Integrating gender in value chain analysis

Integrating gender invalue chain analysisValue chain workshop10 & 13 Aug 2012WorldFish Center

Why gender integration matters• Enhance chain productivity, nutrition outcomes through more resources in women’s hands• Improve the equity and effectiveness of VC interventions • Provides knowledge of how gender inequality may reduce the effectiveness of value chain interventions • Provides knowledge of how interventions may affect gender inequality• Raise new research questions related to achieving the SLOs • What are the economic and social consequences of VC reliance upon unpaid family labor? • Do VC interventions promoting joint production and intra- household decision-making lead to better farm and gender equity outcomes than those focusing on individual producers?

Gender integration in VCA:Minimum standard• Disaggregate actors at each node - dig deeper into who does what, uses what resources/technologies, gets what, decides/controls what • By sex and other forms of relevant social relations: caste, wealth, race, etc. • Identify • social groups’ concentrations at different levels of the chain • inequalities in returns/resources/decision making power – disincentives to VCD? • invisible workers whose workload may be increased, who may subsidize chain operations

Invisible workers Mayoux and Mackie 2008

Gender integration in VCA: Causalanalysis• Understand why the chain is organized and functions as it does, socially (gender-relevant data) • ‘Rules analysis’ to examine structural constraints on poor women’s and men’s engagement (social norms) • Examine ‘interlocking institutions’ - how do markets and households inter-relate to shape opportunities and outcomes • Gender division of labor in HH and effect on labor market choices and outcomes • Intra-HH decision making and incentives to upgrade in the chain• Examine how power operates across multiple levels of analysis • Chain governance, assumptions made within governance structures • Explore the quality of relationships among actors in nodes & across nodes • Intra-household relationships: cooperation/joint-ness and conflict

Gender integration as standardpractice: How to get there?• Standard tools are not gender-responsive• Gender tools exist but make gender an ‘add on’• Any method/tool is as good as its users • Gender and VCA capacity development required…but ICRAF 2012• What capacities need to be developed and how, to make gender integration standard VCA practice?

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Integrating gender in value chain analysis

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