gaap project conceptual framework presentation oct 13 2011
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INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
How project interventions can reduce the gender-asset gap
INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE
The Gender and Agricultural Assets Project (GAAP)
Objective: To reduce the gap between men’s and women’s control and ownership of assets, broadly defined, by evaluating how and how well agricultural development programs build women’s assets;
Three-year project, supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (mid 2010-2012);
Jointly lead by IFPRI and ILRI , including 8 core project collaborators working in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia;
Mix of qualitative and quantitative (Q2) expertise and evaluation methodologies;
Dreaming big and thinking ahead: Might be the start of a new paradigm in agricultural development programming!
Project Team
Agnes Quisumbing(IFPRI)
Jemimah Njuki (ILRI)
Nancy Johnson(ILRI)
Ruth Meinzen-Dick (IFPRI)
Dee Rubin (Cultural Practice LLP)
Amber Peterman (IFPRI)
Elizabeth Waithanji (ILRI)
Julia Behrman (IFPRI)
Shalini Roy (IFPRI)
Ginette Minot (IFPRI)
More information at: http://genderassets.wordpress.com
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3 types of projects included in the portfolio
1. Projects that transfer (or facilitate acquisition of) individual assets: • Landesa (India—Land);
• BRAC-Targeting the Ultra Poor (Bangladesh—Livestock);
• Land O’ Lakes (Mozambique—Dairy cows);
• KickStart (Tanzania and Kenya—micro-irrigation pumps).
2. Projects that build infrastructure and provide equipment to increase agricultural productivity and income:• CARE-Bangladesh (and its twin, EADD—training, group formation);
3. Projects that develop improved crop varieties and agricultural practices:• Cereal Systems in South Asia (India—rice);
• Orange-fleshed Sweet Potato (Uganda—new variety);
• Helen Keller International (Burkina Faso—vegetables).
Asset Transfer Projects: Common Themes
Understanding cultural concepts of ownership (what does it mean to own or control an asset?);
Identifying and understanding gender-specific barriers to asset acquisition and control;
Measuring impact of asset transfers on men’s and women’s assets and the gender asset gap;
Methods of increasing women’s ownership of /control over key assets over time (even if asset transferred to her, no guarantee she has control; if asset transfer is not targeted, examining if there are gender biases in asset acquisition and how to overcome these).
MoneyMaker! Treadle pump in Kenya
Unpacking the “Gender Box”
Photo credit: Agnes Quisumbing6
Helps identify HOW:
• Gendered asset distribution affects outcomes
• Outcome of agricultural programs differs by gender
• Building assets takes place in a way that is gendered
Guides attention to key processes for evaluation
Provides basis for comparison and learning across different case studies
Why have a conceptual framework?
Women and men have separate assets, activities, consumption, etc.
Households also have some joint assets, activities, consumption, etc.
Shading of each component as a reminder that we need to consider gender—separation and jointness in each
Women’s Men’sJOINT
Each component is gendered
Livelihood
Strategies Full Incomes
Consumption
Savings/
Investment
Well-being
Shocks
Context: Ecological, Social, Economic, Political factors, etc.
Women Joint Men
Assets
Legend:
♀ ♂Context
Agroecology
Location
Institutions
Markets
Gender relations
etc.
♀ ♂Assets
•Natural
•Physical
•Financial
•Human
•Social
•Political
•Enable livelihoods
•Resist shocks
•Direct effect on well-being
♀ ♂Livelihood Strategies
•What are the livelihood options available to
women and men?
•What assets do those livelihoods require?
•Are women (or men) precluded from good
livelihoods by lack of assets?
♀ ♂Shocks
•What are the major shocks that affect
women, men, and households?
•How do women, men respond to shocks?
•What role do assets play in responding to
shocks?
♀ ♂Full Income
• Includes cash and direct consumption
• What affects the income women and men
earn?
• What affects the control of income within
the household?
♀ ♂Consumption
• Includes food and nonfood
• How are women’s, men’s, and joint
income used for different types of
consumption by different family members?
• What affects decisions on consumption?
(Does control of assets play a role?)
♀ ♂Savings/Investment
• This feeds back to + or – asset
accumulation
•How are women’s, men’s, and joint
income used for different types of
investment by different family members?
• What affects decisions on investment?
• Are there enough mechanisms for women
to build assets?
♀ ♂Well-Being
•Health
•Nutritional status
•Time use
•Stress
•Empowerment
•etc.
Livelihood
Strategies Full Incomes
Consumption
Savings/
Investment
Well-being
Shocks
Context: Ecological, Social, Economic, Political factors, etc.
Women Joint Men
Assets
Legend: