Presented by Kathy Colverson at the Livelihoods, Gender, Impact and Innovations Annual Retreat, Nairobi, 21 November 2013

1. The Gender Team
2013-2014 Highlights
Kathy Colverson
Livelihoods, Gender, Impact and Innovations Annual Retreat, Nairobi, 21
November 2013

2. Gender Highlights- Administrative
• 3 new gender staff hired for Tanzania, Ethiopia and
Nicaragua
• Gender Strategy for L&F research program approved
by CG Consortium
• Shared post-doc hired for gender and nutrition
research
• CG Gender Network agreed to standardize gender
research methods
• Gender research – a “top priority” for CG Consortium
• Collaboration with Fulbright Scholar from University of
South Florida

3. Consortium Learning Event: “Value For Money
for Gender Research”
• 150 participants in attendance – Consortium
Fund Council, ILRI Board, DG’s, CRP directors,
Senior Gender Scientists from all CG’s

5. What worked in USAID, WB, DFID
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Increased funding
New senior positions
All departments with gender advisors
Influential champions in key places
Measure progress
Individuals’ accountability

6. What the CRPs are doing and planning
to do
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10% of budget to gender
Scale down if funds are short
Gender and capacity development strategy
Global comparative studies
Big research informed from the ground

7. CGIAR is a global research partnership for a food secure future
Gender Research in the Livestock and
Fish research program
Implementation
Impact pathway
The Consortium approved the program’s gender strategy in June
2013. The strategy has informed the program’s project
development and activities and guided ILRI’s gender research
Achievements to date:
• Partners identified in 5 value chain countries
• Training manual on gender analysis in agriculture developed
• Capacity development of partners on gender analysis
undertaken in 6 value chain countries
• Gendered value chain analysis tools developed and tested,
and partners trained
• Publications prepared and presented at international
conferences
A= accommodating; T= transformative
• Proposals/concept notes on gender transformative
Vision
approaches developed and submitted for funding
• Appreciate gender research in its own right as a driver to achieve the CGIAR’s
goal of enhancing marginal livelihoods
• Recognize value of both effectiveness and equity rationales for gender research
• Allocate appropriate budget for gender research and activities
• Include gender-related qualitative and quantitative indicators in monitoring
learning and evaluation frameworks
• Participate fully in social science-bio-physical science interdisciplinary teams
Implementation challenges
Challenge: Limited staff capacity in gender analysis/research
Response: Create gender capacity development strategy;
Incorporate experiential learning methods into all training and
research; Integrate gender staff in value chain countries
Challenge: Gathering data on the links between gender norms
and value chain development
Response: Design, test and disseminate innovative tools on
gender norms and value chain development
Challenge: Scarcity of gender-specific funding opportunities
Response: Collaborate with partners to proactively develop
concept notes to engage donors and new funders
Partnerships and Capacities
• National Universities for shared expertise, to build local gender
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capacity, develop research projects, scale-up interventions
• National and international NGOs for implementing culturally
Key contacts
appropriate transformative interventions, using research
Kathleen Colverson : K.Colverson@cgiar.org
Paula Kantor: P.Kantor@cgiar.org
Alessandra Galie: A.Galie@cgiar.org
evidence to inform policy and development action, developing
research projects, scaling-up interventions
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Gender
Research in the
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8. Way Ahead
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Statistical power of evidence
More social sciences
Assign adequate budget
Show impact
Focus on policy
Adaptive learning (heterogeneity, context, time)
Understand empowering processes
Accountability mechanisms

9. Capacity Development :
2013 Highlights
• Value Chain partner trainings in
Ethiopia, Uganda, Thailand,
Philippines
• Partner training on “Integrating
Gender and Rights into
Development Projects”
• Gender Working Group meeting
– training on gender tools,
approaches for partners in
Nicaragua, Ethiopia, Tanzania,
Uganda
• Share Fair on research, tools,
publications

