Training Session 4 – Bergman-Lodin – Intro to Global Study on Innovation in Ag I

A4NH Gender-Nutrition Methods Workshop II

Bioversity International – Rome3 December 2014

Johanna Bergman Lodin

Training session objectives

Programme

9:00

10:00

10:30

11:00

11:30

Overview of global study- What is it about and current status (Johanna)- Planning of the study and methods (Dina)

2 examples - Nigeria (Johanna)- Vietnam (Jessica)

Presentation of group exercise case, GL in Tanzania (Esther)

Leg stretcher + signing up for groups

Break out session / group exercise (Peter)- Activity B (Esther)- Activity C (Miranda)- Activity D (Johanna)- Activity E (Dina)

Coffee break

Break out session / group exercise, cont.

Wrap up – highlights from the groups (Peter)

Background to study

• Innovation in agriculture and NRM is critical to reducing rural poverty.

• But innovation that ignores gender inequality is limited in its impact and risks worsening the poverty, workload and wellbeing of poor rural women and their families

• To design and scale out agricultural innovations that deliver benefits to both poor women and men, we need to understand gender norms that impact on their ability to benefit from new technologies

understand -- from the perspective of men’s and women’s own views, understandings, and experiences -- the relationships between gender norms, agency andinnovation in agriculture and NRM across a diverse set

of contexts

by

conducting global, comparative research through case studies sharing a standardized qualitative

methodology

The Global Study seeks to…

Study objectivesevidence on the relationship

between gender norms, agency and agricultural innovation,

identifying the gender-based constraints that need to be overcome

Main study questions:

•How do gender norms and agency advance or impede ag/NRM innovation?

•How do ag/NRM innovations affect gender norms and agency? • Under what conditions can they do harm to women?

•How are gender norms and men’s and women’s agency changing? • And under what conditions do these changes catalyze innovation and

lead to desired development outcomes? What contextual factors influence this relationship?

Opportunity structure

Change in empowerment of poor women

and men

Agricultural and NRM

technologies

Individual and collective

capabilities foragriculture and

NRM

Gender norms and

institutional climate for

inclusion and accountability

Agency

Innovation

Change in:• Control of

assets, inputs, and benefits

• Food security• Health and

Nutrition• Environment

al integrity

What is a case?

Community a reasonably well-defined single locality that the inhabitants call their village or hamlet.

Sampling of cases

Variance at the community level

• Gender gaps in assets and capacities• Girls v. boys primary school completion rates• Women’s civic and political leadership• Women’s physical mobility

• Economic dynamism• Extent of competition over agric./NRM resources• Infrastructure development• Market orientation• Sophistication of processing technologies• Diversity and size of local market• On and off-farm labor market• Diversification of livelihoods ….

Expected results

strengthen gender expertise

Gender Strategy integration of gender

transforming restrictive gender norms and empowering poor rural women

When What

June 2013 – the idea is born

October 2013 – the idea is acted on

Early 2014 – tools ready and pretested

May 2014 – ToT

June 2014 onwards – casestudies conducted

January 2015

• Workshop on Methods and Standards for Research on Gender and Agriculture, Montpellier

• The CGIAR Gender and Agriculture Research Network hosts meeting in Washington, DC with select CG gender experts to discuss design.

• Patti completes the methodology guide.• Guide piloted in Mexico and Uganda

• 20 CG gender researchers trained, Cali

• Approximately 40 case studies carried out by various CRPs

• Meeting with PIs to exchangeexperiences, plan how to proceed and train in data analysis, side event to the Gender Network meeting in Los Baños, the Philippines

Current status