth benefit from A4RD.

To address the above mentioned opportunities and constraints, CGIAR Research Program on Roots Tubers and Bananas (RTB) funded the CC5.3 cluster on Gender equitable development and youth employment. The activities in this cluster will focus on 4 key issues of strategic importance to RTB:

1. Developing a vision for the cluster and develop a resource mobilization strategy for the gender and youth work in RTB

2. Capacity building on youth research and interventions in order to strengthen RTBs ability to respond to and integrate youth issues into A4RD

3. Developing tools and manuals for integration of gender into RTB value chains work to ensure that men and women are able to take part in and benefit from diversified

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enterprise and income generating opportunities. This will be particularly relevant to clusters in FP4.

4. Metaanalysis of data from both strategic and gender and youth responsive research to develop guidelines and policy briefs providing guidance for integrating gender into a variety of issues of strategic importance to flagship1 to flagship 5

As part of its mandate the Cluster team 2 day workshop in Amsterdam to address gender and youth issues relevant to the cluster as well as to RTB. Meeting participants were from among multidisciplinary team members of the CC5.3 cluster.

Objectives: The workshop had the following key objectives:

1. Reflecting on youth issues to understand current policy issues and research challenges in youth and agriculture in order to develop a relevant youth strategy for RTB.

2. Reflecting on gender component of CC5.3 and developing building blocks for the gender strategy for RTB

3. Defining the scope of youth and gender work in the cluster for the period 2017-2020

Expected Outputs The first day of the workshop was dedicated to reflecting on youth issues n capacity building on youth issues and sharing results of the youth analysis, while two days will be spent focusing on elaboration of the cluster and building blocks for the gender and youth strategy for RTB (5.3.1.1).

Expected outputs of the workshop were derived mainly from the deliverables listed in Table 1:

1. Elaboration of cluster deliverables and agreement by team on the direction that the cluster is moving

2. Agreement and plan on the next step to developing the youth strategy and action plan for RTB 3. A common understanding of issues affecting youth in agriculture (including theories and

methods) by the team 4. Gender relevance of cluster products, deliverables and linkages are enhanced through gender

integration and mainstreaming 5. Cluster management, governance and coordination and workplan are agreed upon 6. Workplan revised on the MEL to integrate youth specific deliverables for 2018 onwards

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Table 1: The outputs to which the meeting contributed

Output code + Title Target countries Scientist (Center) responsible

Expected delivery date

5.3.1.1 Gender strategy and operationalisation and

implementation plan developed and implemented 2018

Global Bhawana Upadhyay (CIAT)

2017

5.3.1.3 Strategy for improving youth's access to productive

resources and decision making processes at household

community, farm and landscape level developed and shared with

next users

Renee bullock (IITA) 2017

Agenda Table 2: Agenda

Time Topic Resp.

DAY 1: Youth Reflections day 26 May 2017

8:30-900 Introductions and purpose of meeting Netsayi Mudege

9:00-12:00 Framing of youth issues • Framing – is this about agriculture, about youth, or about

something else? • Youth as an analytical category • It is critical to see youth in context (i.e. of family,

household, community, processes of rural change and transformation…)

Jim Sumberg

10:30-10:45 TEA/COFFEE BREAK

10:45-12:00 Framing of youth issues (Continued) Jim Sumberg

12:00-13:00 Youth in agriculture research and development • What is “youth specific” in the story of agricultural / rural

transformation?

Jim Sumberg

13:00-14:00 Lunch

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Time Topic Resp.

14:00-15:00 Jim Sumberg

15:00-16:00 Approaches to youth issues • The dangers of instrumentalist approaches • The dangers of essentialist approaches

Jim Sumberg

16:00-17:30 Potential Research questions for RTB? Does RTB need a youth strategy

DAY 2: Gender Reflections day 27 May 2017

8:30-8:20 Recap & discussion Netsayi

9:20- 9:40 FP5 Presentation Marc

9:40-10:00 Cluster CC5.3 Big picture presentation Netsayi

10:00-10:45 Strategies and options for agricultural innovations targeting gender transformation and women empowerment

Netsayi

10:45-11:00 TEA/COFEE BREAK

11:00-12:00 Framework to learn, link and leverage resources to increase youth employment and agri-preneurship

Renee

12:00-13:00 Gender and youth capacity development materials & strategies Anne

13:00-14:00 LUNCH

14:00-15:00 Mission and vision of cluster

Collaboration principles agreed upon Maintaining visibility of cluster and products Team building How to improve team work?

