Gender in Value ChainsMeeting with Management and Staff involved in agricultural value chains

Objective session

Objective session • Put the development and implementation of a gender

strategy explicitly on the agenda of the organization• Start of a trajectory to equip staff for gender sensitive value

chain development • Action planning• Ultimate Goal: Better functioning chains of which men and

women benefit equally

Program

9h – 10 h30 • Discuss experiences with the e-module• Review some theoretical concepts

10h30-10h45 • Coffee break

10h45 – 12h30• Discuss the current situation in the organisation • Follow us how to introduce a gender responsive way of

working

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Getting to know each other

• Introduce your self (if necessary)

• What was your most recent experiences with gender in your work

• Which question would you like to get answers?

Experiences with the e-module

• What did you like about the e-module?• What did you learn?• What was difficult?• Etc..

Topics of this session

• Farmers – men and women – sexe and gender• Gender based roles, • Gender based control over resources • Gender concepts (gender equality, gender equity, women’s

empowerment) • Gender strategies (gender transformative, gender aware and

gender neutral) • What is gender mainstreaming and why do it it? • Key elements of gender mainstreaming in value chain

development • Action planning

Sexe and gender

The real farmer

The difference between sexe and gender

Importance of gender

Gender based: • Roles • Control over resources

Gender objectives and approaches

Gender objectives• Gender equity • Gender equality • Women’s empowerment

Gender appraches of organisations• Gender neutral (or gender blind)• Gender aware • Gender transformative

Gender mainstreaming

• What is gender mainstreaming • Why do it it? – Business – Social justice– Food security and poverty alleviation

Key elements of gender mainstreaming

• Know her (gender sensitive value chain analysis)• Design for her (gender sensitive interventions)• Be accountable to her

Towards a gender sensitive approach

Management support: Experience has learned that the willingness of staff to change their way of working largely depends on support of the management

Gender agenda: Part of this is that the management explicit puts the development and implementation of a gender strategy explicitly on the agenda of the organization

Goal: Better functioning chains of which men and women benefit equally

Objective: Equip and support staff to apply a gender sensitive approach in value chain development

State of the art

Name How gender sensitive is your organisation/ project?

Objective What needs to be done

What do you need?

Continuous learning

Develop a vision on gender

mainstreaming in Value chains

Training of staff

Introduction of guidelines,

approaches and tools

Implement gender sensitive

interventions

Monitoring, evaluation and

learning

Possible results

• Organisational Gender policy and strategy• Gender sensitive value chain analysis• Gender sensitive interventions at the level of households,

producer organisations, small entrepreneurs, CSR policy of large enterprises, certification schemes etc…

• Monitoring, evaluation and report: Quantitative data collection, collect and share stories, publish results etc.

Time schedule Gender trajectoryTiming Activity Participants Structural improvement

in organisation/ project

Management support

• Involve all staff (not only the gender specialist)

• Look what is already happening and appreciate this

• Actively invite all staff to take a role, encourage creativity• Recognize that the process is not easy support staff to solve

problems

• Emphasize structural improvement as opposed to one off

events

• After this trajectory keep gender on the agenda

Create a support base for the change process

1. Monitor and share positive results (use monitoring system)

2. Make an action plan

3. Support departments/ projects involved in the trajectory

4. Ensure formalization of gender policy and strategy

5. Monitor progress

Thanks for your attention

and success!!