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Introduction:
RNA interference (RNAi) or Post-Transcriptional Gene Silencing (PTGS) is an important biological process for modulating eukaryotic gene expression.
It is highly conserved process of posttranscriptional gene silencing by which double stranded RNA (dsRNA) causes sequence-specific degradation of mRNA sequences.
dsRNA-induced gene silencing (RNAi) is reported in a wide range of eukaryotes ranging from worms, insects, mammals and plants.
This process mediates resistance to both endogenous parasitic and exogenous pathogenic nucleic acids, and regulates the expression of protein-coding genes.
What are small ncRNAs?
micro RNA (miRNA)
short interfering RNA (siRNA)
Properties of small non-coding RNA:
Involved in silencing mRNA transcripts.
Called “small” because they are usually only about 21-24 nucleotides long.
Synthesized by first cutting up longer precursor sequences (like the 61nt one that Lee discovered).
Silence an mRNA by base pairing with some sequence on the mRNA.
Discovery of siRNA?
The first small RNA:
In 1993 Rosalind Lee (Victor Ambros lab) was studying a non- coding gene in C. elegans, lin-4, that was involved in silencing of another gene, lin-14, at the appropriate time in the
development of the worm C. elegans.
Two small transcripts of lin-4 (22nt and 61nt) were found to be complementary to a sequence in the 3' UTR of lin-14.
Because lin-4 encoded no protein, she deduced that it must be these transcripts that are causing the silencing by RNA-RNA interactions.
Types of RNAi ( non coding RNA)
MiRNA
Length (23-25 nt)
Trans acting
Binds with target MRNA in mismatch
Translation inhibition
Si RNA
Length 21 nt.
Cis acting
Bind with target Mrna in perfect complementary sequence
Piwi-RNA
Length ; 25 to 36 nt.
Expressed in Germ Cells
Regulates trnasposomes activity
MECHANISM OF RNAI:
First the double-stranded RNA teams up with a protein complex named Dicer, which cuts the long RNA into short pieces.
Then another protein complex called RISC (RNA-induced silencing complex) discards one of the two RNA strands.
The RISC-docked, single-stranded RNA then pairs with the homologous mRNA and destroys it.
THE RISC COMPLEX:
RISC is large(>500kD) RNA multi- protein Binding complex which triggers MRNA degradation in response to MRNA
Unwinding of double stranded Si RNA by ATP independent Helicase
Active component of RISC is Ago proteins( ENDONUCLEASE) which cleave target MRNA.
DICER: endonuclease (RNase Family III)
Argonaute: Central Component of the RNA-Induced Silencing Complex (RISC)
One strand of the dsRNA produced by Dicer is retained in the RISC complex in association with Argonaute
ARGONAUTE PROTEIN :
1.PAZ(PIWI/Argonaute/ Zwille)- Recognition of target MRNA
2.PIWI (p-element induced wimpy Testis)- breaks Phosphodiester bond of mRNA.)RNAse H activity.
MiRNA:
The Double-stranded RNAs are naturally produced in eukaryotic cells during development, and they have a key role in regulating gene expression .