Marc Schut

15:00-16:00 Work plan and timing and way forward Netsayi

16:00 END OF MEETING + TEA

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Meeting minutes

Youth reflections (Day one) On the first day, Jim Sumberg, from the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, Brighton, accompanied and guided the team in its reflection and understanding of current issues on youth in agriculture, including existing theories and methodologies. “Young adults have multiple identities – daughter/son, students, farmer, laborer, migrant, spouse, parents – we need to avoid simplistic labels and illusions of linearity, as youth is a dynamic and not a homogenous category,” he said.

The team began by discussing the cluster’s approach to youth in agriculture, and the entry point for the youth strategy to be developed. Reflections about the myriad issues affecting youth, and understanding what has already been studied and done is crucial to define the gaps and formulate the new strategy and research agenda. During the discussion a key issue raised was the need to make assumptions about young people and their needs which are in many cases based on stereotypes of young men and women. There is need in RTB to conduct research on young people’s participation in agriculture and in roots tubers and banana crops to ensure evidence based and relevant interventions.

Below is a link to the powerpoint presentantion as well as a paper that workshop participants were asked to read before the meeting.

• Jim Sumberg RTB day on youth Friday 26 May, Amsterdam (PPT) https://drive.google.com/a/cgxchange.org/file/d/0B7ARsFI1H_v9VTJwOWRLQjBuOFk/view?usp=sharing

• Santiago Ripoll, Jens Andersson, Lone Badstue, Marion Büttner, Jordan Chamberlin, Olaf Erenstein and James Sumberg (2017) Rural transformation, cereals and youth in Africa: What role for international agricultural research? Outlook on Agriculture 1–10 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0030727017724669

Why youth research is important

One participant summed up why it was important to focus on youth issues in RTB as follows: “A central problem is how young people currently engage in agriculture and how we can keep them engaged and help them build solid livelihoods strategies. We need to understand the needs of young people and men and women in a constantly changing rural environment.”

For example the rural landscape is being transformed through the introduction of technologies and ICTs; climate change is also affecting rural livelihoods and households have to change to be able to adapt. Young people are receiving more education which has also led to changes in their

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aspirations. A youth responsive agriculture research approach needs to incorporate and address these transformations if agriculture is to become a viable livelihood option for young people

During the meeting the team also refered to some of the findings from the GENNOVATE study, a global comparative research initiative which addresses the question of how gender norms and agency influence men, women and youth to adopt innovation in agriculture and natural resource management. Initial findings include that young people are not interested to stay in agriculture and parents aspire for their children to have occupations outside of agriculture as it is perceived to be a ‘dirty job’, involve hard manual labor and not a sustain livelihood. Young people often view agriculture as an option when other options have failed. From this perspective, RTB just like other CGIAR Research Programs and centers need to understand the opportunities and potential impact on the involvement of young people in agriculture.

Framing the issues

A key issues identified at the workshop is related to the framing on the youth problem in the Roots Tubers and Bananas program. Framing is key since the way a problem is framed will drive the analysis and approach that RTB will take on youth research and interventions.

There was some debate on which approach to adopt for youth research and work in RTB. The first option was to frame the problem as the problem of ageing agricultural populations and the need to involve young people in agriculture to ensure continuity in agriculture. The second option was to start with the youth themselves. This approach suggests the following:

• It is not a story about agriculture but about young people and their aspirations • How can young people live the way they want to and engage in the type of livelihoods

that they want? • What is the role of agriculture in all this

After a long deliberation of the issue, participants acknowledged the tension in the CGIAR in that CGIAR organisations are agriculture centric. Therefore participants agreed that youth in agriculture should be the departure point of any work on young people within RTB.

The problem is about how young people can be engaged in agriculture in meaningful and empowering ways.

