Poster prepared by Ephrem Tesema, March 2016

1. LIVES gender equality strategy
Ephrem Tessema e.tessema@cgiar.org P.O. box 5689 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia www.ilri.org
Gender milestones (April 2013—September 2015)
Concluding remarks
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Dairy Large
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Poultry Apiculture Vegetables Fruits Fodder
Value chain actors trained between April 2013 and September 2015 by commodity and gender
Input/service providers Input/service providers
Producers Producers
Processing and marketing businesses Processing and marketing businesses
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MHH FHH % of FHH
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Number of households coached and mentored
Research has highlighted the crucial importance of the contribution of women to
agricultural value chain development and governance in Ethiopia (Aregu et al. 2010).
Further analysis has revealed that shortages of productive assets, capacity-related
obstacles and socio-cultural norms negatively affect women’s farm productivity. In
addition, women play a limited role in decision-making, and lack access to and control
over income from the sale of agricultural produce.
There is a great degree of consensus regarding the importance of capacity
development, knowledge management and leadership skills in enhancing women's
role in community structures, such as water and community-based livestock breeding
associations.
In the Livestock and Irrigation Value chains for Ethiopian Smallholders (LIVES)
project—operating in 31 districts; 10 zones in four regions—gender is mainstreamed
across value chains mainly to improve existing gender equality gaps.
• Undertaking gender-sensitive value chain mapping and identifying livestock and irrigation commodities/value chain nodes through a gender lens
• Ensuring gender inclusions are taken into account in the organizations of capacity development training involving project and public extension staff
• Developing gender-sensitive and disaggregated planning and monitoring tools to track intervention outputs and outcomes
• Setting gender targets to ensure that by the end of the project the participation of female-headed smallholder households and female value chain
actors reaches or exceeds 20 and 25% respectively.
• Conducting a household baseline survey and producing gender-disaggregated reports on livestock and irrigation value chains
• Organizing gender-inclusive promotional activities to scale out and up project outcomes
Key strategies
Overview
The graphs below indicate the gender achievements of LIVES interventions over the last three years:
In enhancing women's participation in capacity building, knowledge management, value chain development, action research and the scaling up
and out of gender-sensitive interventions, LIVES:
• Involves couples (husbands/wives) in capacity building training;
• Targets all household members in coaching and mentoring;
• Targets female-headed households and women in male-headed households in capacity building training on commodities more beneficial to
women;
• Introduces gender-friendly livestock technologies; and
• Offers capacity building training in business orientation and marketing to men and women smallholders.
 Gender capacity development training for public sector extension staff  Graduate fellowship opportunity for extension and research system  Capacity development for value chain actors and
service providers
 Coaching and mentoring male- and female-headed households on
innovations, technologies and specific topics and commodities
 Coaching and mentoring Input/service providers and marketing businesses
coached and mentored
 Value chain actors trained on specific livestock and irrigation
value chains
Value chain actors involved in knowledge
management intervention
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Male Female Female %
Gender Mainstreaming ToT Training and Coaching for Public Extention Staff
Male Female Female %
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M F % F
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Public sector staff fellowships
Extension staff Research staff Competitive fellowships
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M F % of female
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18222 166 43
Value chain actors trained
Number of farmers trained Number of input/service providers trained
Number of other value chain actors trained
Value chain actors involved in Knowledge Management Interventions
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M F % F
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Value chain actors participated in KM interventions
Study tours Field days Commodity platforms
Immediate outcome
Oromia Amhara SNNPR Tigray
M F % F M F % F M F % F M F
%
F
Number of public
input/service providers
coached and mentored
672 161 19 594 225 27 705 155 18 1484 366 20
Number of private
input/service providers
coached and mentored
100 18 15 81 28 26 76 47 38 85 28 25
Number of other value
chain actors coached
and mentored
49 11 18 33 27 45 214 60 22 134 74 36