1. Gender
CSISA-AAS alignment
meeting
6-May 2013
Afrina Choudhury

2. In CSISA-BD we empower women by
• giving them knowledge and building their capacity,
• Providing access to agricultural inputs
• Providing them with income earning options
• Enabling better decision making and control with the required
knowledge, record keeping abilities, etc

3. Gender Objectives
• High adoption rates of new practices and technologies
among men and women;
• reduced gender gap in technology adoption rates;
• equitable access to resources and skills for women and
men;
• equitable uptake of training, financial and business
services by men and women;
• and increase in the number of men and women
engaged in production and market organizations

4. The process
• Priority setting. The differential needs, interests
and priorities of women and men are reflected.
• Research in development. Researchers are
sensitized to gender issues and consult female
and male users in research and development.
• Extension. Female and male extension workers
deliver extension services to female and male
producers

5. • Adoption of innovations. The enabling conditions for
adoption such as cash, credit, labor, skills and property
rights will be taken into account. Look into these input
access separately for men and women!
• Evaluation and impact assessment. Gender
differences are taken into account in deciding on criteria
or indicators that assess the costs and benefits of
agricultural innovation and their related distribution.

6. Specific women targeted interventions
• HH level interventions :100 women targeted (role,mobility,
time, labour input taken into consideration)
• Cage Aquaculture

7. Extension services
• Tapped into existing infolady model
• Trained on our Agricultural technologies
• Options for business ideas based on our techs
• Extension agents trained on gender
• Hiring of female extension agents emphasized with partners
• Video clips (animated)

8. Training
• Training session on gender: value of women’s roles
• Knowledge is power: Women trained on non conventional
technologies
• Group approach for better uptake
• Female role models created as PAT farmers (even in mixed
groups)
• Women playing non-conventional trained to help compete
better

9. Recognition of women’s roles
• Workshops and prizes:
• Intl. Women’s Day
• Intl Day for Rural women
• Husbands brought in to appreciate their role

10. Capacity Buidling
• Trainings planned this year for staff
• BAU students will be hired thru special female internship
programs to encourage women in careers
• MSc, PhD

11. Input suppliers
• Linked to input suppliers
• MOU with Lal Teer: small mini packet distribution networks in
CSISA villages
• CSISA farmers as contract seed farmers
• Link with Amar Desh Amar Gram

12. Studies
• Gender relations, risks and technology uptake (CCAFS
funded)
• HH level interventions: decision making, control and burden
study ;
• impacts of intensification on women and also HH
consumption