The document outlines a methodology for collecting gender and nutrition data through various activities, including literature reviews, community profiling, and focus groups. It details the composition of the field team and the specific demographics involved in focus groups and interviews, emphasizing the importance of understanding gender roles and economic activities in different socioeconomic groups. The findings aim to enhance gender research integration into agricultural practices and recommend strategies for impactful technologies and interventions.

1. A4NH Gender-Nutrition Methods
Workshop II
Bioversity International – Rome
3 December 2014

2. Field team composition (each
case study)

3. Methodology: 7 data collection activities
Originally developed and tested by the World Bank
for its study On Norms and Agency (2013), now
adapted for the CGIAR study…
• Comparative case study method
• Standardization of key instruments
allowing broad patterns to be detected

4. Tool Respondents
Activity A. Literature review Principal investigator
Activity B. Community profile  1 or 2 male key informants
 1 or 2 female key informants
Activity C. Focus group: Ladder of Life (with
poor adults)
 1 FGD of 8 to 10 adult females, ages
30 to 55
 1 FGD of 8 to 10 adult males, ages 30
to 55
Activity D. Focus group: Capacities for
innovation (with middle class adults)
 1 FGD of 8 to 10 adult females, ages
25 to 55
 1 FGD of 8 to 10 adult males, ages 25
to 55
Activity E. Focus group: Aspirations of
youth (with older adolescents and young
adults )
 1 FGD of 8 to 12 female youth, ages
16 to 24
 1 FGD of 8 to 12 male youth, ages 16
to 24
Activity F. Semi-structured interview:
Innovation pathways
 2 male innovators
 2 female innovators
Activity G. Semi-structured interview:
Individual Life Stories
 2 males
 2 females

5. Activity A. Literature review

6. Activity B. Community profile

7. C. FGD: Ladder of life (with poor
adults)
poor
socioeconomic group
poor
socioeconomic group

8. D. FGD: Capacities for innovation
(with middleclass adults)
middle socioeconomic
group
middle socioeconomic
group

9. E. FGD: Aspirations of youth

10. F. Individual: Innovation pathways
successful innovators

11. G. Individual: Life stories

12. Open ended questions (Morocco)

13. Vignettes (Nigeria)

15. Pre-coded questions (Uganda)
Very rare (0 to 1 women in 10) ……………1
Somewhat rare ( 2 women in 10)………...2
Common (3 or 4 in 10) ………………………...3
Very common (Half or more) ……………….4
A young single woman 4
A young married woman 2
An older married woman 4
A widow 4
C.12 Now I’m interested in
whether certain types of women
are more likely to work for pay,
whether the work is on or off
family property. (The chart can
be completed by consensus of the
group.)
P8: The youth who are not yet married - these ladies do not exist in this village. 17 to 20
years the ladies leave the village they go to towns work as maids in people’s homes in
Kampala and also work in markets
P9: The young and married they work and they work hand in hand with the husband.
They are newly married and they want to be close to their husbands. Out of ten you find
2 working independently but the rest work with their husbands.
Those ones 9 out of ten work tirelessly.
The widow 10 out of 10 They have to work to sustain their families they have no way out
They are involved in farming – and also provide casual labour on farms.

16. Pre-coded questions (Nigeria)

17. Visual techniques facilitate discussion of complex
issues (Uganda)

18. How will the results be used?
•To reinforce the ongoing integration
of gender research into CRPs
•To improve targeting and design of
new technologies for impact on
gender equity
•To recommend strategies for
transformative interventions in
scaling out agricultural innovations