1. Women comprise 43% of the agricultural workforce in developing countries and account for two-thirds of the world's 600 million poor livestock keepers. However, women have limited access to extension services, technologies, and markets. 2. Integrating gender considerations throughout the project cycle, from design to implementation to evaluation, is important for ensuring gender equality and equity outcomes. 3. ILRI aims to mainstream gender in its organizational structure, research, and partnerships to promote equality of opportunities and outcomes for women and men in the livestock sector. Key areas of focus include documenting gender evidence, collecting sex-disaggregated data, and strategic research on topics like gender and value

1. Jemimah Njuki
International Women’s Day, ILRI, Nairobi, 8 March 2012

2.  Gender: Refers to the socially  Gender Mainstreaming: Is a
constructed roles and status strategy for making
of women and men, girls and women's, as well as men's,
boys. It is a set of culturally concerns and experiences
specific characteristics an integral dimension in the
defining the social behaviour design, implementation,
of women and men, boys monitoring and evaluation
and girls, and the of policies and programmes
relationships between them. in all political, economic
and social spheres so that
women and men benefit
equally and inequality is not
perpetuated.

4. F e m a le S h a r e o f t h e A g r ic u lt u r a l L a b o u r F o r c e
Women, on average, comprise 43% of the agricultural labour force in developing
countries and account for an estimated two-thirds of the world's 600 million poor
livestock keepers.
FAO and Farming First 2012

5. A c c e s s t o E x t e n s io n
S e r v ic e s
Because of cultural attitudes,
discrimination and a lack of
recognition for their role in food
production, women enjoy limited
to no benefits from extension
and training in new crop
varieties and technologies.
FAO and Farming First 2012

6. G e n d e r Yie ld G a p
The vast majority of studies
suggest that women are just
as efficient as men and would
achieve the same yields if
they had equal access to
productive resources and
services. Bridging this gender
yield gap would boost food
and nutrition security globally.
FAO and Farming First 2012

7. A c c e s s to M a rk e ts
Increasing women's share of
household income has broad
benefits to improved rural
livelihoods. Improving
transportation and infrastructure
constraints and encouraging rural
women's participation in farmer
organisations and cooperatives can
help both to achieve economies of
scale in access to markets as well
as reducing isolation and building
confidence, leadership and security.
FAO and Farming First 2012

10.  To enable ILRI to have a systematic approach to
promoting gender equality / equity at institutional and
research level.
 To define the role that ILRI will play in stimulating and
facilitating efforts, both in-house and with partners at the
national, regional and global levels, to overcome
constraints and take advantage of opportunities to
promote gender equality and equity within the livestock
sub sector
 It is a reflection of the increasing awareness that gender
equality and equity are important prerequisites for
agricultural growth and sustainable development.

11.  Previous efforts in integrating gender in ILRI
proposals—often not carried through to
implementation, monitoring and evaluation
 Lack of clarity on where responsibility and
accountability for integration of gender in
projects and programs lies.
 Even where there is willingness to integrate
gender, the practical skills and guidelines for
doing so, are usually lacking—often leading to
gender “paragraphs”

12.  To increase the quality, efficiency and impacts of
ILRI’s work in livestock development.
 To promote equality of opportunity and equity in
outcomes between women and men in the livestock
sub-sector at local, national, regional, and global
levels.
 To ensure that human equality, equity and rights
are respected across gender, that there is good
gender representation in ILRI staffing, decision
making positions and there is active and balanced
participation by both women and men in ILRI’s
policies and work.

15. Using the Project Cycle
 Integration of gender into
projects, programs and
activities should use the
project cycle to ensure
that gender is integrated
in all key points of the
project.
 An easy and practical way
of integrating gender in
projects /programmes Figure 1: The Project Cycle

16. Seven critical areas in which projects, programmes should integrate
gender within the project cycle..

18. Integrating gender in ILRI’s organizational
structure and culture

20. Three Key Areas
i. Documenting existing evidence on livestock
 Review of evidence on Gender and Livestock to
inform targeting and research
• Systematizing collection of gender
disaggregated data on productivity, value
chains, livelihoods
 Develop key gender and livelihood indicators for use
in M&E and Impact Assessment in all ILRI programs
and project.
v. Strategic research on gender and livestock
Current priorities (based on CRPs)
 Gender and value chains
 Gender and livestock technology development
 Gender and assets
 Gender, livestock, nutrition and health
 Gender and climate change

22.  Research partnerships
◦ International: IFPRI, ICRW, UN women, FAO
◦ Regional /National: ASARECA, NARS, Universities
 Implementation partnerships
◦ Mainly with NGOs
 Information dissemination and
communication
◦ Electronic (blogs etc)
◦ Networks (Gender and Livestock Network,
Gender and Agriculture Network)
◦ Biennial conference
◦ Online gender and agriculture journal

23. Objective 1: To promote Objective 2: To increase the Objective 3: To ensure that
equality of opportunity and quality, efficiency and human equality, equity and
outcomes between women impacts of ILRIs work in rights are respected across
and men in the livestock livestock development gender, that there is good
sub-sector gender representation in
ILRI staffing….
A narrowing of gender The extent to which women are Integration of gender-related
disparities in the adoption of involved in the livestock sector indicators in ILRI’s performance
livestock technologies, access to and in ILRI programs in terms of evaluation and reward systems
services, information and inputs decision making, production,
marketing, or processing is in Increased number of women
A narrowing of gender proportion to their numbers in participating in science in ILRI
disparities in outcomes the sector and partner institutions, and
including nutrition status, asset advancing to leadership
ownership, and intra-household Increased availability of sex positions (and to exceed 30%)
decision making disaggregated data for decision
Improved gender equity in making in livestock for ILRI, The extent to which ILRI policies
access to and control of benefits other CGIAR centres and and programs are gender
from livestock and associated partners responsive
resources and interventions
Increased capacity and expertise
to develop and implement
gender responsive agricultural
innovations, especially for
smallholders by ILRI staff and
partners

24. Should gender be a specific focus of work or can
we assume that our work will lead to equitable
outcomes for men, women and other
marginalized groups? How can we more
effectively mainstream gender in our work?
Who should have the responsibility for integrating
gender in our work? How do we ensure
accountability by staff for gender outcomes from
our research and other work at ILRI?