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MECIS ECONOMIC JUSTICE COMMUNITY OF
PRACTICE LEARNING WORKSHOP
WELCOME
MARCH 17-20, 2014
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PLEASE SIT AT TABLES AS SHOWN
U. Alik – ESDC: _________– Fatima Irshaid – Mohamad S - Peter L –– Saida
V. Agapi – Chogi – Matteo – Mustafa Ismael – Nickie – PARC: _________ - Shekhar
W. Ahmed Sourani - Benoit – Dilorom – PalTrade: _________ - Rita – Roxanne
X. Alaa – BWF: Dua - Levan – Maxime – Safarmo – Thomas
Y. FTDC: _________ - Ibrahim Shaat – Jonathan – Mahinakhon – Nino – QUODEV: __________
Z. ARIJ: __________ - Beesyna – Ghazi – Ramila – Wael - Wassem
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WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES
1. To promote peer to peer learning across the region
2. To develop a strong Economic Justice Community of Practice and support structure in the region
3. To enhance the ability of Oxfam and partner organisations to gain greater impact through a systems approach
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AGENDA
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY
SHARING EXPERIENCE WITHIN THEMES
FIELD VISITS INTEGRATION & NEXT STEPS
Introduction 2 themes Field visits Integration
2 themes 2 themes Field visits Next steps
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TUESDAY AGENDA: MORNING
9.00 Review Monday
9.20 Influence• Introduction• Georgia case study and clarifications• Gaza Strip case study and clarifications• Groups: systems questions• Plenary
10.40 Coffee/Tea
10.55 Gender
12.00 Minister(s): official speaker(s)
12.30 Lunch
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TUESDAY AGENDA: AFTERNOON
13.30Enterprise Development
Case studies: West Bank and Azerbaijan
14.50 Coffee/Tea
15.05 Resilience Building
Case studies: Armenia (2) and Oxfam Italy
16.45 Market Place: help sought and offered
16.50 Review day
16.55 Plans for field visits
17.00 Close
19.00 Dinner
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TUESDAY GROUP WORK
Thinking of the case studies you have just heard, please agree a key question to ask of the presenters of any one or all case studies.
Please seek a deep question guided by the 4 systems questions ABCD. Your question does not have to be ABCD.
Please also agree a back-up question – in case another group asks your main question first!
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GROUPS FOR TUESDAY
BISCUITS: Alaa – Alik – Beesyna – BWF: Dua – Ibrahim Shaat – Roxanne – Safarmo – Saida – Wael
COFFEE: ARIJ: __________ – Benoit – Chogi – Jonathan – Levan – Mohamad S -–Mustafa Ismael – Nickie – Ramila – Wassem
SIDEROOM: Ahmed Sourani – Dilorom – Fatima Irshaid – FTDC: _________ – Ghazi – Matteo – PalTrade: _________ – Peter L – Rita – Thomas
LIFTS: Agapi – ESDC: _________ – Mahinakhon –Maxime – Nino – PARC: _________ – QUODEV: __________ –Shekhar
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EXPECTATIONS: GENERAL
• To learn what others have done• To learn from colleagues about what worked
and what did not work, especially in oPt• To exchange ideas, learning from each other• To reflect on our own initiatives from
different perspectives• To understand systems thinking and
leveraging – and how they affect theories of change
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EXPECTATIONS: SPECIFIC TOPICS
• Challenges faced by others launching Gendered Enterprise & Markets (GEM) projects
• Innovative agricultural service delivery models
• Programme implementation by partners• Monitoring & finance management, donor
requirements• Motivation for farmers’ cooperation• Implementing gender mainstreaming
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DESIGN OF WORKSHOP
Balance between sharing on specific details…
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DESIGN OF WORKSHOP
… and digging into depth through systems thinking
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DESIGN OF WORKSHOP
Specific details AND conceptual thinkingbreadth AND depth
– especially in field visits
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SYSTEMS THINKING:WHAT IS A SYSTEM?
• Multiple actors and relationships between them
• Both formal and informal structures and behaviours
• Unpredictable chains of events• System adapts itself and changes
It is real life!
