gender capacity assessment and development in the livestock and fish research program

Gender capacity assessment and development in the Livestock

and Fish research program

Els Rijke (ILRI consultant)

Livestock and Fish partner meeting to review and advise on a gender capacity assessment methodology

Addis Ababa, 5 November 2014

This workshop

• Present gender capacity assessment and

development framework & get feedback

• Core gender capacities:

– Pre-assessment “snapshot”– Discussion– Assessing one core capacity

Why?

• LAF’s Gender Strategy: Increased gender capacity

• systematic gender capacity assessment and

development

What?

• Framework and tools for analyses of current gender

capacities - desired future gender capacities

• opportunities and entry points for gender capacity

development

• design country and value chain capacity

development plans

Field visit

Pre-assessment and testing tools/questions

3 November

• LIVES

• TARI

4 November

• Sheep producers male/female

• Atsbi Bureau of Agriculture

• Mekelle Agricultural Research Center

Gender capacities

Actors

Level

3 dimensional framework

Levels of analysispolicies, rules and legislation, regulations, power relations and social norms

internal policies, arrangements, procedures and frameworks allowing an organization to operate and deliver on its mandate

skills, experience, knowledge, leadership and motivation of people

Core Gender Capacities

A. Gender analysis and strategic planning

B. Effective partnerships and advocacy on promoting gender equality

C. Gender responsive programming, budgeting and implementation

D. Knowledge management and gender responsive M&E

E. Gender and leadership

F. Innovation in gender responsive approaches

Actors and functions

• Operational

• Research

• Development

– Extension service providers (government, private, non-profit)

– Producers and their organizations

– Development organizations (NGOs)

– Governmental legislative and policy-making bodies

Framework

• Does it relate to Ethiopia reality and needs?

• Where does it need adaptation?

Remaining agenda this workshop

• Each core capacity: key parameters

• Snapshot findings field visit

• Discussion

• Focus on “innovation”

Core capacity: Gender analysis and strategic planning

some parameters

• analyze gender dynamics within the value chain

• apply gender analysis tools and frameworks

• analyze gender dynamics in the organization

• gender strategy


Field work snapshot:

- Understanding of gender roles and norms

- Gender analysis limited to differences in participation

- difficult interpretation and translation of analysis into strategic planning

- Gender policy in place, implemented from top

- Expert only in LIVES, in Addis


Discussion:

- What are required / desired capacities?

- Which capacities are strongly developed in LAF program partners in Ethiopia?

- Which capacities need attention?

- Whose capacities need to be developed?

Core capacity: Effective partnerships and advocacy on promoting gender equality

some parameters

- advocacy for gender equality

- develop and disseminate gender advocacy materials

- collaborate with the government and other actors



- All actors met were partners and exchange information

- Follow the same policies etc

- Influence of the environmental factors


Discussion:





Core capacity: Gender responsive programming, budgeting and implementation

some parameters

• human resources management

• internal policies, strategies, procedures, organizational structures and programming

• financial resources for gender mainstreaming

• ensure that interventions benefit women and men equally



- target 30% FHH

- Skills


Discussion:





Core capacity: Knowledge management and gender responsive M&E

some parameters

• collect, interpret and report on sex- disaggregated data

• measuring changes from gender interventions

• Access to and production of knowledge documents and publications on gender



- Data collected disaggregated mainly by household head and sometimes by sex

- No M&E on gender impact


Discussion:





Core capacity: Gender and leadership

some parameters

• women in leadership positions

• Commitment

• Accountability

• vision towards gender equality



- Commitment and interest in gender

- Gender balance


Discussion:





Core capacity: Innovation

some parameters

• develop and test gender transformative approaches (GTAs)

• Apply, document and learn from innovative approaches and methods



Partners work with accommodating approaches:

– working with traditional women’s commodities (poultry)

– Working from women’s position and roles in society, defending cultural norms of seclusion of women (training)

– focus on FHH defending “altruist” notion of male head (unitary HH model)


Discussion:





Tools

Tool per level / capacity / actor

Scoring existing capacities:

• Individual: questionnaire

• Organizational: FGD and individual scoring

• Environmental: Key informant interviews

Discussion desired capacities

Capacity scoring

1. Very Low: No evidence or only anecdotal evidence of the gender

capacity

2. Low: gender capacity exists but has not been developed

3. Medium: gender capacity exists and is under development or

partially developed

4. High: gender capacity exists, is widespread, but not

comprehensive, further development is planned or needed

5. Very High: gender capacity exists and is fully developed and

integrated into the organization

Core capacity: Innovation (organizational)• To what extent does the organization develop and test Gender

Transformative Approaches (GTAs) and other innovative approaches and methods to close the gender gap and empower women? Are internal policies and frameworks in place?

• To what extent does the organization apply gender transformative approaches (GTAs) and other innovative approaches and methods? Are procedures in place?

• To what extent does the organization recognize gender transformative outcomes? Are systems in place such as M&E, IA systems?

• To what extent does the organization document, learn from, and share innovative approaches and methods, knowledge and resources? Have experiences been documented and accessed by multiple audiences?

• To what extent does the organization scale up innovative approaches? Have experiences been replicated by others?

• Research / development actors

Environmental level

• Which environmental factors (formal and informal, policies, rules

and legislation, regulations, gender relations and social norms,

institutional set up) play a role?

• How do they enable/disable capacities?

• Which capacities are affected?

• How will they affect (enable/disable) capacity development?


Individual:

• skills, experience, knowledge of people (management, staff, researchers, extension workers)

• leadership and motivation of people

• Attitudes of people

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