• Ageing farmers is a worrying problem especially since many young people are not interested in agriculture or lack opportunities to engaged.

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• How can we ensure that young people who are interested in agriculture find their space and are able to make a living off it?

• We need to understand young people, young men and women’s aspirations. If we understand what young men and women are thinking it help us to address their needs. Agriculture is not stable and changing all the time and can be reformed in a way that it addresses the needs of young people.

• There need to understand opportunities and remove constraints related to involvement of young people.

• How can RTB contribute to contribute to an agriculture sector in which they are prospects for everybody including young men and women?

How we understand and define the problem also determines the types of approaches we may take as well as the research we will conduct. How can the issue of ageing agriculture populations in countries where this is a problem be addressed:

• Stemming the tide of migration by young people? • Mechanization • Technological and sociological solutions

o Transfer of resources, e.g. across sectors, markets, policy o Change in how things are done, consumed o Mindsets and psychology o Norms values and mindsets

• In development studies, the focus is on economic change o Subsistence farming versus commercialization o Transforming the structure of the economy o Industry and services sector cannot absorb people, what are the options in

agricultural entrepeneurship

Youth as an analytical category

The definition of youth as often been used as a political category which Jim Sumberg noted is often not often not very useful to use as an analytical category. As a result RTB needs to have agreed upon definitions that can be used more broadly across RTB. The following options and their pros and cons were noted:

• Some regard youth as a period of transition. However regarding it simply as a period of transition may devalue the experience of young people since this is regarded as a temporary phase

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• Others regard young adults as having multiple identidities thus we need to guard against simplistic labels and illusions of linearity. For example a young person can be a daughter/son, student, farmer, labourer, migrant, spouse, parent.

• Youths are not a homogeneous group and other social factors apart from age can play an (more) important role in determining their options. These other social factors are for instance sex, ethnicity and wealth status family. For example, two 16 year olds, one married in an independent household and one in school and depending on parents, are not in the same social postion and may have different wants and needs. Thus using chronological age to define young people can be challenging since it ignores the intersecting identities of young people.

What are possible research avenues

To define a vision and mission for RTB youth work, the team will conduct research to understand and define the drivers and opportunities for the involvement of young men and women in the rural economy. Young people are embedded in social relations that are also characterized by power hierarchies and these can shape their opportunities.The following approaches were suggested:

• A narrow approach that focuses research on young adults without focusing on adults and children. However this approach was quickly dropped because it does not focus on social relations. Young people are not an independent socio-economic category but are related to others in their community (e.g. older people and children). These people have demands and expectations from and for the young people.

• A second approach is to focus on young people as a period of transition from childhood to adulthood. While transition is more expansive than just looking at young people, the approach also neglects the social embeddedness of young people.

• The team decided to settle for a third approach that looks at young people from the perspective of transitions but also look at relationships. The team felt that if we just focus on the young person only we may miss the entire story. Young people are embedded in social networks. These networks have important implications for young people’s engagement in economic activities including agriculture. We need to understand for example:

o Who else is making demands on young people o What the parents and other people within young people’s networks are also able to

offer in terms of endowments about character and values o The broader social context in relation to young people. This needs to be

understood within the broader story of change which includes but is not limited

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to: changing educational levels and aspirations, technological change, technological change, policy change, environmental change, changing social structures)

Gender analysis of youth issues is also important since male and female young persons may have similar or different opportunities and constraints and these need to be understood. For example, as young men transition into adulthood they may have more access to resources and decision making powers that young women going through the same transition may not have.

RTB also need to conduct a literature review on youth to identify

o What is it that we want to do? o What is the unit of analysis? o Where are we going to generate new knowledge and play with new concepts

and theory o What are the ethical challenges, methodological challenges o Need to build up on the literature

Concepts Theory and methodology

Inorder to achieve this RTB will need to invest and gaining some competence. Learning and capacity building should be a key component of the youth program.

The role of rural transformation

Young people are a part of the story of structural transformation. They are part of the potential demographic dividend. However the challenge for Africa is that industry and the formal sector is not large enough to employ/ absorb the large number of young people who are entering the job market. The rural landscape is also changing both interms of the physical and opportunity space. Data from eastern and southern Africa shoes that farm sizes are increasingly growing smaller. What does this mean for young people? What are the implications for ther ability to make a living from agriculture.

