LIVES gender equality strategy
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The document summarizes the gender equality strategy of the Livestock and Irrigation Value Chains for Ethiopian Smallholders (LIVES) project. Some key points: - LIVES aims to improve existing gender equality gaps across livestock and irrigation value chains by undertaking gender-sensitive analysis and ensuring gender inclusion in training. - Over the past three years, LIVES has provided training to over 18,000 value chain actors, with 18% being female. It has also coached and mentored over 10,000 households, with 18% being female-headed. - LIVES' strategies include involving husbands and wives in training, targeting female-headed households, introducing gender-friendly technologies, and providing business and marketing
LIVES gender equality strategy
- 1. LIVES gender equality strategy Ephrem Tessema e.tessema@cgiar.org P.O. box 5689 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia www.ilri.org Gender milestones (April 2013—September 2015) Concluding remarks 0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000 3500 Dairy Large ruminant Small ruminant Poultry Apiculture Vegetables Fruits Fodder Value chain actors trained between April 2013 and September 2015 by commodity and gender Input/service providers Input/service providers Producers Producers Processing and marketing businesses Processing and marketing businesses 0 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 12000 MHH FHH % of FHH participation Number of households coached and mentored Research has highlighted the crucial importance of the contribution of women to agricultural value chain development and governance in Ethiopia (Aregu et al. 2010). Further analysis has revealed that shortages of productive assets, capacity-related obstacles and socio-cultural norms negatively affect women’s farm productivity. In addition, women play a limited role in decision-making, and lack access to and control over income from the sale of agricultural produce. There is a great degree of consensus regarding the importance of capacity development, knowledge management and leadership skills in enhancing women's role in community structures, such as water and community-based livestock breeding associations. In the Livestock and Irrigation Value chains for Ethiopian Smallholders (LIVES) project—operating in 31 districts; 10 zones in four regions—gender is mainstreamed across value chains mainly to improve existing gender equality gaps. • Undertaking gender-sensitive value chain mapping and identifying livestock and irrigation commodities/value chain nodes through a gender lens • Ensuring gender inclusions are taken into account in the organizations of capacity development training involving project and public extension staff • Developing gender-sensitive and disaggregated planning and monitoring tools to track intervention outputs and outcomes • Setting gender targets to ensure that by the end of the project the participation of female-headed smallholder households and female value chain actors reaches or exceeds 20 and 25% respectively. • Conducting a household baseline survey and producing gender-disaggregated reports on livestock and irrigation value chains • Organizing gender-inclusive promotional activities to scale out and up project outcomes Key strategies Overview The graphs below indicate the gender achievements of LIVES interventions over the last three years: In enhancing women's participation in capacity building, knowledge management, value chain development, action research and the scaling up and out of gender-sensitive interventions, LIVES: • Involves couples (husbands/wives) in capacity building training; • Targets all household members in coaching and mentoring; • Targets female-headed households and women in male-headed households in capacity building training on commodities more beneficial to women; • Introduces gender-friendly livestock technologies; and • Offers capacity building training in business orientation and marketing to men and women smallholders. Gender capacity development training for public sector extension staff Graduate fellowship opportunity for extension and research system Capacity development for value chain actors and service providers Coaching and mentoring male- and female-headed households on innovations, technologies and specific topics and commodities Coaching and mentoring Input/service providers and marketing businesses coached and mentored Value chain actors trained on specific livestock and irrigation value chains Value chain actors involved in knowledge management intervention This poster is licensed for use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence. March 2016 120 33 22 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 Male Female Female % Gender Mainstreaming ToT Training and Coaching for Public Extention Staff Male Female Female % 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 M F % F 49 48 49 29 3 9 21 4 16 Public sector staff fellowships Extension staff Research staff Competitive fellowships 0 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 12000 M F % of female participation 10802 2376 18 4438 999 18222 166 43 Value chain actors trained Number of farmers trained Number of input/service providers trained Number of other value chain actors trained Value chain actors involved in Knowledge Management Interventions 0 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 6000 7000 8000 M F % F 752 222 23 7358 1995 21 3141 643 17 Value chain actors participated in KM interventions Study tours Field days Commodity platforms Immediate outcome Oromia Amhara SNNPR Tigray M F % F M F % F M F % F M F % F Number of public input/service providers coached and mentored 672 161 19 594 225 27 705 155 18 1484 366 20 Number of private input/service providers coached and mentored 100 18 15 81 28 26 76 47 38 85 28 25 Number of other value chain actors coached and mentored 49 11 18 33 27 45 214 60 22 134 74 36