Our approach
Principles guiding the gender strategy
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Developing a Gender Strategy: The East African Dairy Development (EADD)
experience
• Increase the effective participation of women in
project activities
• Achieve a more equitable access to project and
program resources
• Improve practical benefits for women such as
increased income, assets), greater financial
security, and more livelihood options
• Achieve progress toward more gender equality
Strategic objectives
Key Issues
Key issues to be addressed by
the gender strategy are
grouped into four levels:
• Staff level:
• Chilling plant (marketing
level)
• Group level
• Household/production level
• Low livestock numbers owned by female
headed households
• Higher proportions of male headed
households selling milk than female
headed households in Uganda and Rwanda
• Majority of decisions to use AI service, bull
service and on milk sales made by men
across all countries (in over 80% of
households).
• Fewer women have access to credit
services
• Fewer women than men have had access
to business training
The situation at Baseline
Recommendations
• Every EADD Partner Organization should have a gender focal
person to form a gender working group at country level
• EADD Operation and Planning Budgets should reflect gender
issues in all activities
• Technical training to focus on gender integration-Review EADD
training modules to include and integrate gender aspects.
• Evaluate services offered by chilling plants, and the extent to
which they meet the needs of women
• A monitoring system of women’s benefits and share of income
from milk going to them
• Exposure visits for men and women that demonstrate benefits
of shared decision making and women’s involvements
• EADD to set aside a sponsorship program for young women at
community level to participate in trainings as farmer trainers
and service providers
• Analyze labor issues involved in shifts from pastoral system to
the intensive system for women
• Integrate technology evaluation system that integrates gender
issues to know women’s perceptions of the different
technologies and be able to address these.