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INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Overview of the initiative
Presented at the Midterm Workshop, Rajendrapur, Bangladesh
November, 2011
INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE
The Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project (GAAP)
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Objectives and overview
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-mid 2013);
Jointly led 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!
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Why assets? Why gender?
Increasing control/ownership of assets help create pathways out of poverty more than measures that aim to increase incomes or consumption alone;
Households do not pool resources nor share the same preferences Who receives resources or controls assets matters;
Evidence from many countries that increasing resources controlled by women improves child health and nutrition, agricultural productivity, income growth;
Although we know a lot about how to target women and increase participation with development interventions, methods are still not widely used in development projects and have not addressed the gender-gap in assets;
We define assets broadly: Natural capital, Physical capital, Financial capital, Human capital, Social capital, Political capital.
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The big picture: Putting it together
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Lots of buzz in Kenya: Inception workshop at ILRI, Nov 2010
More photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/ilri/sets/72157625322903538/
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Four components of GAAP
1. Capacity building (all grants, especially to facilitate gendered midcourse improvements);
2. Research (quantitative and qualitative impact assessments);
3. Identifying “good practice” (synthesis and lessons learned);
4. Dissemination and outreach (ongoing, not only at project end).
Left: Farmer shows off MoneyMaker irrigation pump to Enumerator team in Kenya.; Right: Asset transfers in Burkina Faso
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Capacity building activities
Develop a conceptual framework for analyzing gender and assets in agricultural R&D programs;
Inception workshop in November 2010: training and planning workshop for potential projects (one evaluation person and one implementer per project);
Develop a capacity building strategy and train project members in gender-asset methodology for selected projects and for the overall initiative based on the KAP survey;
Midterm workshop (year 2): progress, research results, midterm adjustments to projects—NOW!
Final workshop (end of project): present evaluation results, effectiveness of different strategies, share lessons from evaluation
results and integrated strategies.
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Research activities
Work with the evaluation partners in the selected projects, design additional gender-sensitive approaches or components to include in the evaluation plan for each project including data collection;
Conduct gender analysis together with evaluation partners, to include:
• Initial characterization of baseline data;
• Documentation of mid-course adjustments and their impacts;
• Impact analysis by project;
• Synthesis of findings across projects.
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Identifying “good practices”
Identify effective pathways for reaching women and reducing gender asset disparities, based on ongoing implementation and cross-project learning;
Some projects may want to implement midterm adjustments, as a result of findings. Changes will be documented so we can learn from them (“Gendered midcourse improvements”);
Develop alternative strategies for addressing gender disparities in assets in agricultural development projects, depending on context (sub-Saharan Africa versus South Asia).
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Dissemination and outreach
Document and widely disseminate methods, results, and lessons learned about how to build women’s assets and improve livelihoods through agricultural development projects;
Thinking “outside the box”: use web-based dissemination options—set up http://genderassets.wordpress.com;
Develop training materials and for supporting partners in data collection, analysis and implementation;
Prepare scientific papers, project reports, and policy briefs.
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Summary of Key points
Evaluate 8 agricultural development projects:
• Identify the projects’ impacts on women’s assets;
• Clarify which strategies have been successful in reducing gender gaps in asset access and ownership;
Participatory process between implementers, evaluation partners and GAAP team;
Use existing baseline surveys and new targeted studies (qualitative and quantitative) to document men’s and women’s assets and the change in those levels over the life of the project;
Provide training and technical assistance to program staff in methods to identify and address gender disparities in assets;
Contribute to a development toolkit to reduce gender asset disparities and help to place gender considerations at the center of agricultural development.
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Mind the gap!