Expected gender-related outcomes
Gender approach and activities
Project Impact Pathway
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Integrating gender equity and empowerment in the Dairy Goat and Root
Crop Production project: current issues and next steps
• Impact on empowerment, food security & nutrition
• Increased ability of women to independently
participate in various stages of the value chains
• More equitable relations between men and women
Gender analysis to assess current situation
Gender integrated in project activities and evaluation
• Capacity building in gender analysis
• Community trainings on gender
• Women included in breeding, market, animal health
• Provision of goats and crops to women
• Support women’s special interest groups
Findings
Lack of an empowerment impact pathway
Gender equity as a key emergent property of system
• Farmers limited involvement in the intervention
• New gender-division of labour for goats
• Ownership of goats reported not to be joint
• Decision-making about goats is mostly with men
• Gender trainings were effective
Recommendations
Research into development pathways
Gender empowerment framework
The situation after 2 years of activities
Participatory approaches to:
• Define an empowerment conceptual framework
• Set empowerment goals
• Translate the framework and goals into a pathway
• Identify indicators of change
• Assess success of project in enhancing change
New approach: empowerment
framework and pathway
Contact
Alessandra Galiè: a.galie@cgiar.org