Building Gender-inclusive Value Chains by Sarah Mills.pdf

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Sarah Mills iDE UK Gender Programme Officer Building Gender-inclusive Value Chains ADB REGIONAL SEMINAR, Bangkok, 20-22 May 2015: WOMEN’S EMPLOYMENT, ENTREPRENEURSHIP & EMPOWERMENT: MOVING FORWARD ON IMPERFECT PATHWAYS The views expressed in this paper are the views of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), or its Board of Governors, or the governments they represent. ADB does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this paper and accepts no responsibility for any consequence of their use. The countries listed in this paper do not imply any view on ADB's part as to sovereignty or independent status or necessarily conform to ADB's terminology.

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Sarah Mills iDE UK Gender Programme Officer

Building Gender-inclusive Value Chains

ADB REGIONAL SEMINAR, Bangkok, 20-22 May 2015: WOMEN’S EMPLOYMENT, ENTREPRENEURSHIP & EMPOWERMENT:

MOVING FORWARD ON IMPERFECT PATHWAYS

The views expressed in this paper are the views of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), or its Board of

Governors, or the governments they represent. ADB does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this paper and accepts no responsibility for any consequence

of their use. The countries listed in this paper do not imply any view on ADB's part as to sovereignty or independent status or necessarily conform to ADB's terminology.

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Value chains

Inputs Production

and processing

Marketing Consumer

Machinery

manufacturers; local

traders; extension

service providers

Farm to fork

Farmers;

cooperatives; wage

labourers

Farmers;

cooperatives;

intermediaries;

wholesalers; retailers

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Making Markets work for the Poor (M4P)

• Developing market systems to

benefit poor rural communities

• Seeks to make markets more

inclusive of the poor,

effectively and sustainably

• External actors play temporary

and catalytic role

• Addresses causes of weak

market performance

• Gender and other forms of

social exclusion key here

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Why Gender Equity in Value Chains?

Social Justice

Poverty reduction

Business opportunities

Women tend to be less integrated into

value chains

• Identify and strengthen weakest

links

• Distributions of power and

resources

Ultimately, gender equitable and

more inclusive value chains

improve their overall strength and

performance.

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Gendered Value Chain Analysis AIM: integrate small scale female producers, processors, traders, and entrepreneurs into value chains to enhance their economic empowerment

• Focus on key subsectors and levels of VC • Where women are already active (production, processing, etc.) • Potential for women’s employment and entrepreneurship

• Identify key constraints

• Identify possible solutions

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Who has what?

Who does what?

Who benefits?

Who decides?

Gender analysis

Resources

Agency, voice and

choice

Divisions of labour

• Economic and social

• Power/ redistribution of

• Potential negative

impacts

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Constraints

• Socio-cultural

• Policy and regulation (e.g. inheritance,

land ownership)

• Access to/control over resources incl.

land, finance

• Low literacy/numeracy

• Lack of productive assets

• Mobility and time – access to markets

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Possible Solutions to Improving WEE through VC support • Horizontal and vertical links and relationships

• Key VC support mechanisms • Technologies • Crops/products • Finance • Information • Skills training

• Enabling environment • Socio-cultural practices • Policies, regulations • Infrastructure, certification

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iDE Nepal

• Openness to women’s participation

• High value crops – close to home

• Commercial pockets/collection centres

• 33-50% female representation in leadership roles

• Multiple use water systems (MUS); labour-saving technologies

• Community Business Facilitators – last mile distribution

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Challenges

• Ensuring women engaged in whole design and delivery

process.

• Are value chains the most appropriate way to address gender inequalities?

• Designing and delivering whole-system programmes – engaging with other actors etc.

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Summary

Value chain programmes that support gender equity goals:

• Understand men’s and women’s roles and relationships

• Foster equitable participation

• Address the distinctive needs of women

• Support women’s economic advancement

• Promote gender equitable market-driven solutions

• Design equitable benefit-sharing mechanisms

• Include men in defining the ‘problem’ and the solution

• VCs exist in gendered social structures and institutions