Presented by Kathleen E. Colverson at the Workshop on Integrating Livelihoods and Rights in Livestock Microcredit and Value Chain Development Programs for Empowering Women, ILRI Nairobi, 25 February 2013

1. Overview of the gender strategy of the
International Livestock Research
Institute(ILRI)
Presented by Kathleen E. Colverson at a workshop on
“Integrating livelihoods and rights in livestock microcredit and value
chain development programs for empowering women”
ILRI Nairobi, 25 February 2013

2. ILRIGenderStrategy
• Promotes equality of opportunity and outcomes between women
and men in the livestock sub-sector at local, national, regional, and
global levels
• Increases the quality, efficiency and impacts of ILRI’s work in
livestock development
• Ensures 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 work
ILRI Gender Strategy 2012

3. ILRI’s Research Focus
“More milk, meat and fish by and for the poor”
To sustainably increase the productivity of
small-scale livestock and fish systems to
increase the availability and affordability of
animal-source foods for poor consumers and,
in doing so, reduce poverty through greater
participation by the poor along the whole
value chains for animal-source foods

4. ILRI’sgender work- Livestockand Fish
A gender strategy was developed with CGIAR partners
and shared on the L&F wiki in December 2012
http://livestock-fish-wikispaces.com/Gender+and+Learning

5. L&FGenderOutcome
“Poor women, men and marginalized
groups have improved and more
equitable access to affordable animal
source foods through gender
equitable interventions”

6. Gender Strategy
• Output 1: Increased gender capacity within CGIAR,
partner organizations, and value chain actors to
diagnose and overcome gender based constraints
within value chains
• Output 2: Strategies and approaches developed
through which women and marginalized groups
improve the nature and level of participation in
livestock and fish value chains

7. Gender Strategy
• Output 3: Strategies and approaches that
increase women and marginalized groups
entitlement to access markets and control
resources, technologies, labor, power and the
benefits of their work
• Output 4: Strategies and approaches to promote
increased level and equity in animal source food
consumption within poor households

8. Today’s workshop output
“A strategy of integrating livelihoods and
rights for empowering women and their
households through livestock microcredit
and value chains”