INGENAES Zambia Stakeholder Workshop Presentation

INGENAES Zambia Stakeholder Workshop

A Global Ini+a+ve funded through Feed the Future

Lusaka, Zambia March 17, 2015

What is INGENAES?

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GOAL is to reduce gender gaps in agriculture, increase empowerment of women farmers, and improve the integraEon of and aOenEon to gender and nutriEon, both in and through agricultural extension and advisory services

²  Draw on experEse from consorEum of UC Davis, U Florida, U Illinois and Cultural PracEce LCC

²  Working with agriculture stakeholders in a collaboraEve process ²  Leveraging ongoing acEviEes ²  US $ 7 million ²  In 8 countries ²  September 2014 to January 2018.

I. Build gender-‐responsive and

nutri+on sensi+ve ins+tu+ons

II. Replicate gender-‐responsive and

nutri+on sensi+ve service delivery mechanisms

III. Promote dissemina+on of technologies that enhance women’s produc+vity and

improve nutri+onal outcomes

IV. Apply gender-‐appropriate and nutri+on-‐sensi+ve approaches and

tools

Increased access to informaEon and

training for women farmers

Increased access to appropriate

technologies and inputs by women

farmers

Improved knowledge about good nutriEon by men and women

Increased agricultural

producEvity and profitability

Increased

empowerment of women farmers

Increased women’s income

Improved nutriEon for all household

members

INGENAES Conceptual Framework ACTION AREAS

INGENAES Leveraged Impact

INGENAES InsEtuEonal Impact

Why are we here?

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n Lab ² USAID/Zambia invitaEon and acceptance for first

round of countries ² The Zambia Feed the Future program has clear gender and nutriEon objecEves

² Need in Zambia for improved gender and nutriEon outcomes

² Zambia demonstrates a willingness to improve gender and nutriEon outcomes

WHOM have we listened to …

Public sector

NGOs

Private Sector

Research

USAID and other donors

WHY are you here?

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What are the NEEDS for be/er integra3on of gender and nutri3on

within agricultural extension?

What are the GAPS?

What are the OPPORTUNITIES?

OUTCOME = Priori+zed list of ac+vi+es and +meline of INGENAES engagement with partners in Zambia

What are we aiming for? Outcomes

Increased access to informa+on and training for women farmers

Increased access to

appropriate technologies and inputs for women farmers

Improved nutri+on

knowledge by men and women

Empowering Women and Engaging Men

What we heard

Need increased access to

informa+on and training for

women farmers

Challenges: •  Public extension system is overextended •  Technical informaEon doesn’t reach all

smallholders, especially women •  Government supports pluralisEc extension systems

but is communicaEon effecEve?

Gaps: •  Need for consistent and efficient messaging across both nutriEon and gender-‐

related extension •  Need addiEonal training for extension agents (public, private and NGO) on

nutriEon and gender awareness and analysis •  Available experEse but limited knowledge sharing across extension efforts

What we heard

Need increased access to

appropriate technologies and inputs for women farmers

Challenges:

•  Many successful producEon and processing technologies but unclear how technology impacts gender roles and household Eme/labor allocaEon

•  Women dominant/missing in some agriculture value chain linkages, e.g. markeEng, processing

•  Not clear what technologies are accessible to women and what factors influence uptake of new technology

Gaps: •  Assessment of benefits and costs of labor saving and other technologies in

terms of gender and nutriEon outcomes •  Assessment of technology and knowledge availability across value chains for

men and women •  Understanding the unintended consequences of technological intervenEons

What we heard

Need to improve and

refine nutri+on informa+on for

men and women

Challenges:

•  High prevalence of stunEng despite reasonable adopEon of essenEal nutriEon acEons

•  Overburdened community health and nutriEon officers/agents

•  Limited standardized professional training in nutriEon

Gaps: •  Need for consistent, persistent and efficient messages about nutriEon •  Need for beOer informaEon and training on nutriEon, hygiene, and health

linkages •  Need more refined assessments of household producEon and consumpEon

and their relaEonship to nutriEon outcomes

Ac+on areas to achieve outcomes


nutri+on sensi+ve

ins+tu+ons


nutri+on sensi+ve service

delivery mechanisms

III. Disseminate

technologies that enhance women’s produc+vity and

improve nutri+onal outcomes

IV. Apply gender-‐responsive and

nutri+on-‐sensi+ve

approaches and tools


nutri+on sensi+ve

INSTITUTIONS

What INGENAES could do

•  Enhance gender and nutriEon awareness by strengthening partnerships and mentoring rela+onships between stakeholders and technical experts

•  Help develop technical tools and basic and/or targeted ac+on-‐oriented gender & nutriEon trainings for decision-‐makers at naEonal, provincial and district-‐levels

•  Promote coordina+on and informa+on sharing by developing and strengthening coordinaEon commiOees involving governmental, NGOs, and private sector actors


nutri+on sensi+ve SERVICE DELIVERY

mechanisms


•  Facilitate links among partners to exchange knowledge and scale proven strategies in new locaEons or on new topics

•  Help harmonize extension messaging, curricula, and agenda

•  Use parEcipatory methods to develop AES trainings and/or workshops to promote gender and nutri+on among smallholders and communiEes

III. Disseminate

TECHNOLOGIES that enhance women’s

produc+vity and improve nutri+onal

outcomes


•  IdenEfy ways to promote gender and nutri+on as "good for business" to enEce private sector involvement

•  IdenEfy and promote appropriate technologies specific to women farmers

•  Explore unintended +me and labor consequences of innovaEons in agriculture, gender, and nutriEon

IV. Apply gender-‐responsive and

nutri+on-‐sensi+ve EXTENSION

APPROACHES and TOOLS


•  Support and facilitate creaEon of teaching tools and materials tailored to Zambian women and men

•  Map gendered pathways between food producEon and nutriEon as a teaching tool

•  Assess gender and nutriEonal impacts of mobile/video/radio messaging

What are WE doing today?

Now we want to validate and prioriEze acEviEes and iniEate a joint workplan,

We listened,

That integrates gender and nutriEon into agriculture extension services.

Questions?

Break out into small groups à Review, revise, and prioritize a set of key questions

under each of INGENAES’ four Action Areas.

1.  Review quesEons iniEally developed by the INGENAES team and those collected in interviews conducted with partners in Zambia.

2.  Add any new quesEons and/or delete quesEons that do not apply to Zambia or seem less relevant.

3.  Discuss which are the most important quesEons to be addressed and rank them.

4.  Report their results to plenary on pieces of paper (go on sEcky wall)

5.  Microdot voEng

1.  Brainstorm new and review/revise stakeholder key ac+vi+es for each acEon area aligned with associated quesEons

2.  PrioriEze key ac+vi+es 3.  Report their results to plenary on pieces of paper (go on sEcky

wall)

4.  Microdot voEng

The ac+vi+es should be those that can help local organiza+ons to achieve their goals through partnering with INGENAES.

Regroup

Next Steps

Timeline for Zambia Ph

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Disclaimer

This presenta1on was made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for Interna1onal Development, USAID. The contents are the responsibility of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the

United States Government.

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INGENAES Zambia Stakeholder Workshop Presentation