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Advancing Competitiveness, Reducing Poverty, Empowering Women
Applying a Gender Equity Lens to Enhance Value Chain Development
CARE / Christian Pennotti / Catherine Hill
Development Trainings Services / Cristina Manfre
Emerging Markets Group / Jacqueline Bass
Agenda
- Welcome
- Setting the Stage
- Panelist Research Introductions
- Panel Discussion- Conceptualizing gender in a value chain context- Incorporating gender into project design and implementation- Measuring results, striving for scale- The road ahead
- Questions and Answers
Agenda
- Welcome
- Setting the Stage
- Panelist Research Introductions
- Panel Discussion- Conceptualizing gender in a value chain context- Incorporating gender into project design and implementation- Measuring results, striving for scale- The road ahead
- Questions and Answers
Setting the Stage
Why are we still talking about gender and value chain development?
Hasn’t gender already been mainstreamed?
Well… not exactly. Some key points.
• Lots of progress in broad mainstreaming efforts but need to institutionalize.
• Growing global recognition of the need to incorporate gender and women for development to succeed • Buzz Words: Rural, Agriculture, South Asia, Sub-Saharan
Africa
• Growing body of evidence and tools for gender integration in value chain and private sector development
Gender Equitable Approaches to VC Development Improve:
• Household wellbeing Women’s employment / access to and control over
resources = household wellbeing
• Productivity Women’s access to inputs = yields / ha
• Competitiveness Gender-based labor allocations = economic efficiency
• Economic Growth Increased gender equality correlated with
economic growth
Agenda
- Welcome
- Setting the Stage
- Panelist Research Introductions
- Panel Discussion- Conceptualizing gender in a value chain context- Incorporating gender into project design and implementation- Measuring results, striving for scale- The road ahead
- Questions and Answers
Development & Training Services, Inc. (dTS)
Project: Promoting Gender Equitable Opportunities in Agricultural Value Chains
Dates: May 2008 – September 2009Countries: Kenya and Tanzania
Summary To provide a combined technical assistance and training program that builds staff
capacity to:
• Understand how gender issues affect agricultural value chains
• Learn to apply gender analysis to address gender issues in agricultural value chains
• Identify strategies for addressing gender issues in agricultural value chains
Key Research Findings
• Program staff encounter gender issues regularly
• Program staff need greater ability to address them
• Fear of ‘changing culture’ can be challenged
• Outliers are now commonplace
• Opportunities exist to ‘upgrade’ women’s participation in chains
• Creative actions to GbC are easily identifiable and manageable
Development & Training Services, Inc. (dTS)
CARE
Project: A Place to Grow - Empowering Women in our Agriculture Value Chain Programs
Dates: Feb 2008 – Oct 2009Countries: Desk Review: 11 Africa, 4 LAC
In-Country: Ghana, Mozambique, Uganda, Honduras
Summary: CARE committed to tackle underlying causes of poverty, theory of change ties gender equity to poverty
reduction
Women = key impact group for agriculture and economicdevelopment strategies
A Place to Grow- Developed Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Framework- Assessed women’s empowerment through CARE agriculture programs (n = 383 projects, 52 countries; 10M hh)- HG Buffet Foundation supported
CARE
Applying the WEA Framework to Land and Property Rights
Key Research Findings
• Good at addressing issues at the individual level (agency); more work needed on root causes, systemic approaches
• Many promising practices, but not applied consistently
Key Recommendations
• Develop, test, apply organizational/programming approaches re: structure, relations (e.g. engaging men, land and property rights)
• Move to program approach, long-term commitment to gender issues (e.g.CARE/partner/donor commitment)
• Undertake capacity strengthening as ongoing, monitored process (e.g. improve shared learning, documentation)
CARE
Emerging Markets Group Ltd.
Project: Early Lessons Targeting Populations with a Value Chain Approach
Dates: January 2009Countries: Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya
Summary: Three project assessment of effects of VC approach on vulnerable populations:
• USAID-funded COPE project – links orphans, vulnerable children and caregivers with market-based income- earning training while providing subsidized non-economic benefits.
• USAID-funded Uganda SPRING – economic initiatives for peace focused on three value chains in northern Uganda.
• Nike Foundation ‘Value Girls’ Project – exclusively targets adolescent girls with economic engagement strategies
Key Research Findings
• Utilize an integrated approach
• Recognize that the Value Chain Approach Takes Time to Demonstrate Results
• Balance Accountability Requirements, Short-Term Needs, and Sustainability
• Apply a Specific Lens to the Value Chain Analysis
• Move Beyond Demographics
• Weigh the Costs and Benefits of Targeting
Emerging Markets Group Ltd.
Agenda
- Welcome
- Setting the Stage
- Panelist Research Introductions
- Panel Discussion- Conceptualizing gender in a value chain context- Incorporating gender into project design and implementation- Measuring results, striving for scale- The road ahead
- Questions and Answers
Agenda
- Welcome
- Setting the Stage
- Panelist Research Introductions
- Panel Discussion- Conceptualizing gender in a value chain context- Incorporating gender into project design and implementation- Measuring results, striving for scale- The road ahead
- Questions and Answers
Advancing Competitiveness, Reducing Poverty, Empowering Women
Christian Pennotti [email protected]é Lawson-Lartego [email protected] Catherine Hill [email protected] Manfre [email protected]
Jacqueline Bass [email protected]
