Gender

CSISA-AAS alignment

meeting

6-May 2013

Afrina Choudhury

In CSISA-BD we empower women by

• giving them knowledge and building their capacity,

• Providing access to agricultural inputs

• Providing them with income earning options

• Enabling better decision making and control with the required

knowledge, record keeping abilities, etc

Gender Objectives

• High adoption rates of new practices and technologies

among men and women;

• reduced gender gap in technology adoption rates;

• equitable access to resources and skills for women and

men;

• equitable uptake of training, financial and business

services by men and women;

• and increase in the number of men and women

engaged in production and market organizations

The process

• Priority setting. The differential needs, interests

and priorities of women and men are reflected.

• Research in development. Researchers are

sensitized to gender issues and consult female

and male users in research and development.

• Extension. Female and male extension workers

deliver extension services to female and male

producers

• Adoption of innovations. The enabling conditions for

adoption such as cash, credit, labor, skills and property

rights will be taken into account. Look into these input

access separately for men and women!

• Evaluation and impact assessment. Gender

differences are taken into account in deciding on criteria

or indicators that assess the costs and benefits of

agricultural innovation and their related distribution.

Specific women targeted interventions

• HH level interventions :100 women targeted (role,mobility,

time, labour input taken into consideration)

• Cage Aquaculture

Extension services

• Tapped into existing infolady model

• Trained on our Agricultural technologies

• Options for business ideas based on our techs

• Extension agents trained on gender

• Hiring of female extension agents emphasized with partners

• Video clips (animated)

Training

• Training session on gender: value of women’s roles

• Knowledge is power: Women trained on non conventional

technologies

• Group approach for better uptake

• Female role models created as PAT farmers (even in mixed

groups)

• Women playing non-conventional trained to help compete

better

Recognition of women’s roles

• Workshops and prizes:

• Intl. Women’s Day

• Intl Day for Rural women

• Husbands brought in to appreciate their role

Capacity Buidling

• Trainings planned this year for staff

• BAU students will be hired thru special female internship

programs to encourage women in careers

• MSc, PhD

Input suppliers

• Linked to input suppliers

• MOU with Lal Teer: small mini packet distribution networks in

CSISA villages

• CSISA farmers as contract seed farmers

• Link with Amar Desh Amar Gram

Studies

• Gender relations, risks and technology uptake (CCAFS

funded)

• HH level interventions: decision making, control and burden

study ;

• impacts of intensification on women and also HH

consumption