Spiraling up and down: Mapping rural women’s empowerment in Ethiopia
1. Spiraling up and down: Mapping rural women’s
empowerment in Ethiopia
Annet Mulema (ILRI) , Brenda Boonabaana (MUK), Liza Debevec (IWMI) ,
Likimyelesh Nigussie (IWMI) , Mihret Alemu (FAO) and Susan Kaaria (FAO)
CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research
Annual Scientific Conference and Capacity Development Workshop
ILRI, Addis Ababa, 25-28 September 2018
3. Introduction
• Women’s empowerment an integral component of
national policies and development processes
• There is still need to understand how agricultural
interventions are engaging women, and the
transformation occurring in society
• There is a limited understanding of how
empowerment happens and the preconditions
necessary for women to be empowered
4. Introduction…
• Examined how women engaged in the United
Nations Joint Program on “Accelerating progress
towards Rural Women’s Economic Empowerment’
become empowered (UNJP-RWEE)
• Assessed women’s empowerment as a process and
outcome using the Community Capitals Framework
• Process – changes happening in women’s lives
• Outcome – freedom to control and influence their
lives and future
5. The empowerment concept
• Entails transformation of power relations, gaining control of
the sources of power (Batliwala 1994)
• Process by which those who have been denied the ability to
make strategic life choices acquire such ability (Kabeer 1999)
• Empowerment tackles systematic constraints on women and
girls’ choice and voice
• We analyze women’s control over resources, participation in
decision making, expansion of choices, independence, self
worth and confidence, and the enabling environment
6. The Community Capitals Framework (CCF)
• The CCF consists of 7 capitals: social, physical,
human, financial, natural, cultural and physical/built
• Provides a systematic and holistic way to analyze
development in a systems perspective by
• identifying the assets in each capital (stock)
• the type of capital invested (flow) and
• the interaction between the capitals and the resulting
impact across capitals
• A capital is a resource or asset that can be used,
invested or exchanged to create new resources
8. Operationalizing the CCF
• The use of assets in one capital
positively or negatively affects
other capitals
• Spiraling up: Assets gained
increase the likelihood that
other assets will be gained
• Spiraling down: Inadequacy in
assets negatively affects
accumulation of other assets
• Both affect the process and
degree of empowerment
Spiralingup
Spiralingdown
10. The United Nations Joint Program on Rural
Women’s Economic Empowerment (UNJP-RWEE)
• UNJP-RWEE is a global initiative of the three Rome-
based UN Agencies - FAO, WFP, IFAD, and UN Women
• Program countries: Ethiopia, Guatemala, Kyrgyzstan,
Liberia, Nepal, Niger and Rwanda.
• In Ethiopia, the UN agencies, in partnership with
government and other national stakeholders
designed the program
• Operates in two regions: Oromia (agrarian) and Afar
(pastoral)
11. UNJP-RWEE approach
• Enhances rural women’s livelihoods, food and
nutrition security, decision making capabilities by:
• Fostering women’s participation in producers’ groups and
leadership
• Enabling women’s access to financial resources through SACCOs
• Capacity development on various aspects
• Transformation unequal power relations
• Providing improved and labor saving technologies
• Supporting development of gender policies
12. The study sites (Oromia region)
Woredas
(districts)
Treatment
villages
(kebeles)
Control villages
(kebeles)
Remarks
Yaya
Gulele
woreda
• Iluna Dire
• Nono
Chemerie
• Dedete Tege Sites are remote
Adami
Tulu
Woreda
• Adune
Germama
• Aneno Shisho
• Gulanta Boke Sites are more
integrated and
closer to the
urban trading
centers
13. Research design and data collection
• Qualitative study, July-August
2017
• Group discussions with
female beneficiaries, male-
indirect beneficiaries and non
project participants (control)
• Proportional piling/scoring
• A plenary session held with
both women and men to
validate the emerging findings
14. Data collection…
• In-depth interviews with empowered and disempowered
women and men to capture life histories
• Key informant interviews with:
• Project implementers (at woreda level)
• kebele leaders
• A total of 189 women and 196 men participated in group
discussions and interviews
15. Qualitative data collection tools (adapted pro-WEAI
qualitative protocol)
• Understanding of empowerment
• Livelihood matrix
• Access to and control over resources
• Seasonal calendar, gender division of labor, decision-making
• Life histories
• The community profile
• Project operations checklist
17. Social capital – Networks, norms of
reciprocity, and mutual trust
• Acting collectively in
economic groups
• Build trust through joint
savings
• Access external services
• Receive moral support
• Building good relationships
for negotiation & decision
making
• The strong and weak ties
18. Human capital – knowledge, skills and
capabilities
• Knowledge acquisition
and utilization
• Adult integrated literacy
program
• Invest in improved
technologies
• Participation in decision
making
• Enhanced self-esteem
and dignity
19. Financial capital – income, savings, credit
• Diversification of
livelihoods
• Secure and control own
savings
• Access to RWEE credit
– Low interest rate
– Does not require collateral
– Short pay back period,
small size of loan and
misalignment with
agricultural calendar
20. Cultural capital – action, beliefs and
language
• Shift in gendered division of labor
• Increased workload
• Increased mobility and women working outside
• Not appreciated in remote communities
• Threated masculinity and social deviance
• Appreciation of women as farmers - a contested
terrain
21. Political capital – voice and influence in the
community
• Participation of women on community
leadership committees e.g. village cabinet and in
meetings
• Women helping others to change
• Few women able to voice their concerns
The community respects me because I do activities that most women cannot
do. In meetings, even the women give me a chair and they say…please sit with
the men. When I visit a home, I am given the man’s chair. I am a woman who
does not sit behind a man. I sit beside a man. I also teach community
members the advantage of saving (40-year old woman, Abune Germama)
22. Natural capital – land, livestock, crops
• Acquisition of livestock
through purchase and its
control
• Women have autonomy
over smaller resources e.g.