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Transport
Business Development - minimal services due to vertical integration
MARKETSERVICES
(DIS)ENABLINGENVIRONMENT
MARKETCHAIN
Smallholders (80%) growing Olive Oil
(100,000 HHs)
Consumer:• Internatio
nal
Farm intensification – limited complimentary livelihoods:Herbs, Honey, Almond, Cous Cous
Informal Gulf Gift market
(30%)
Bottlers
(9)
Domestic retailers (20%)
Commercial presses
(280- presses)
US, Far east and European Retailers and Supermarkets
(10%?)Differentiated Markets by quality and certification- virgin/extra virgin
- - FT/Organic/non FT- - Solidarity/mainstream
Israeli’s define trade policy, logistics and access to assets
Lack of trust between actors in the sector
Export logistics in current security situation Liberalisation: disruption in
input supplies, quality control problems
Lack of power/influence of Olive oil council and other
farmers’ representative org.
Limited access to water sources
Producer organisation
(40)
Limited research - drought /pest resistant crops
Extension
All delivered through NGO’s
Finance
Working capital and
export Credit
Insurance Savings
Pests and disease
Rainfed ag. – limited and unpredictable rainfall
OPT Agriculture viewed as an investment
Non-commercial actors with limited
business and financial skills
By-product – Olive paste
Access/maintenance of farms near settlements/
behind the wall/mountains
Supply Stability
Sector management and Trade policy
Land claiming by Israeli’s, declining
soil fertility and fragmentation
Assets
Farmer’s and Coops/groups lack
of a business mentality/passivity
Women lack time and ??
attitudesand beliefs
Consumers solidarity with Palestinian cause
Education levels and skill transfer from Israeli Ag.
Quality image being eroded by ‘Gift’ trade
Wholesalers
(120)
Domestic Manufacturers
(5%)
Export Manufacturers
(?%)
Home consumption
Irrigation – limited technologies
Donor interest
High labour cost
Coop Presses
FLO/IMO/Organic
certification
FLO pricing
Donor money
Low overall quantity
Storing changes specification
First mover advantage on FT
100% Women
95% Men
90% Men
100% men
100% men
Men andwomen
15%women
Men andwomen
100% men
100% men
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SYSTEMS THINKING:SOME KEY QUESTIONS
A. What underlying causes were being addressed? How did they link to the interventions used?
B. What were the wider impacts beyond immediate beneficiaries? What lessons can be drawn from these wider impacts?
C. What were the main factors causing inequality between men and women? How did you tackle these factors?
D. What relationships with others were important? What did you do to build and benefit from them?
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SYSTEMS THINKING
• Popular definition
• Examples from non-MECIS projects:
• Colombia dairy – influencing through stakeholder forums
• Ethiopia Coffee – new business model
• Tanzania Sisal – private sector linkage
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Enterprise Development
Resilience Building
Innovative Services
GenderInfluence & Investment
New Business Models
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GROUND RULES• Tight timing on presentations: 12 minutes plus
3 minutes for handover and points of clarification…
What else?• Punctuality?• Mobiles?• Use of laptops?• Confidentiality?• How to talk about the work of other people?• ANK?
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Acronyms Nobody Knows
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CONTEXT: BY LOCATIONArmenia – Azerbaijan – Georgia
– oPt (2 groups) – TajikistanPlease summarise on matching coloured Post-its the context in your location: briefly in marker pens:
• What is positive for Oxfam’s work• What is negative for Oxfam’s work
- within each of the 5 sectors:
Positive Negative
Public sector
Private sector
Civil society
Smallholder agriculture
Household/domestic culture
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CONTEXT: BY SECTOR
Please study Post-its in 1 of the 5 sectors:
how much is the same and how much is different between locations?
Table U + ARIJ: Public sector
Table V + Ramila + Wassem: Private sector
Table W + Beesyna: Civil society
Table X + Ghazi: Smallholder agriculture
Table Y + Wael: Household/domestic culture
After every 4 minutes we shall move round.
PS
CS
SHA
HH/DC
PS
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INNOVATIVE SERVICES: GROUP WORK
In Tajikistan and each location represented in the group that has supported innovation in services to women and men smallholders:
1. In relation to innovative services:
a) what worked well?
b) what did not work?
2. Systems questions: group 1 answers A / group 2: D / group 3: C / group 4: B – see paper
Please choose someone to record key points on the flipchart and report back a summary in plenary.
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NEW BUSINESS MODELS: GROUP WORK
In Azerbaijan, West Bank and each location represented in the group that has supported links to commercial buyers and wholesale markets through new business models:
1. In relation to new business models:
a) what worked well?
b) what did not work?
2. Systems questions: group 1 answers B / group 2: A / group 3: D / group 4: C – see paper
Please summarise your answers in pictures and choose someone to explain the pictures in plenary.
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