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Theory of Change: How will we address poverty?

CARE helpscommunitiesachievelong-termreductionsin povertyby…

Developinghumancapacity &providingeconomicopportunity

addressingsocialinjustice& inequity

With a focus on marginalizedwomen & girls

Demonstrating a long-termcommitment to the community

Addressing all threecomponents of the Unifying Framework

leveraging our areas of expertise, informed by ourdeep understanding of community needs

Measuring impact and advocating for policy change

Addressing basichuman conditionsthrough sectoralinterventions

Addressing powerimbalances resultingfrom• Poor governance• Gender inequities• Discrimination• Social and economic exclusion

Understanding that women and girls are the most vulnerable, with the strongestimpact on wholecommunities’ well-being

Acknowledging that working with men and boys will becrucial to our ongoing work

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CARE Bangladesh Mission

CARE Bangladesh amplifies the voices of the poor

and the marginalized in ways that influence public

opinion, development practice, and policy at all

levels. This happens as knowledge drawn from our

grass roots and global experience is channeled

through purposeful relationships with civil society,

government, and the private sector.

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Women’s Empowerment-Theory of Change

CARE Bangladesh Impact Statement on the most Socially,

Economically and Politically Marginalized Women

Women will be empowered by:

Exercise of

greater choice

in decisions

affecting their

lives

Reduced

violence

against

women

Strong

Social movements

built on women's

solidarity and

participation of men

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CARE Bangladesh Strategic Directions (2007-2011)

Organizational

Relevance

More influential in

addressing the

underlying causes of

poverty, more

legitimate in the eyes

of local civil society,

more accountable to

communities & more

flexible & competitive

in a maturing NGO

market.

Economic

Empowerment

Improved access to

dignified employment

for the poorest and

most marginalized,

especially women;

markets for their

products; information

& services for their

economic activities;

and technical support

for their

entrepreneurial

initiatives.

Learning Culture

A culture that

promotes learning,

knowledge sharing,

and excellence in

programming,

enabling staff and

partners to

understand,

demonstrate, and

measure impact on

the underlying

causes of poverty

and social exclusion

Goal of the Project

35,000 targeted landless and smallholding households mostly women in North and

Northwestern Bangladesh have increased incomes and more sustainable livelihoods through incorporation into a strengthened

milk value chain (2007-2011)

Increase production by improving access to inputs, markets, and

services by mobilizing groups of poor producers and input service provider

Improve the milk collection system in rural and remote areas

Improve the breeding/Artificial Insemination (AI) network

Ensure access to quality animal health services at the producer level

Improve the policy environment.

Objectives of the Project

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Bangladesh Dairy Value Chain

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Improving Productivity and Capacity

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Gender Analysis of the Dairy Value Chain

Main Challenges

Women and their HHs are not organized into groups to take advantage of training and other information.

Women and girls consume less milk in the household than their male counterparts.

Women do not have decision making authority on the livestock assets especially large ruminants.

Gender roles and tradition limit women’s opportunities as dairy producers, collector, processors, livestock health worker and input seller

Equal opportunities for women employees are limited, and employers are often not open to hiring women

Women are overburdened as housekeepers, Small Scale Producers and day labourers

Equal opportunities for independent women entrepreneurs cannot be found and leveraged.

Farmer & Farmer Leader

Milk Collector

Livestock Health Worker

Community Feed Seller

Vet Medicine Shopkeeper

SDCV facilitates

women engagement

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• Women farmer leaders are successfully leading 67% of farmer groups including mixed group

• Social acceptance has changed on women role. Many are “change agents”

• They provide basic animal husbandry and feeding advice to group members and the community, including men.

• Women’s knowledge and opinions on animal husbandry are increasingly valued in the community.

• Changed the view of women role in unprecedented entrepreneurship (Livestock Health Worker and milk collector)

• Women engagement in dealing with other livestock inputs

Improving Productivity and Capacity

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What we have done differently

• Strong platform of solidarity in the community. Many women has

emerged as “change agents”.

• Introduce successful women farmer leaders and entrepreneurs as

model for others

• Being reflective on women barriers in the field and address those

accordingly

• Take positive discrimination for women (e.g. No training fees from

women LHW)

• Work with family member of prospective women farmer leaders

and entrepreneurs for motivating and reducing the work load for

them

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Challenges

• Market incentives and access

• Education and capacity

• Mobility and nature of work (Women LHWs Vs

Women Collector)

• Our limitation

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Baseline captures on decision making and control

Women’s decision-making power

Ranging from decisions to work and to spend income from work

Decisions to take loans from NGOs spending decisions

Control of assets, money, decisions regarding livestock and dairy

management

Women’s mobility

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Some key research questions in the ongoing

mid term evaluation

• Do the women farmers and milk collectors feel that their status has changed in their household and in the community changed since SDVCP participation? If yes, is the change better or worse than before? Why?

• Has the income of the women project participants increase? If it has, who spends the money and how?

• Do the women project participants perceive that they have a better role in decision making in the home? In their community? Why do they perceive so?

• Has there been any change in their confidence, movement in the market place, bargaining and marketing skills? If yes, what factors contributed to the change?

• What are the main obstacles faced by these women with respect to their involvement in the dairy business and in their homes?

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Farmers and Farmer Leaders

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Collective actions

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Milk Collector

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Women LHW

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Women Feed/fodder seller

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