Capacity development in the
Livestock and Fish research program
gender strategy
Kathleen Colverson
Livestock and Fish Gender Working Group
Workshop and Planning Meeting
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 14-18 October 2013

Gender strategy of the CGIAR Research Program on
Livestock and Fish
Livestock and fish Gender
strategy finalized &
approved in May 2013
• The strategy operates along a continuum of
gender integration approaches, to achieve
its four key outputs:
i.
Capacity development
ii.
Access and control of resources in
livestock and fish value chains
iii.
Gender transformative approaches
iv.
Gender and nutrition

Output 1: Increased gender capacity within CG, partner
organizations, and value chain actors to diagnose and
overcome gender based constraints within value chains
Rationale for Output 1:
• Change won’t be achieved by individuals / organizations in
isolation - thus need for gender capacity building targeted at all of
CG, partner organizations and VC actors
• Need to influence and inspire partners to integrate gender not
mandate

Activities to support Output 1 - 2013
• Identify partners who are interested in using gendered
tools and approaches to overcome gender based
constraints in target value chains.
• Research and identify appropriate tools and approaches
for gender and value chain capacity development.
Provide training in tool application to partners.

Output 1: 2013 Successes
•
Training manual developed and released: “Closing the Gender Gap in
Agriculture: A Trainer’s Manual”
•
Capacity development in Ethiopia, Uganda, Philippines, Thailand, Kenya
and Mozambique (and within ILRI i.e. support of ILRI staff to genderdize
KAP survey and data analysis for Tanzania)
•
ILRI - gender staff hired for Tanzania, Uganda and Nicaragua
•
Other? Backstopping of students in Tanzania (e.g. gender-sensitive semistructured interviews; gender and food access in Tanzania)

Drs. Kathleen Earl Colverson
and Rameswar Deka
International Livestock Research Institute
FAO Workshop – Bangkok, Thailand
June 2013

Additional Capacity Development for L&F Gender Strategy
Activity
Country
Date
Total
Participants
Male Participants
Female Participants
Small Ruminant VC meeting –
gender training
Ethiopia
November
2012
25
20
5
LIVES planning meeting –VC gender
training
Ethiopia
March 2013
35
29
6
FF workshop
Kenya
“Integrating Gender and Rights into
Development Projects”
February
2013
25
Pig VC meeting – gender training
Uganda
April 2013
26
19
7
FAO Workshop “Gender, Livestock
&Livelihoods in SE Asia”
Thailand
June 2013
25
12
13
L&F Gender Working Group workshop
– tools and approaches
Ethiopia
October 2013
39
Integrating Gender into USAID
programs in Mozambique
Mozambique
November
2013

What’s Next? 2014 Activities
• Gender training
workshops
• Test and refine
training manual
• Develop
publications
• Collection of gendered
consumption patterns
of ASF
• Train CG staff &
partners on using
gender disaggregated
assessment tool
1.Building 2.Gender
gender
& value
capacity
chains
3.Nutrition 4.Gender
Transforma
& Gender
tive
in value
Approaches
chains
(GTAs)
• Evaluate tools’
effectiveness
• Training
workshops
• Conference &
workshop
presentations
• Develop tools &
approaches that
include a GTA to
value chain work
• Develop/submit
proposals

Additional Capacity Development IDEAS???
Shamba Shape Up!
Visiting Scientists?
You Tube Videos?
Out of the Box Ideas???
Consultant company for ILRI internal training

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in sustainable ways, making meat, milk and fish more available and affordable across the developing world.