Update on Livestock and Fish research
program output 3: Gender and society
Paula Kantor (WorldFish)
Livestock and Fish Gender Working Group Workshop and Planning Meeting
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 14-18 October 2013

Objective of Output 3
• “Strategies and approaches that increase women’s and
marginalized groups’ entitlement to access markets and control
resources, technologies, labor, power and the benefits of their
work”
• Focuses on wider social context within which a value chain
functions: how well does it enable equitable participation, on
good terms, and control over the benefits?
• Entitlement is key:
– own sense of entitlement;
– recognition by others of women’s and other marginalized
groups’ capacities and claims to engage in markets;
– translation of society’s recognition into the way formal and
informal institutions allocate opportunities and resources

Approaches to gender integration (www.igwg.org)

2013 actions
• Prepared one proposal for gender transformative
research, to the Gender Innovation Lab with a
series of L&F partners (Uganda, Tanzania &
Ethiopia)
– Unsuccessful, but can be pitched to other donors
• Drafted tools that integrate GTAs in value chain
analysis
– Need to be field tested in 2014
• Plans for a paper on the social embeddedness of
value chains and relevance of GTAs to value
chain performance and distribution of outcomes

Looking ahead
• Fundraising ideas (AGRA, BMGF, IDRC, ESRC…)
– Revise GIL proposal and resubmit
– Role of men & masculinity in fostering WEE through
livestock and fish VCs (Anna Sikira)
– Potential for achieving ‘transformative employment’
in livestock & fish VCs (with IDS)
• Examine the conditions under which VC employment has
been transformative for poor women: for which
women, under what conditions?
– Gender, risk and technology adoption studies