Presented by Rehema L. Mwateba, Independent Social Development Consultant, May 2016

1. Gender in ACGG project:
The case of Tanzania
Rehema L. Mwateba
Independent Social Development Consultant
May 2016

2. HIGHLIGHTS
• Definition terms
• Participation of women in Agriculture and livestock
keeping
• Overall intentions of ACGG project in relation to
gender
• Proposed gender transformation intervention in
Tanzania
• What has been done:Outline of tools and materials
• What remains to be done

3. DEFINITION OF TERMS
• Gender
• Women empowerment
• Gender transformation
• Gender analysis
• Gender mainstreaming

4. WOMEN PARTICIPATION
• Over 90.4 4 percent of active women in
Tanzania are engaged in agricultural activities
• Contributed 24.1 percent of GDP
• Contributed 30.0 percent export earnings
• Crop production contributed 17.6 percent of
GDP in 2012
• In the same year livestock keeping
contributed 4.6 percent of GDP

5. Continued…..
• Study by TGNP in 2009 on Care economy
showed that women spend a lot of time on
reproductive, productive and community
maintenance roles which is not included in
assessing and reporting GDP
• Social norms, power structures and relations
impact on lives and opportunities available
to different groups of men and women

6. Continued…….
• Different groups of men and women face
different barriers in accessing services,
economic resources and leadership
opportunities eg
• In 2010 adult population was half men and
half women. This did not match the 234:21
male:female ratio of members of parliament

7. Continued
A group of men from Lindi reported 90%
ownership and control over resources by men
compared to 10% by women.
• With regards to participation in decision making
and leadership participants reported it is a
domain of men. The group of men from Lindi
estimated participation of men compared to
women is 95% and 5% respectively.
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8. OVERALL INTENTIONS OF ACGG PROJECT IN
RELATION TO GENDER
In the ACGG proposal it has been stated that…
Most importantly, we want to make gender
equality equity and women’s empowerment
a core objective of the program…….
and that this should translate to:
Increased empowerment of women
smallholder farmers in the chicken value
chain to be seen across rural communities

9. What has been done
• Selected project implementing staff received
gender training in Ethiopia in 2015

10. What has been done….continued
• A facilitators guide has been adapted. It is in
Kiswahili language

11. What has been done….continued
• A meeting was held to merge ideas on
community IP and gender transformation

12. What has been done….continued
• An outline on expected sequence of events
has been drafted

13. WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE
• Development and adoption of modalities for
integrating all ACGG intervention activities
not gender as a separate entity ie for
example include a section that describes
gender transformation indicators and how to
monitor progress, periodicity of reporting etc
• Orientation of facilitators to the training
guide

14. Continued……
• Gender training, implementation and
monitoring and evaluation among household
members that will receive chicks as well as
project follow up among respective community
members
• Project redesign to allow reallocation of funds
to accommodate among other activities, gender
training of facilitators, production of materials
and reports including gender transformation
monitoring and evaluation reports for sharing at
all levels