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Gender in Value ChainsMeeting with Management and Staff involved in agricultural value chains
Objective session
Objective session • Put the development and implementation of a gender
strategy explicitly on the agenda of the organization• Start of a trajectory to equip staff for gender sensitive value
chain development • Action planning• Ultimate Goal: Better functioning chains of which men and
women benefit equally
Program
9h – 10 h30 • Discuss experiences with the e-module• Review some theoretical concepts
10h30-10h45 • Coffee break
10h45 – 12h30• Discuss the current situation in the organisation • Follow us how to introduce a gender responsive way of
working
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Getting to know each other
• Introduce your self (if necessary)
• What was your most recent experiences with gender in your work
• Which question would you like to get answers?
Experiences with the e-module
• What did you like about the e-module?• What did you learn?• What was difficult?• Etc..
Topics of this session
• Farmers – men and women – sexe and gender• Gender based roles, • Gender based control over resources • Gender concepts (gender equality, gender equity, women’s
empowerment) • Gender strategies (gender transformative, gender aware and
gender neutral) • What is gender mainstreaming and why do it it? • Key elements of gender mainstreaming in value chain
development • Action planning
Sexe and gender
The real farmer
The difference between sexe and gender
Importance of gender
Gender based: • Roles • Control over resources
Gender objectives and approaches
Gender objectives• Gender equity • Gender equality • Women’s empowerment
Gender appraches of organisations• Gender neutral (or gender blind)• Gender aware • Gender transformative
Gender mainstreaming
• What is gender mainstreaming • Why do it it? – Business – Social justice– Food security and poverty alleviation
Key elements of gender mainstreaming
• Know her (gender sensitive value chain analysis)• Design for her (gender sensitive interventions)• Be accountable to her
Towards a gender sensitive approach
Management support: Experience has learned that the willingness of staff to change their way of working largely depends on support of the management
Gender agenda: Part of this is that the management explicit puts the development and implementation of a gender strategy explicitly on the agenda of the organization
Goal: Better functioning chains of which men and women benefit equally
Objective: Equip and support staff to apply a gender sensitive approach in value chain development
State of the art
Name How gender sensitive is your organisation/ project?
Objective What needs to be done
What do you need?
Continuous learning
Develop a vision on gender
mainstreaming in Value chains
Training of staff
Introduction of guidelines,
approaches and tools
Implement gender sensitive
interventions
Monitoring, evaluation and
learning
Possible results
• Organisational Gender policy and strategy• Gender sensitive value chain analysis• Gender sensitive interventions at the level of households,
producer organisations, small entrepreneurs, CSR policy of large enterprises, certification schemes etc…
• Monitoring, evaluation and report: Quantitative data collection, collect and share stories, publish results etc.
Time schedule Gender trajectoryTiming Activity Participants Structural improvement
in organisation/ project
Management support
• Involve all staff (not only the gender specialist)
• Look what is already happening and appreciate this
• Actively invite all staff to take a role, encourage creativity• Recognize that the process is not easy support staff to solve
problems
• Emphasize structural improvement as opposed to one off
events
• After this trajectory keep gender on the agenda
Create a support base for the change process
1. Monitor and share positive results (use monitoring system)
2. Make an action plan
3. Support departments/ projects involved in the trajectory
4. Ensure formalization of gender policy and strategy
5. Monitor progress
Thanks for your attention
and success!!