GALVmed and Gender:
Challenges & lessons
learned
Dr. Lois Muraguri
FAO Gender & Livestock Training Workshop
Addis Ababa, 22-25 November 2011

Outline
• GALVmed briefly
• Why gender?
• Initial steps and growing pains...
• Modest achievements
• Developing a strategy
– Where gender features in organisational structure
– Where gender fits in GALVmed’s present & future – reality and
aspirations
– Important thematic areas for GALVmed
• Challenges and lessons learned
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GALVmed - Global Alliance for Livestock Veterinary Medicines
• An Animal Health Product Development & Access Partnership organisation
• A not-for-profit Public-Private Partnership – registered charity
• Sponsored by BMGF, DFID and EC.
• Pro-poor focus: working with key partners to make a sustainable difference
in access to animal health products for poor livestock keepers
“Protecting Livestock Saving Human Life”

For
many,
livestock
is a
necessity
not a
choice

VISION:
“Protecting Livestock, Saving Human Life”
MISSION:
In partnership, GALVmed promotes the identification, development
and delivery of accessible and affordable animal health products for
the world’s poorest livestock keepers, thus contributing to poverty
reduction.
• HQ Edinburgh U.K
• Africa Office (Botswana) + South Asia Office (India)
• Structure/Departments – R&D, P&EA, Finance, HR, Admin
• Board, SC, Advisory committees – ESAC, GAAC, SARAC

GALVmed’s unique approach
OPERATIONS GLOBAL ACCESS P&EA
Discovery Commer- Sustained
Development Registration Production
Research cialisation delivery
R&D Market Development
Lack of policies Inappropriate
Lack of Lack of Unclear and varied No support for
to support extension
supporting supporting regulatory encouraging
private sector systems
policies to policies for requirements commercial
stimulate investment in interest involvement
Counterfeit
research development e.g. Lack of QA/QC
products
AMCs, APGs Lack of support No support for
Multiple regulatory for AMCs, APGs, credit
guarantees, etc Lack of patent
Lack of patent authorities etc
protection
protection
Our role is to identify challenges and provide facilitation and leadership
in creating partnerships to address barriers relating to availability and
accessibility of pro poor animal health products
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Gender in organisational structure
OPERATIONS GENDER GLOBAL ACCESS P&EA
Discovery Commer- Sustained
Development Registration Production
Research cialisation delivery
R&D Market Development
• Monitoring & focal point sits in P&EA dept but understood
to be cross cutting
• Acknowledgement that gender can no longer be an
incidental by – product of a more generic disease based
approach
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GALVmed’s unique approach
• Works across whole livestock value chain
• Seeking partnerships in each area
• Sustainability through support of business/commercial model
• our niche is in partnership creation through out value chain to
mitigate risks, ensure buy in and sustainability
• Capacity building
• Taking leadership from developing countries
• Understanding what livestock farmers need
• Getting critical livestock vaccines/medications and diagnostics
into the hands of farmers - delivery
Available, Accessible, Affordable, Adoptable
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GALVmed is completing
Animal Health
Industry
Governments the picture.....
Pro Poor
GALVmed Solutions Impact
Research Institutions Poor Farmers through
sustainable
Animal
Health
Universities
Donors
Identified
Potential Need
Solutions
CatalystFacilitator Innovation

Why gender?
• Women already supply majority of labour and expertise on
small holder farms; 66% of world’s 600m poor livestock
keepers are rural women
• Women provide half of world’s food, earn only one tenth of
world’s income, own less than one hundredth of world’s
property (ILRI, 2008)
• Any intervention directed at poverty reduction must take
gender seriously – at all levels
• On business side - gender equality is smart economics
• Gender is an essential component in effectively and
sustainably improving livelihoods
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Growing pains
• Grand plans for gender in first grant – didn’t come to
fruition
• No streamlined or strategic steps at the beginning
• Slow start in integrating gender conceptually with SEI &
M&E
• Commissioning support – small pool of experts with
integrated approach
• Balancing pragmatism and the ideal
• Challenges in convening and adopting multi stakeholder
approaches
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Modest achievements
• Commissioned two gender reports – Africa and South
Asia
• Begun collecting gender related data in our baseline
surveys – work in progress and steep learning curve
• Consultative workshop with ultimate aim of assembling
‘ingredients’ that will help GALVmed develop gender
strategy & implementation plan
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Challenges and lessons so far
• Gender targeting doesn’t happen automatically –
deliberate actions needed
• There’s a lot of info on gender but particularly crucial is
the ‘how to’ and the ‘will’ to implement gender strategies
at all levels – Board, Directors’ Group, all staff + partners
• Balance between what we can learn from others and what
is applicable/feasible – fit for purpose
• Important: listen to others, honest self reflection and
willingness to learn and implement
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Challenges and lessons so far
• Data collection – very very steep learning curve
– Livelihoods approach is more meaningful
– Understanding intrahousehold dynamics is important
– Gender sensitisation, training and analysis to ensure same
understanding
– Participatory approaches can yield useful outcomes
• Integrating gender into ongoing activities
• Partner selection using gender criterion – balance & trade
offs
• practical & efficient steps to mainstreaming gender
• But these challenges are also opportunities...
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Gender in GALVmed’s Business Plan
• BP covers 2011 – 2017
• Reflects lessons from Phase 1 & sets objectives and
broad intentions for Phase 2
• Although there’s a specific section on gender, references
are made through out document
– Species: Poultry platform, Small ruminant platform
– ‘Last mile’ distribution models
– Market Development
– Voice & policy
– M&E
– Fundraising
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Gender in GALVmed’s Business Plan
• Analysis of BP would (perhaps) reveal:
– Commitment to working on gender
• blind aware responsive
– Conceptualisation (and some practice) of gender integration and
mainstreaming
• Mention of gender under various Major Activities
• Budgetary project design
• No intention of creating gender unit
– Women not just seen as end beneficiaries but potential
participants at various parts of the value chain
– Indications of gender attention at R&D/technical side – target
product profile
– Perhaps at odds?
• Aspirational and ambitious vs GALVmed’s pragmatic approach 16

Gender in GALVmed’s present & future
• Important themes for GALVmed which conceptualisation
and formulation of gender strategies and implementation
activities must bear in mind (& vice versa):
– Business development, market development &
commercialisation
– Data, data, data (and more data!) – M&E
– Capacity building
– Partnerships
• How do we practically integrate gender in GALVmed’s
key themes?
• How do we mainstream gender internally & in our
activities with others? 17

Thank you
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THANK
YOU
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