As part of the story of rural transformation, it is important to rethink the idea of how young people engage in agric in the rural economy. Are they engaging as labourers, workers, (e.g. working in a packing factory), working in production etc as farm owners or workers etc). We need to understand how opportunities for engagement in agriculture arise through processes of rural transformation. How are changing rural dynamics setting the stage for young people and what the barriers to entry.

The rural context is not constant. It changes in relation to structural context. For example is is a location with high farm fragmentation or consolidation. Is it affected by climate change or not?

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What activities are going on in the rural economy. How do young people engage and how do they navigate the system inorder to make a living. The role of research in understanding how structural change is affecting groups of people. In this case we will need to understand what the drivers for youth involvement in agriculture are. What are the commonalities in the different contexts. It is not only about agriculture but about living good lives. The issue of social navigation may be important to understand how young people move in and out of occupations including agriculture:

• How young people navigate their way into the rural economy? Who can do that successfully?

• What is the pathway. Who is able to take advantage of opportunities in agriculture • Who ends up in a good position or worse off. This may need a micro level work history

approach • Who are the young people who stay in rural areas how do they engage and manouvre?

We need to consider rural transformation as an important story. As things change, the nature of of places change including the available opportunities. What are the implications of these changes on RTB’s mandate interms of how young people can engaged. For example, with limited resources RTB needs to be careful how it uses its resources. For example, there may be need to focus in areas which are closer to markets since these places will also provide opportunities for young people. Below is a recommended reading:

• Steve Wiggins, & Sharon Proctor (2001) How Special Are Rural Areas? The Economic Implications of Location for Rural Development. Development Policy ReviewVolume 19, Issue 4, DOI:10.1111/1467-7679.00142. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-7679.00142/pdf

Jim Sumberg also introduced the concepts of commercialization hot spots and cold spots. Commercialisation hot spots are those were there are opportunities to create job opportunities due to nearness to markets. The remote country side which in many circumstances is closer to a commercial hotspot is usually anto commodity development. Figure 1 and 2 illustrates how young people may negotiate in commercial cold spots and commercial hot spots

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Figure 1: Commercial cold spot

Figure 2: Commercial hot spot

It is important to understand how youth negotiate rural environments on both the hotspots and cold spots. Without understanding the problem, one may go with a youth specific intervention when the issue is inface structural affecting everyone. If everyone is experiencing it it may be more of a structural issue than a youth specific issue so youth specific interventions may not resolve the problem. Research can focus on:

• Navigation…how people find their way, work around barriers etc o Communication narratives touch on people’s recollection and their knowledge

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o Life histories narratives of young people ….to understand how they are able to navigate

o Place is important and social development is important • Do RTB related activities in commercialization hotspots look similar or different to

activities that RTB may engage in for youth in commercialization cold spots • When looking at youth navigation…also understand how other people are navigating

However significant gains may be made in terms of youth involvement in the hotspots compared to cold spots.

SUGGESTED RESEARCH QUESTIONS The suggested research areas are tentative and will be finalized after the framing paper is finalized. Strategic youth research

• How do young people currently engage? What explains current patterns of engagement and how they do that in future?

• What explains why others want to leave and others want to stay. Do we want to focus on those who leave or stay? Who are these people

• What are the drivers for youth involvement in agriculture? What commonalities in the different contexts.

Questions related to key approaches and methods

• What questions do we have and what are the methods that are suitable? • How young people navigate their way into the rural economy? Who can do that

successfully? What is the pathway. Who is able to take advantage. Who ends up in a good position or worse off. (micro level work histories/life stories)

Focusing on structural issues and rural transformation. • Understanding how norms aspirations impact young people’s engagement

WAY FORWARD ON YOUTH WORK At the end of day 1 the team team reflected on the way forward for the youth work in RTB. Cluster researchers will develop a framing paper for youth research and approaches in RTB. This framing paper will consist of a literature on youth, define broader conceptual frameworks and approaches as well as try to identify broad research questions for RTB to engage with. The paper will provide a critical building block for the development of an RTB youth strategy which will outline how to engage with youth (young men and women) in a meaningful way. The following was agreed:

