ATA thematic discussion on gender presented by SNV Ethiopia · SNV Ethiopia We focus on 3 sectors...
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ATA thematic discussion
on gender presented by
SNV Ethiopia
10 April 2019
We work in
26 countries
across three continentsWith a global team of over
1200 experts
33% Women
90% of our professionals
are nationals of the country in which they work
SNV global
We focus on 3 sectors which are
fundamental to human development
In 2017 we implemented
150 projects
We were founded in
1965
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In 2017 improved lives of
6.4 M People
SNV Ethiopia
We focus on 3 sectors
Active in
365+ Woredas
We make a lasting
difference for millions of
people living in poverty
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210 national /global staff
97% national staff
29% female staff
We have full fledged
3+ satellite offices
Target Beneficiaries
4.2 million People
Currently, we implement
17 projects
Started operation in
1974
Current Projects!
Agriculture (8)
SEECCS: RVO
NBPE II: 100,000 people GoE & DGIS/Hivos
Energy (3)
SSH4A (Este): 248,175 People DfID
TWASH: 2 million people USAID
WASH (5)
NBPE+: 180,000 people GoE & EU
IAP: 1.2 million people SIDA
GYEM: 15,000 HHs Comic Relief
Horti-LIFE: 30,000 PeopleEKN
GRAD II: 97,900 HHsUSAID
BRIDGE: 120,000 HHs EKN
LI-WAY: 200,000 PeopleSida
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iWET: 800,000 people AFAS Foundation
RISE: 5,000 PeopleEKN
Institutional san: 25,120 people
VEI
WASHTra: 1.2 million peopleFHF
2SCALE:DGIS
Balancing Benefits
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Gender and Youth Empowerment in horticulture Markets
• Project period: February 2016 – June 2019
• Donor: Comic Relief
• Commodity: Horticulture value chains
• 5 outcomes: productivity, marketing, cooperation strengthening, youth
employment and gender empowerment
• Partners: unions and their cooperatives
o Meki Batu, Oromia Region
o Timret, SNNPR
• Beneficiaries: 15,000
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Revisiting women
empowerment through a
cultural lens
An in-depth analysis of empowerment
methodologies in horticulture in rural Ethiopia
Authors: Sarah De Smet; Smaranda Boros
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Research• Collaboration between SNV Ethiopia and Vlerick Business School through ICP
programme (prof. dr. Smaranda Boros)
• Research on PALS in the GYEM project with the objective to:
o Assess the validity of the intervention
o Assess the impact of the intervention
o Assess the unforeseen side-effects of the intervention
o Draw lessons about the larger system
• Data collection:
o Semi-structured interviews
o Observation in the field
o Assessment checklist of farmers trained in PALS
o Own reports from field activities
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Theoretical background• Women empowerment:
o A process by which disempowered women acquire the ability to make strategic life
choices (Kabeer, 1999)
o Increase choice and agency at individual level AND address structural inequalities
o External facilitators needed to challenge power inequalities
o Avoid cultural and value based tensions + approach social change as open ended
• Power distance:
o Hofstede (1984): the degree to which individuals, groups, societies accept
inequalities in power as unavoidable, legitimate or functional
o Implications on perception of justice, on emotions, on behaviour and leadership
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PALS: Participatory Action Learning for Sustainability• Gender is simple and “means women and men treating each other like equal
human beings with equal human rights and social responsibilities”
• Catalyse discussion, reflection and motivation from ‘within’ the participants
themselves – based on drawing tools
• Key principles:
o Start with vision and the positive
o Everyone can be a leader
o Action from day 1
o Inclusion
o Facilitation from the back
o Make it fun
• Advocacy and policy
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PALS Upscaling
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Framework for analysis: Van Tulder model
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Findings• Mission:
o PALS: empowerment in order to reach social justice
o Community: “Her son questioned the utility of the training, ‘if she did not receive
the water pump she wants’”
• Input:
o Selection of the champions
▪ Men and women from different households: unequal sharing
▪ People with ‘issues’ (70%) mixed with people without ‘issues’: inspirational for others but risk of failure
threatens credibility – gap in pace and understanding during the workshops
▪ 4 champions from 5 different villages: little coherence at times, too low number to be influential
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Findings• Throughput:
o Facilitation from the back and do
not hold the pen of anyone else:
▪ Staff level
▪ Creative strategies at farmer level
• Output:
o Champions understanding of the
steps of the tools was mixed
o Champions able to provide content
to the the tools was mixed
o Champions sharing with peers and
stakeholders was very animated
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Findings• Outcome
o Many changes at micro level:
▪ Increase of savings (56% women, 50%
men)
▪ New source of income (60% women)
▪ New investments (60% men)
▪ Increased respect (50% women, 20%
men)
o Meso level:
▪ Improved relationship (40%)
▪ Less strict division of household tasks
(25%)
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Findings
• Impact:
o Upscaling:
▪ Frequent copying
▪ Uncoordinated facilitation
among the trainer farmers,
no uniform explanation
▪ Lively discussions among
champion trainers and 2nd
round champion trainees
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Recommendations• Mission:
o Clarify mission from both sides
o Taking into account power distance between external facilitator and community
• Input:
o Selection of the champions
▪ Enough people in number
▪ Who are more or less equal in power
▪ Involve both husband and wife of the same family
• Throughput:
o In-depth coaching of staff who facilitate the process
o Facilitation from the back: avoid correcting / organize the workshop in such a way
that the need to display power is reduced
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Recommendations• Output:
o Make the tools as simple as possible, disintegrate the steps
o Reduce various possibilities for interpretation
o Do provide examples – as many as possible
o Alter reflection with more discussion in groups with individuals equal in power
• Outcome:
o Timing of gender agenda?
o Separate structure of women
• Impact: Upscaling and long term changes
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THANK YOU! QUESTIONS?
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