10. Gender Working Group meeting- Addis Ababa
•Blog posts:

11. Gender Publications
• ‘Closing the Gender Gap in Agriculture: A Trainer’s Manual’
Kathleen Colverson
• ILRI research bulletin, “Integrating Gender into Rural Advisory
Services”; Kathleen Colverson
• ‘Women’s Participation in Livestock Markets’; Elizabeth Waithanji,
Jemimah Njuki and Nabintu Bagalwa
• ‘Women, Livestock Markets and Income Management’; Jemimah
Njuki, Samuel Mburu and Paula Pimente
• ‘Women, livestock ownership and food security’; Kariuki J, Njuki J,
Mburu S, Waithanji E.
• ‘Gender, livestock and asset ownership’; Njuki J, Mburu S.
• Gender and livestock: Issues, challenges and opportunities’; Njuki J,
Sanginga P.
• ‘Gender, Assets, and Agricultural Development Programs: A
Conceptual Framework’; Meinzen-Dick R, Johnson N, Quisumbing A,
Njuki J, Behrman J, Rubin D, PetermanA, Waithanji

12. Progress on L&F Gender Strategy
•L&F value chain toolkit with gendered
questions created, shared with partners
•M & E gender indicators for IDOs and strategy
outputs drafted, shared with partners
•Proposals on Gender Transformative
Approaches (GTA’s) developed & submitted to
World Bank & IDRC

13. Progress on L&F Gender Strategy
•Tools developed, shared with partners on
incorporating GTAs
•Gendered intra-household research on animal source
food consumption patterns started
•Gender integrated in ILRI project proposals
•Assessment of EADD’s hubs approach in Kenya to distil
good practices for East Africa

14. Looking Forward - 2014
• Gender partnership
landscaping study in selected
value chain countries
• Develop and test a protocol for
selecting gendered “best bets”
in value chain countries
• Develop and integrate
gendered indicators into the
Livestock and Fish Impact
Framework

15. Looking Forward - 2014
• Develop funding proposals to fund
strategic and integrated research on
gender transformative change in
value chains
• Draft a manual for analyzing Gender
Transformative Approaches (GTA’s)
in the value chains
• Build capacity to analyze
gendered intra-household
consumption patterns around
animal source foods, and their
impact on women and children

16. Looking Forward - 2014
•Study on ‘Exploring women’s perceptions of ownership
and their implications on household food security in 3 L&F
VCs’
•Across CRPs case-study on gender and norms
•Develop tools and training to assess partners’ gender
capacity
•ILRI in house gender training

17. Additional Gender Activities - 2014
Gendered Value Chain analyses:
•Uganda - Pig Value Chain – Identify issues women farmers
face related to access and control of resources along the
value chain - identify Best Bets
•Nicaragua – Dual Purpose Cattle Value Chain -Identify, map
and assess the gender dynamics and the role of women
within the value chain
•Ethiopia - Sheep and Goat Value Chain - Identify issues
women farmers face related to access and control of
resources along the value chain – identify Best Bets

18. Additional Gender Activities - 2014
• Ethiopia - Identify potential opportunities and
interventions to change gender norms that
inhibit women’s and children’s consumption of
milk and meat
• Gender Training Workshop -on integrating
gender analysis and measuring gender impact in
ILRI’s livestock research for development – “how
to” incorporate gender analysis into bio-physical
and social sciences

19. Proposed Gender Articles and Reports - 2014
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“Gendered
Analysis of Livestock and Fish Value Chains: Best Bet
Tools for an East African Context”
• “Increasing Access to Rural Advisory Services for Rural Women in
East Africa: Best Bet Tools for Providers”
• “Gender Related Constraints and Potential Interventions in the
Smallholder Pig Value Chain in Uganda”
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Report on “The Gender Dynamics and the Roles of Women
Farmers in the Dual Purpose Cattle Value Chain”
• Report on “Access and Consumption of Meat and Milk, Animal
Health and Food Safety Issues from a Gender Perspective in
Ethiopia”