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Gender Transformative Approaches: Big ideas
- 1. A Gender TransformativeApproach: Why, What and How? Cynthia McDougall and Workshop Team Seeds of Change Conference Canberra, April 2, 2019
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- 3. Questioning impacts of 'businessas usual' gender in development interventions… 2012 2015 2018
- 4. …Limitations, not necessarily systemicor sustained, backlash?
- 5. Conceptualizing a complementaryway forward: ‘Gender transformative approach’ 2012 2015 2018
- 6. Building evidence base:how gender norms shape innovation in Ag/NRM 2012 2015 2018
- 7. Piloting (research on)gender transformative strategies in 2012 2015 2018 Smallscale aquaculture technologies (Bangladesh) Reducing postharvest losses (Zambia) Micro-credit (Zambia)
- 8. 2012 2015 2018 Growingdemand for transformative approach
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- 11. For what? More fundamental,systemic and enduring positive outcomes Pro-active mitigation of potential backlash
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- 13. Transformation of what? Theunderlying causes of gender inequality
- 14. Transformation of what? ….of“power dynamics and structures that act to reinforce gendered inequalities” (Hillenbrand et al. 2015, 10).
- 15. Transformation of what? Norms that perpetuate and reproduce inequalities
- 16. How society values womenand men How society says women and men should behave
- 17. How society values womenand men How society says women and men should behave The armpit can never be higher than the shoulder… (Adage, Zambia Assessment, WorldBank 2004) “
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- 19. Yet historically genderbarriers addressed by…
- 20. Participation What capacities womenhave What assets women have
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- 24. It’s not aboutthe tools
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- 26. Spark ‘criticalconsciousness’ through social learning processes
- 27. Fish are thelast ones to know about the water“
- 28. Spark ‘criticalconsciousness’ through social learning processes Catalysing self-awareness of the norms and dynamics in which we are immersed…
- 29. Spark ‘criticalconsciousness’ through social learning processes Catalysing self-awareness of the norms and dynamics in which we are immersed… and their effects
- 30. Engaging womenand men together as actors in locally-driven shifts towards equality
- 31. Jointly engaged, bothagents of change
- 32. How society values womenand men How society says women and men should behave What women do What women have
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- 34. gender.cgiar.org We would liketo acknowledge all CGIAR Research Programs and Centers for supporting the participation of their gender scientists to the Seeds of Change conference. Photo: Neil Palmer/IWMI
Editor's Notes
- #2 In the next 10 mins….
- #4 B-a-Usual (accommodative) approaches – working around norms, such as those that limit women’s mobility, backyard ponds, access to credit via womens’ groups…
- #5 Limitations: EG from seaweed: yes get fish but still not control own time, decisions as equals; Ie: systemic: women in the project report increased empowerment but it is largely bound to those women; Sustained: project ends and ‘apparent empowerment’ by end of project reduces/reverts once the project engagement or incentives end; not always positive: eg savings groups or women targeted interventions: backlash: violence
- #6 To complement gender accommodative approaches & build on decades of progress in other areas
- #7 Started in 2013, piloting in 2014: building ev to inform CG and donors re the need for GTA
- #8 Ie: systemic: women in the project report increased empowerment but it is largely bound to those women; Sustained: project ends and ‘apparent empowerment’ by end of project reduces/reverts once the project engagement or incentives end; not always positive: eg savings groups or women targeted interventions: backlash: violence
- #9 Ie: systemic: women in the project report increased empowerment but it is largely bound to those women; Sustained: project ends and ‘apparent empowerment’ by end of project reduces/reverts once the project engagement or incentives end; not always positive: eg savings groups or women targeted interventions: backlash: violence
- #12 E.g., so increase income and abil to control own time, be an equal decision maker, etc
- #16 Not of technols, not of prod systems or markets…. And not individual. [[iceberg: have (assets) , do (attend) vs think: assumptions, beliefs, ways of understanding the world)]]
- #25 [[are various ‘tools’ connected to processes and areas of Ag/Dev/SSF/Aq: SLIDE GTA + [[]]
- #26 Focus instead on 2 principles – mechanisms that all are tapping into: important because…
- #27 i) Critical consciousness: awareness. It is different from Gender-Responsive technologies; different from empowerment of women focusing on agency. Not the same as ‘tools’, but can leverage this by using a variety of tools/ways (eg…) , including very purposive facilitation. WF cases show range of strategies/tools: video, critical consciousness raising exercises/experiential games, and community theatre. I leveraged it via participatory monitoring focusing on equity in comm forestry…
- #28 Critical consciousness = awareness of that in which we are immersed
- #33 =Closing Reminder
- #34 Introduce WorldFish Gender Transformative Case Studies and hand over….