OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES OF COSTING SECTORAL POLICIES AND
INTERVENTIONSCosting the Agricultural Gender Strategy
Rwanda ExperienceBolivia, 12 September, 2013
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Outline
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Gender Context in Rwanda
Benefit of Use of validated Agricultural Gender Strategy
Costing Experience
Challenges and Way Forward
Rwanda Agricultural Gender Strategy
Lessons learned and recommendations
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Rwanda Agricultural Gender Strategy
April 2011 the Agricultural Gender strategy and its costing were approved in a workshop chaired by the Permanent Secretary of MINAGRI at Laico Hotel in Kigali.
Main Actors: Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources Gender Monitoring Office Ministry of Gender and Family Promotion UNWOMEN CIDA
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Gender Context in Rwanda
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EDPRS I
Vision 2020
National Gender Policy
PSTA I2004/07
PSTA II2008/12
PSTA III20013/17
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EDPRS II
Rwanda National Constitution of 2003
Agricultural Gender Mainstreaming Strategy
Political Will
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Gender Mainstreaming in the Strategic Plan for Transformation of Agriculture II (PSTA II)
PROGRAMME 1: Intensification and
development of sustainable
production systems
PROGRAMME 2: Support to the
professionalization of producers
PROGRAMME 3: Promotion of commodity chains and
development of agribusiness
PROGRAMME 4: Institutional development
PSTA programmes
Rwanda’s Agricultural Gender Strategy emerged during the implementation of PSTA II (2008-12)
Gender was mainstreamed in the four PSTA III Programmes
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Costing Experience
Partners in the Agricultural Sector having gender in their intervention were grouped in the Agricultural Sub Sector Working Group, through which they gave their contribution in regards to costing of the sectoral gender mainstreaming strategy
Main national gender machineries (MIGEPROF & GMO)were also involved in the above sub-Sector working group
The review of existing statistics and relevant reports was used as a methodology to conceptualise the strategy
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Costing Experience Cont’d
Based on identified gaps, related interventions were proposed Proposed interventions were costed referring to the tariffs
and conditions of different goods and services provided by the Public Procurement authority. Identifying all tasks necessary to execute every activity
highlighted in the strategy that was deemed important in the realization of strategy outputs,
Assigning costs to all identified tasks based on market rates guided by the rationale for the activity as the underpinning principle (rates, quantities, inputs)
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The rates used in the costing were obtained from the guidelines on market issues in MINAGRI, and the regulation related to public procurement and public expenditure in Rwanda.
After the availability of the draft document, all Partners in the wide Sector working group also contributed and validated it. Possible investors were identified in the sub sector working group, mainly UNWOMEN and the Ministry of Agriculture.
After the availability of the draft document, all Partners in the wide Sector working group also contributed and validated it.
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One of the activities identified was to recruit a Gender Expert
to insure implementation of the Sectoral Gender Strategy.The recruitment was completed by July 2012
As a result, the PSTAIII document is gender responsiveOther activities have already been implemented (eg: A Needs Assessment Study on Gender responsiveness of Agricultural service delivery, Capacity building of Agronomists, Veterinarians and Service Providers in Gender Responsive Service Delivery, Gender mainstreaming in different policies and strategies at the Ministerial level)
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Benefit in the Use of validated Agricultural Gender Strategy (example)
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CAADP Cycle II: Private Sector Participation
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Challenges Way forward
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There is still an understanding that gender mainstreaming is a task of
the gender expert, and that it is a secondary issue.
Despite the Political Will, institutional arrangements and all other existing opportunities, There still tendency to ignore the request of gender disaggregated data.
The plan to engender existing Monitoring and
Evaluation Tools will help to get gender disaggregated data
regularly
Engendered PSTA targets will make every staff feel responsible while implementing related program
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Lessons learned and recommendations
Gender Mainstreaming Strategies are very useful tools in line with prioritising gender related interventions in the sector
Engendering responsive targets in sector strategies is the right way towards the elimination of existing gender gaps
Every sector of the economy should have its own gender mainstreaming strategy
Engendering Monitoring and Evaluation tools is very crucial, in order to take informed decisions.
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Thank YouMerci
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