Survey Gender in Value Chains Agri-Hub: Working Group Gender in Value Chains May 9, Addis Ababa Wikke Tuinhout
Dec 30, 2015
Survey Gender in Value ChainsAgri-Hub: Working Group Gender in Value Chains
May 9, Addis Ababa
Wikke Tuinhout
Survey
Objective of the survey:
To determine what do members of the Agri-Hub need on gender in value chains, with the objective to determine what the Working Group can/should do for the network regarding Gender in Value Chains
Survey:
Brief survey to determine the need for information or support on gender in value chains.
Response:
46 Persons from at least 35 organizations (not all respondents answered this question)
Result 1: organization
• Organisations respondents are representing:
Farmers organisation
Company
NGO/ Development Agency
University / Knowledge Institute
Consultancy / service prov.
Bank / MFI
Government
Result 2 – Working on Gender / Value Chain
• The organisations:
Works on Value Chains
Works on Gender
Integrate both areas
Result 3: Policy, Manuals and Tools
• Organisations that have a:
Strategy doc on gender
Strategy doc on
gender in VC
Manual on
gender
Manual on gender in
VC
Tools on gender in
VC
Result 3a: Policy, Manual and Tools
Used Tools include:
- Harvard framework
- Gender analysis tooling (different per organization)
- Tools by FAO
- Oxfam
- USAID
Other comments for this question include:
- Not sure which tools to apply
- We are working currently on a strategy document
- I am not fully aware of what is available
- In my understanding [our tool] is not enough
Result 4: Learn more about
• Respondents want to learn more about:
Theory Selection of Value Chain
Gender analysis
in VC
Costs and benefits
Gender sensitive planning
Gender sensitive
monitoring
Result 4a: Learn more about:
- How to develop a gender manual
- Challenges and opportunities focused on VC in respective of gender
- Gender role in food and nutritional security
- Theory of gender in value chains
- Profile of gender in value chain
- Manual document on geder
- Gender budgetting and auditing
Result 5: Practical experience
• Respondents want to improve their skills on:
How to convince
colleagues
How to use gender
manuals
How to mainstream in projects
How to apply indicators for
gender
Result 5a: Improve skills on
- How to learn about practical tools and techniques (theory is familiar)
- How to make gender issues the concern of all experts
- How to develop gender indicator
- How to give trainings with relation to gender
- How to identify strategic areas
- How to make gender beyond political consumption and bring real change
Result 6: Focus Working Group Agri-Hub
• The Working Group should::
Focus on knowledge and theory
Focus on skills and practice
Share online
documen-tation
Organize coaching
Organize quarterly meetings
Be a thinktank on gender
Give advice to network
Ave
rage
rat
ing
Result 6a: The Agri-hub should focus on
• Stakeholder coordination
• Conduct study(assignment) on overall gender condition
• Practical chaining
• Experience sharing
• Improve Agri-Hub
• Practical effort lacks, other than serving for fund raising – a real intervention should me made to improve the disparity on account of gender
• Interested in theory, skill and practice
Result 7: Key statements on Agri-Hub
• Play a catlytic role
• Agri-Hub should provide training advice and consultancy services to women
• Popularize the best way to engage women and youth farmers in different VCs
• Share guiding documents online
• Organize practical sessions
• Conduct different research studies on gaps of gender considerations
• Focus on practical steps to address gender problems
• Stress on how to empower women in economy and skill development
• Training, awareness and communication
Result 7: Key statements on Agri-Hub (2)
• Enhance gender mainstreaming, each member should develop policies and actual experience from implementing
• Develop a manual
• Provide organizations with knowledge, skills and tools
• Search best practices and experiences (documents and meetings)
• Agri-Hub must reach grass root level organisations
• Should share online documents
• Knowledge and skill transfer
• Creating a strong network across organisations who are working on gender in agricultural value chains
Conclusions
• A diversity of people and experiences
• A diversity of wishes, covering everything from training, via exchange of experiences to documentation and to becoming a thinktank
• Overall proposal: let us to built up the skills, knowledge and experience of the Working Group in these steps:
1. Training to create a common ground and discuss tools.
2. Participating organizations present their case and challenges.
3. Coaches discuss approach on each organisation.
4. Coaching of organisations/programs.
5. Experience sharing event(s).
6. Workshop for participants to present their results.
7. Coach(es) to make a publication in local language(s).
Information on support track
Objective / results:
• Increase basic level of understanding & knowledge of available tools by training
• Improve actual cases (at different organisations) by coaching
• Improve the tools by using them on cases
• Share all the lessons learned by making an (Amharic) practical publication
Ongoing developments
• Agri-ProFocus is developing a wider support program for Gender in Value Chains
• Also including international experience sharing in the long run
Funding:
• Funding for international coach in this program is available
• Looking for coaches / trainers – SNV will contribute
• Other funding will be needed
Who will join?
• Are you (your organisation) interested in joining this track?
• Do you know organisations who might want to join?
• Can you contribute to the program?
• What
Discussion about:
3 Groups:
• Challenges to realize support track
• Guidelines for final publication (result of support track)
• Terms of Reference WG and other initiatives of WG