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Agricultural Growth Program- Livestock Market Development Gender Equity in Agriculture Growth Program-Livestock Market Development (AGP-LMD)Project

Agricultural Growth Program- Livestock Market Development Gender Equity in Agriculture Growth Program-Livestock Market Development (AGP- LMD)Project

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Page 1: Agricultural Growth Program- Livestock Market Development Gender Equity in Agriculture Growth Program-Livestock Market Development (AGP- LMD)Project

Agricultural Growth Program- Livestock Market Development

 

Gender Equity in Agriculture Growth

Program-Livestock Market Development (AGP-

LMD)Project

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Agricultural Growth Program- Livestock Market Development

 

• USAID-Ethiopia’s Agricultural Growth Program-Livestock Market Development (AGP-LMD) Project is a five-year project implemented as part of the U.S. Government’s Feed the Future (FTF) Initiative.

• The implementer of the Project is CNFA with 13 local and international partners.

• The project started on Sep. 2012.

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Agricultural Growth Program- Livestock Market Development

 

• The AGP-LMD project addresses USAID's Strategic Objective of improving smallholder incomes and nutritional status through the achievement of three key USAID intermediate results.

• IR1: Increase productivity and competitiveness of selected livestock value chains.

• IR2: Improve the enabling environment for livestock value chains.

• IR3: Improve the quality and diversity of household diet through intake of livestock products.

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• Integrated into these components are the cross-cutting objectives of engaging people living with HIV/AIDS, gender equity, promotion of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) solutions, environmental mitigation, and natural resource management.

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Agricultural Growth Program- Livestock Market Development

 

AGP-LMD is working on Dairy and Meat and Live animal.

Key themes for driving the AGP-LMD Project approach include:

• Market development• Increased productivity and efficiency throughout the

livestock value chain• Private sector focus and investment• Smallholder impact• Gender mainstreaming• Environmental conservation• ICT

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Agricultural Growth Program- Livestock Market Development

 

• AGP-LMD approach for gender equity is based on the findings of gender analysis during inception period.

• The findings were women are mostly engaged in animal production activities.

• They have limited participation in livestock marketing.• Limited access, control and benefits of resources.

To address the issue LMD designed:

A. Mainstreaming gender in all value chain activities;

B. Women’s empowerment.

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What are the Activities:• Give Gender mainstreaming training to V/C

Managers, other staff and IPs to make them aware on gender issues.

• To make sure in all activates at least 30% women representation is there.

• To cancel the beneficiary training, if the representation of women is less than 30%;

• Conduct trainings closer to participants wereda taking into consideration the mobility problem of women;

• Give child care service during the training;• Opening up opportunities for women to work on what

are traditionally male’s;

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• Identify and promote women friendly technologies in the livestock V/C;

• Link value chin actors to market through provision of Business to Business meetings;

• Promote role modeling of women in livestock V/C business;

• Make extra effort to link women entrepreneurs to finance, and support them in collateral;

• Give training to both husband and wives;• Build their capacity in the area of business

management, gender awareness and leadership including on nutrition and HIV/AIDS.

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Strengths• No compromise on female representation;• Give training to husband wives together;• Bring the training closer to participants;• Give child care service during training;• Coach and support women entrepreneurs;• Promote role modeling of women; • Provide grant on competitive base and specific to

women with less matching fund;• Give training to women in non traditional areas for

women eg CAHWs.

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Agricultural Growth Program- Livestock Market Development

 

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Agricultural Growth Program- Livestock Market Development

 

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Agricultural Growth Program- Livestock Market Development

 

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Agricultural Growth Program- Livestock Market Development

 

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Agricultural Growth Program- Livestock Market Development

 

Limitations Not having good strategy to include poor women; Not many women at managerial level; Exclusion of non AGP woredas;

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Opportunities• Country’s high potential in Livestock production;• Government interest on the project and willingness to

contribute;• Emergence of commercial dairy farms and increasing

meat export;• The existence of women entrepreneurs association;• The existence of NGOs working on livestock;• Availability of experience sharing program within and

outside the country;• Promotion of B to B to promote value chain and

networking among business.

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Challenges• Patriarchy culture;• Religious practice;• Lack of livestock market infrastructure;• Achieving 30% of women representation in TOT

training is a challenge;• Lack of equal access to resources; • Lack of safety for women to travel.

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THANK YOU