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1. Instead of focusing on a youth strategy, the team agreed to first of all write a framing paper for RTB. This framing paper will be based in a review of literature inorder to identify a niche for RTB as well as the gaps that the RTB program can address. The framing paper will seek to address the following issues:

a. How RTB can engage young men and women in a meaningful way b. Setting the agenda for youth research in RTB by identifying broad research areas

and research questions. Will identify relevant areas of research and questions that RTB reseachers involved in youth work should ask and answer.

c. Discuss why we need a youth strategy d. Provide a definition of youth/young people to be used by RTB e. Also review research approaches that are available to understand youth issues

and well as develop some guidelines for approaches to understand young people in RTB

f. What frameworks and concepts are we going to use for research 2. Conduct an inventory of youth strategies of donors

As part of the wayforward, Jim Sumberg provided a link to the IDS library where we could have easy access to youth literature accumulated by IDS over the years. However the team will also consult other databases and libraries inorder to

Gender Reflections (Day two) Day 2 started with a recap of day 1. The recap was a main summary of key resecrh and conceptual issues on young people engagement in agriculture. https://drive.google.com/a/cgxchange.org/file/d/0B7ARsFI1H_v9QjBYX1cwMGdjeXM/view?usp=sharing Marc presented the big picture for FP5 illustrating the linkages between all the clusters in FP5 and how these contribute to other FPs. https://drive.google.com/a/cgxchange.org/file/d/0B7ARsFI1H_v9bTREZVBqVnktcVk/view?usp=sharing

Netsayi presented on the CC 5.3 outlining its focus, objectives and work done so far inorder to bring all participants up to date as well as initiate new team members to the cluster. https://drive.google.com/a/cgxchange.org/file/d/0B7ARsFI1H_v9SEhzLWczVkkxeTA/view?usp=sharing

Strategies and options for agricultural innovations targeting gender transformation and women empowerment

Netsayi presented updates of work done under this linked product. The linked product has the following three outputs:

1. Gender strategy

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2. Gennovate: We are responsible for the RTB report. The report has been drafted (led by Gordon and submitted to Graham for comments). The report uses casestudies from both RTB and humid tropics.

a. We need to make this work visible by organizing a seminar to present the finding. Gordon can lead this. We will also write several blogs or a newsletter about this work.

3. Journal papers

The discussion was around gennovate. Team members wanted clarification on what happens after the gennovate project since it formulates the bullk of the work under this linked product. The following were identified as activities that can be pursued:

• If we want to work on women empowerment and gender transformation, we need to be clear on what exactly. We need to build on the results from gennovate and create pathways on how to work on women empowerment.

• We need to use result from GENNOVATE to help in the development of a gender responsive M&E system particularly in developing indicators for women’s empowerment and gender transformation. This will be done in collaboration with other FP5 clusters

• Use results from RTB to develop a theory of change on women empowerment and gender transformation.

o Around women’s empowerment (degrees of harmony within intra-household relations. Validate that theory of change

o What tools can we use to improve that harmony • Focus should also be on developing RTB specific tools and approached from genovate

lessons to help projects be more gender responsive. These tools can be tested and validated in CC5.3

o How are they going to be scaled? If tool can be scaled independently out without involvement of gender team can be used independently how will issues of quality be addressed.

• This is a great opportunity to identify few cases or potential interventions from gennovate to work on constraints and measure changes in women empowerment.

• Need to start drawing recommendations for RTB from gennovate • Use gennovate to design geography specific interventions

Framework to learn, link and leverage resources to increase youth employment and agri-preneurship

Renee presented updates of work done under this linked product. The deliverables under this linked product will be revised according to day 1’s discussion on youth. The following was agreed as key to address in this linked product:

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• Replace the delivery on youth strategy with youth framing paper • Identify a better title for the linked product • Understand youth constraints but we need to define what are our entry points are • Clarify the connection of youth with RTB flagship products. We can do it at different

domains (breeding, nutrition, value chains, etc.). Look at the broader questions and then at the specific questions for RTB and define the capacities.

