1. Gender Analysis of Agricultural Value
Chains
a practitioner perspective
By Angelica Senders
Fair and Sustainable Advisory Services/ ICCO
May 25, 2011

2. Gender Sensitive
Value Chain development
• Aims at contributing to women’s
empowerment and gender equality
• For this we need to know
– what are the gender inequalities in the value
chain
– What are their causes
– What are the Gender Based Constraints: what
prevents this chain to work for women
– What are opportunities to change this
• The ICRW tool will be a great help in this!

3. A practitioners perspective
Take phasing into account
• Different objectives and thus research
questions
• In the different phases of the intervention
value chain development
• These objectives will be each time more
specific:
1. Selection of Value chains
2. Analysis of value chains
3. Definining upgrading strategies/ interventions
4. Monitoring, evaluation and learning

4. Increased focus
of the analysis
M&E
Shaping the intervention
Analysis if one specific VC
Selection of the VC

5. Analysis
• Describe and understand
• Identify the action perspective
• Shape the intervention/ what is needed in
this value chain?
– Capacity building
– Partnership building
– Sensitization
– Technology
– …..
• Identify how we can contribute to this

6. Action learning
• Analysis is not a
Implementation Analysis
one-off activity
• But continuous in
repeating cycles of
action learning
• Not one tool but a Planning
Toolbox

7. Analysis for success!
• Monitor whether we are likely to
achieve our gender objectives
• Describe and share lessons learned
• Try to close the gap between
the gender sensitive analysis and
the succesfull gender intervention