WEL-GEM Annual Learning Journey Day 4 Azerbaijan, 2-6 July 2012

WEL-GEM Annual Learning Journey

Day 4

Azerbaijan, 2-6 July 2012

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Agenda, day 4

09:00 Strawberry market map presentation

09:20 Three groups collect main observations of field trip

10:00 Presentation of main observations

10:45 Break

11:00 2 groups: recommendations on 1) women’s agency and 2) how to fill gaps

11:45 Presentation of recommendations

12:15 First thoughts from Azerbaijan team

12:30 Lunch

13:30 Travel from Ganja to Baku

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Bizness Services

• Providing the seedlings of new varieties and fertilisers. Mainly men get access coz women don’t drive to shops

Seedling and

fertilisers providers

Financial Services

Difficulties to access low rate interest loans especially for women farmers . Fear no able to repay. No collateral. No reference.Cultural “gossip” of bad women. No insurance.

Business Environment

Low level of communal services

(gas,water, electricity

Impact of processing

companies: Ready-to-cook food saves

women’s timeEqual distribution of land & water between men &

women but mainly men get the land

Low paid work. 10-20 % men, husbands and teenages mainly for transporting the women or for irrigation

Waged Workers

80 % women mainly in

harvesting and weeding Limited number of agro

information centres with unprofessional experts. Some women extension workers. BDS not used.

Laws on cooperatives. People working as

cooperatives pay 14% tax but individuals pay 2%.

Disincentive to collective business action. New

cooperative law proposed by Oxfam & partners read

in parliament

Corruption in subsidies and to low

rate agri loans

Technologies

Bazar zənciriSmall/Big

Processing companies/wom

en employees 40%

Markets/supermarkets/

fresh fruit shops/10%

women

Traders in Bazaar

30% women

Shops/10%

women

Strawberry growing farmers

70% women

Difficulties in trading. Access to local small markets easy

but to big markets needs

to pay bribe

No planning in cultivating the agricultural crops. No Rotation

plan

• Limited Technology• Limited condition for

soil, water analyses.• Women working by

hand. High level of hard work for women coz lack of proper tech

Lack of trust between

market actors

Market Information

Agro Information

Services

Lack of contacts (traders/market)

especially for women who risk

sexual (eye) harassment

when they go out to build contacts

Challenges and Opportunities in market chain for strawberry

Consumers

Distributers

Women have no access to internet. Only

women get info by

mobile tel.

Foreign Suppliers

Middlemen

Objective:

Identify strategic interventsions that can increase women’s agency within households and the market chain

Questions:

What useful information did you find out – highlights and what was new?

What gaps do we still have – other organizations or market actors in the market system that we need to know more about?

Agenda, day 4




10:45 Break




12:30 Lunch


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Agenda, day 4

Gaps identified:

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10:45 Break




12:30 Lunch


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10:45 Break




12:30 Lunch


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Request!

2 rapporteurs: on the bus / this evening:

“Thoughts on the field visit, what was good, what could we have done better, how does it feel for the host country?”

Feedback to Thomas or Liz or Ipe this eve / over breakfast tmrw.

Session 10: Recommendations on a) Women’s Agency and b) Gap-filling

Divide into 2 groups:

20 mins In just 1 day, we can’t meet all the actors in the market chain. To

make a comprehensive analysis: “What gaps do we still have in understanding the household dynamics & institutional landscape – what are your recommendations on how to fill these?

25 mins “What strategic interventions would you make to the Oxfam

Azerbaijan team on how they can work with stakeholders in households and the market chain to increase women’s agency “

EACH GROUP TO DO 10 MIN REPORT BACK AT 11.45!! THEN, INITIAL THOUGHTS FROM OXFAM AZERBAIJAN (Shovcat &

Joel)

Group B:

1. Mulugeta

2. Alexander

3. Rebecca

4. Shovcat

5. Elbay

6. Ramila

7. Saida

8. Sonali

9. Elvin

Session 10: Group a) Women’s Agency and Group b) Gap-filling 45 minutes in groups10 minutes each feedback

Group A:

1.Norul2.Neima3.Zahria4.Rosa5.Ann6.Joel7.Sevinj8.Hagigat

Agenda, day 4

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Can the issue be solved / opportunity be realised?(if not, walk away)

Analyse critical potential solution (is it achivable/what is the impact?)

Is action required? (nice to have/need to have?)

Who are the actors?(whose role is it,

who will pay?)

HOW•Do the analysis by taking each root cause through 3 simple questions:

1. Can the issue/opportunity be solved/realised?

2. Is the intervention achievable within the context of your environment/programme?

3. Is it a fundamental and sustainable change?

•The root causes / underlying factors for which the answer is ”yes” to all three questions above, the analysis continues with 2 additional steps:

• Rank the interventions based on: a) Greatest impact , b) Ease of implementation • Determine which actor is best placed to drive the intervention?

Agenda, day 4




10:45 Break




12:30 Lunch


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Documents

WEL-GEM Annual Learning Journey Day 4 Azerbaijan, 2-6 July 2012