The document provides an update on a livestock and fish research program focused on gender and society, detailing strategies to enhance access for women and marginalized groups to markets and resources. It outlines actions taken in 2013, including a failed proposal for gender transformative research and the development of tools for integrating gender analysis in value chain assessments. Future plans involve fundraising and exploring the role of men and masculinity in transforming employment opportunities within these sectors.

1. Update on Livestock and Fish research
program output 3: Gender and society
Paula Kantor (WorldFish)
Livestock and Fish Gender Working Group Workshop and Planning Meeting
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 14-18 October 2013

2. Objective of Output 3
• “Strategies and approaches that increase women’s and
marginalized groups’ entitlement to access markets and control
resources, technologies, labor, power and the benefits of their
work”
• Focuses on wider social context within which a value chain
functions: how well does it enable equitable participation, on
good terms, and control over the benefits?
• Entitlement is key:
– own sense of entitlement;
– recognition by others of women’s and other marginalized
groups’ capacities and claims to engage in markets;
– translation of society’s recognition into the way formal and
informal institutions allocate opportunities and resources

3. Approaches to gender integration (www.igwg.org)

4. 2013 actions
• Prepared one proposal for gender transformative
research, to the Gender Innovation Lab with a
series of L&F partners (Uganda, Tanzania &
Ethiopia)
– Unsuccessful, but can be pitched to other donors
• Drafted tools that integrate GTAs in value chain
analysis
– Need to be field tested in 2014
• Plans for a paper on the social embeddedness of
value chains and relevance of GTAs to value
chain performance and distribution of outcomes

5. Looking ahead
• Fundraising ideas (AGRA, BMGF, IDRC, ESRC…)
– Revise GIL proposal and resubmit
– Role of men & masculinity in fostering WEE through
livestock and fish VCs (Anna Sikira)
– Potential for achieving ‘transformative employment’
in livestock & fish VCs (with IDS)
• Examine the conditions under which VC employment has
been transformative for poor women: for which
women, under what conditions?
– Gender, risk and technology adoption studies