This document discusses recommendations for empowering women and supporting landless laborers through the SEMIL-SRI-LMB project in Cambodia and Laos. It notes that women and landless laborers are among the most marginalized groups, with women comprising nearly half the agricultural workforce but facing higher illiteracy and less recognition for their farming roles. The document recommends establishing participatory gender action plans, ensuring women's inclusion in all project stages, and mainstreaming gender sensitivity. It also suggests identifying the specific needs of landless laborers and anticipating the impacts of introducing SRI on rice labor markets. At the policy level, it recommends emphasizing gender issues, identifying gender gaps in land access policies, and strengthening relationships with government gender structures.

1. Keo Kaneka
kkeo@oxfamamerica.org
SEMIL-SRI-LMB project

2.  SRI will have on two specific groups, women and
landless labourers (often relying on farm labour for
their livelihoods).
 Review of research and learning that has emerged
in recent years around gender and landless.
 prepare a basic synthesis of the learning and
recommendations from this material »
 These recommendations will constitute a basis to
refine the curriculum, support materials and MEL
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3. - Landless labourers are considered among the most
marginalized groups,
- They are poor with few productive assets, are
mostly under-employed and under-paid and have
little education and skills,
- 21.1% of Cambodian households were landless and
another 23.3% had less than 0.5 ha in 2008 , while
Lao’s stated that 15% of Lao households were
landless and another 28.5% had less than 1 ha in
2008 .
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4. - 68.1% of the population lives in rural areas, women
comprise 48.1% of the agricultural labour force on
average.
- The differentiated roles of men and women in
agriculture and rural households have received increased
attention from researchers, aid donors, and
policymakers in recent years.
- Majority of women are illiterate compare to men
- Women spent more time involve in farming but their
role in farming system have been over look.
- In current economic grow and in the situation of men’s
migration to other labour work , women is taking the
role as farm management ( Cambodia and Loa )
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5.  Thailand, latest accounts (USAID, 2009)
estimated that about 10% of farming
households were landless in 2005, and 17%
held under 0.8 hectares.
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6.  AT FPAR level :
 Establishing participatory gender action plans
(PGAP)
 Ensuring women inclusion at all stages of the
FPAR ( from selection to design for training topic)
 Mainstreaming gender sensitivity throughout the
project.
 Develop Women ‘s Employment Framework
through FPAR
Summary of recommendations on women’s empowerment through FFS
To be discussed on October 31, 2013 and adapted pending approval from project partners:
•Analytical framework: adapt components of the WEAI and Longwe frameworks and include these elements in the pre-
CFPAR and FPAR surveys,
•Conduct participatory analysis with FFS participants with a view or establishing Participatory Gender Action Plans
(PGAP) including:
Saving groups,
Book-keeping,
Participatory follow-up sessions,
Women trainings,
Province and national women trainings,
Post FPAR cycle review.
•Ensure women inclusion in FPAR through:
Revision FFS participants selection process,
Women’s equal access and visibility in all activities.
•Adopt an Overall Gender Action Plan (OGAP) to assess gender mainstreaming, in particular by:
Ensuring that staff and partners recruitment includes gender-sensitive criteria,
Building-up staff capacity on gender issues throughout the project, including by participating in networks
working on rural women’s rights and creating an internal gender working group,
Revising all relevant project documents and procedures.
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7.  AT FPAR level :
 Identifying landless labourers’ specifics in the
SEMIL-SRI-LMB project
 Anticipating the impacts of SRI introduction on
rice labour markets
 Implications on project-structure and MEL
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8.  AT POLICY &ADVOCACY LEVEL:
 Women as key aspect in any policy research and Analysis
 Identify Gender Gap in current policy environment (
Gender Gap is access to productive Agriculture land )
 Ensure issue of women farmer have been identified as
strong position in policy Recommendation ( ASDP 2014-
2018 Cambodia )
 Establish Relationship with Government ‘s Gender
mainstreaming ‘structure ( Lao PDR & Cambodia ).
 Promote Women in Public forum through strengthen
women farmer public speaking capacity ( Cambodia &
Lao )
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