Addis gaps Gender
Sustainable intensification of crop-livestock systems to improve food security and farm income diversification in the Ethiopian highlands Project Design Workshop 30 January - 2 February 2012, Addis Ababa Ethiopia
World cafe on gaps - Gender (Katherine Snyder)
This workshop provides an opportunity for a broad group of important stakeholders to both learn about the project plans and to share their views on expectations from and opportunities for synergies with the project (days 1 and 2) and for the core project team to finalize the project details (days 3 and 4).
How to integrate gender in the work of this project:
- Farm-level decision-making within household-gendered entry point;
- Gender and age - schooling / labor
- Gendered assets: focus on livestock
- Gendered groups such as S+L
- Gendered impact of intensification
- Dependency ratio - producers / consumers. Gender + age.
- Gender + religion / gender ideology;
- Income goes up, money goes out (man spends it)
- Who gets the money in case of bigger income-generating activities?
- Does empowerment cause conflict?
Depends on how the change occurs Depends on household characteristics
- Trade-offs for gender/age equity (using manure for soil fertility instead of fuel)
- Livestock: choice of commodity makes a difference (small ruminants often managed by women, but may not make money from marketing)
- Agro-forestry (important that it provides opportunities for both)
Women: fruit/fuel trees as sources of nutrition (have own criteria) Men: Wood for pole / wood for cash
- Mode farmer selection (important to include female-headed households)
- How to incorporate in the workplan? Gender should be incorporated by specifying percentage;
- Opportunities:
Target women's activities/assets Governance and leadership
- Challenges:
Established (cultural) norms Potential negativeimpacts.
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