vegetables, chicken or up
to 20kg of grain
• Land certification with
spouses’ names and photo
23. Physical capital -processing equipment,
roads, health centers, water system, etc
• Access to labor saving
technologies
• Water sources
• Electricity
• Communication
• Nature of roads
• The stock of assets not
well developed
24. Spiraling up and down in empowerment
Built
capital
Natural
capital
Cultural
capital
Human
capital
Social
capital
Political
capital
Financial
capital
Empowerment
Built
capital
Natural
capital
Cultural
capital
Human
capital
Social
capital
Political
capital
Financial
capital
Empowerment
Built
capital
Natural
capital
Cultural
capital
Human
capital
Social
capital
Political
capital
Financial
capital
Empowerment
25. Conclusion
• Women’s empowerment
• Can be attained by strategically building social, human
and financial capitals
• follows a process of upward and downward spiral in
the stock of capitals
• cannot be achieved simply by increasing stocks of
assets within a specific capital
• requires an increase in the flow of assets that build
stock in other capitals
• Requires a strategic, integrated and multi-disciplinary
approach
26. This presentation is licensed for use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence.
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women’s empowerment has become a centerpiece of many development programs and government policies,
In Ethiopia, women and youth empowerment is one of the nine pillars of the GTPII
changes happening in women’s lives - strengthening their voice and choice and taking more control over their lives and futures
the degree of freedom women and girls have, to control and influence their lives and futures
Sources of power – resources (such as physical, human, intellectual, financial and self) and ideologies (beliefs, values and attitudes)
mpowerment tackles systematic constraints on women and girls’ choice and voice
Disempowerment manifests through unequal distribution of resources, unequal decision-making power, low self esteem, discriminatory laws and policies, and patriarchal gender norms and practices
Communities harness capitals at their disposal in pursuit of livelihoods strategies and outcomes
The use of assets in one capital can have a positive or negative effect over other capitals. The degradation of assets within one capital can negatively affect one or more capitals.
About 500 beneficiaries in Afar
And 1500 beneficiaries in Oromia
Program outcomes:
Improved food and nutrition security of rural women.
Improved and sustained livelihood of rural women through income generating interventions, skill development and improved access to resources.
Decision making voices of women strengthened through enhanced leadership and participation in rural institutions.
Gender-responsive policy environment.
SK -- suggest that you include a few bullets on sampling – remember Liza's extensive table -- Maybe we can add the numbers
Talk about data analysisNB: Each tool had specific questions to guide and elicit in-depth discussions – these were recorded verbatim, voice recorded and transcribed
Women save about 20 birr/2weeks
Mobility varies with marital status, trust between spouses, level of education, wealth status
Women can not publicly claim ownership of assets like oxen.
Threatened masculinity confronts women’s positive change