Integrating and strengthening gender and landless into SRI-LMB

1. Keo Kaneka
kkeo@oxfamamerica.org
SEMIL-SRI-LMB project

2.  SRI will have on two specific groups, women and
landless labourers (often relying on farm labour for
their livelihoods).
 Review of research and learning that has emerged
in recent years around gender and landless.
 prepare a basic synthesis of the learning and
recommendations from this material »
 These recommendations will constitute a basis to
refine the curriculum, support materials and MEL
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3. - Landless labourers are considered among the most
marginalized groups,
- They are poor with few productive assets, are
mostly under-employed and under-paid and have
little education and skills,
- 21.1% of Cambodian households were landless and
another 23.3% had less than 0.5 ha in 2008 , while
Lao’s stated that 15% of Lao households were
landless and another 28.5% had less than 1 ha in
2008 .
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4. - 68.1% of the population lives in rural areas, women
comprise 48.1% of the agricultural labour force on
average.
- The differentiated roles of men and women in
agriculture and rural households have received increased
attention from researchers, aid donors, and
policymakers in recent years.
- Majority of women are illiterate compare to men
- Women spent more time involve in farming but their
role in farming system have been over look.
- In current economic grow and in the situation of men’s
migration to other labour work , women is taking the
role as farm management ( Cambodia and Loa )
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5.  Thailand, latest accounts (USAID, 2009)
estimated that about 10% of farming
households were landless in 2005, and 17%
held under 0.8 hectares.
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6.  AT FPAR level :
 Establishing participatory gender action plans
(PGAP)
 Ensuring women inclusion at all stages of the
FPAR ( from selection to design for training topic)
 Mainstreaming gender sensitivity throughout the
project.
 Develop Women ‘s Employment Framework
through FPAR
Summary of recommendations on women’s empowerment through FFS
To be discussed on October 31, 2013 and adapted pending approval from project partners:
•Analytical framework: adapt components of the WEAI and Longwe frameworks and include these elements in the pre-
CFPAR and FPAR surveys,
•Conduct participatory analysis with FFS participants with a view or establishing Participatory Gender Action Plans
(PGAP) including:
Saving groups,
Book-keeping,
Participatory follow-up sessions,
Women trainings,
Province and national women trainings,
Post FPAR cycle review.
•Ensure women inclusion in FPAR through:
Revision FFS participants selection process,
Women’s equal access and visibility in all activities.
•Adopt an Overall Gender Action Plan (OGAP) to assess gender mainstreaming, in particular by:
Ensuring that staff and partners recruitment includes gender-sensitive criteria,
Building-up staff capacity on gender issues throughout the project, including by participating in networks
working on rural women’s rights and creating an internal gender working group,
Revising all relevant project documents and procedures.
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7.  AT FPAR level :
 Identifying landless labourers’ specifics in the
SEMIL-SRI-LMB project
 Anticipating the impacts of SRI introduction on
rice labour markets
 Implications on project-structure and MEL
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8.  AT POLICY &ADVOCACY LEVEL:
 Women as key aspect in any policy research and Analysis
 Identify Gender Gap in current policy environment (
Gender Gap is access to productive Agriculture land )
 Ensure issue of women farmer have been identified as
strong position in policy Recommendation ( ASDP 2014-
2018 Cambodia )
 Establish Relationship with Government ‘s Gender
mainstreaming ‘structure ( Lao PDR & Cambodia ).
 Promote Women in Public forum through strengthen
women farmer public speaking capacity ( Cambodia &
Lao )
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