• Collaborate with other CRPs to define research priorities for the youth component.

Action points and key responsible:

• Renee will be the focal point for this. o Framing paper developed and finalized by December o Renee will draft a first version of the protocol by June 15th. End of September

we will share a first draft of the framing paper. We can share what we have with Jim. Need to invite Graham as a co-

author o Include insights from the gennovate work.

• Donor intelligence: ask the RM team to put together information about how donor engage in youth. (All team members are responsible for this in their centers)

Gender and youth capacity development materials & strategies

Anne presented updates of work done under this linked product particularly in relation to GREAT training since this was a big capacity building initiative for RTB scientists.

There was debate regarding whether RTB should focus a lot of gender training.

• RTB research is gender responsive o Why should RTB train people? o Should not we target our resources and work with other partners (e.g.

RUFORUM, or Makerere University through their program so that they can train our staff on demand)

o Who are we targeting with the training Interaction and learn a lot from others It is unsustainable to keep training because we are not a training institute

although some training can take place in bilateral projects

• What capacity strengthening activities/principles/ideas o Should be integrated into the center…. GREAT can be used in an opportunistic

way

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o We are not a training institution/we can’t engage in curriculum development o GREAT can be rolled out at center level…an induction process for staff.

• Capacity strengthening plan for gender should include the following:

o Preparation of a plan for preparing gender researchers to be able to engage with bio-physical scientists.

o Induction process for center staff could have a gender component

• Training needs assessments o We need to develop a training needs assessment o Instead of all the training being hosted in CC5.3 we may link with other clusters

How to embed training components (DI1.1, CC2.1, CC3.1) o Use of bilateral funds o Development of tools and scaling them up. o What type of capacity building will we need? o Halle has a budget for a workshop in 2018 (GREAT) so we may need to sell this

training to staff with bilateral funds to enroll and get training

In line with agreements Anne Rietvels will develop a plan including time commitments for RTB staff engagement in GREAT. What are the cost savings of institutionalizing a GREAT like training within RTB.

Publications

We also discussed the lack of publications in the team. It was not clear whether this was caused by lack of time or skill. However, the team resolved to learn together, publish toether. Marc offered to help and support those interested in publishing and needed someone to review their work. Team members can also share publication plands and look for possibilities to co-author.

With regard to communicating to wider audiences, the team resolved to allocate a member to write a blog each month. The blogs would focus on gender and youth particularly on issues relevant to cluster CC5.3.

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Action Points and conclusions Action Timeline Responsible

Developing a youth framing paper • Developing the literature review protocol • Creating a drop box folder in which papers can be

uploaded • Team members populate the drop box and analyse the

literature • Team members will provide some sections however Renee

will be responsible for putting evertything together

August 2017-October 2017 (first draft will be ready for circulation

Renee Bullock (Lead) (Supported by Netsayi Mudege, Anne Rietveld and Nozomi Kawarazuka)

Presentation of GENNOVATE results at high level within RTB December 2017

Gordon Prain (Lead Author)

Developing a one page concept for capacity building December 2017

Anne Rietveld (Lead)

Capacity needs assessment for RTB February 2018 Netsayi (lead) Communication blogs (7 blogs in total) June 2017

July 2017 Aug 2017 Sept 2017 October 2017 Nov 2017 Dece 2017

Netsayi/Claudia Renee Bela Claudia Anne Rietveld Lilian Nkengla Netsayi

Updating the MEL system June 2017 Netsayi & Claudio Finalisation of youth program on MEL Dec 2017 Netsayi (lead)

Supported by Renee Bullock and Anne Rietveld)

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Participants: Name Surname Institution Netsay Noris Mudege CIP Renee Bullock IITA Anne Rietveld Bioversity Nozomi Kawarazuka CIP Gordon Prain CIP-Consultant Sumberg Sumberg IDS, Brighton Lilian Nkengla IITA Claudio Proietti RTB Kwame Ogero CIP Claudia Babini CIP Béla Teeken IITA Vongai Kandiwa CIMMYT Esther Mungai-Njuguna ICRISAT Jummai Yila ICRISAT