Presented by Gusnara Bustos at the Livestock and Fish Gender Working Group Workshop and Planning Meeting, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 14-18 October 2013

1. Gender equity and equality in
the MAP Norway Project in Nicaragua
Gusnara Bustos
Livestock and Fish Gender Working Group
Workshop and Planning Meeting
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 14-18 October 2013

2. Population: 6.2 million
people.
45% of the population
live in the rural area and
are mostly dedicated to
agriculture and cattle
production.
Women are 52% of the
population.

3. MAPNorway Program
The Mesoamerican Agroenvironmental Program (MAP) developed
by CATIE (Tropical Agriculture Center of Research and Teaching) is
focused on the development of Climate Intelligent Territories in four
countries of Central America (Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador and
Guatemala). This program is designed to contribute to solve core
problems (poverty, inequity and food insecurity).
 A Climate Intelligent Territory is a geographic and social space
where mitigation and adaptation to climate change are
optimized through continuous improvement.

4. This program aims to:
Families: increase assets, diversify production and improve equity in family
decision making for food security of 5000 rural households.
Organizations: Improve capacity for linkages and access to better markets in
seven prioritized value chains of 30 business organizations and stakeholders.
Territorial management and massification: Actors of local, national and
territorial governance, civil society, universities and research centers promote
climate-smart management in the project territories.

5. The simultaneous
attention of global
problems can be
achieved within the
development
framework of
"Climate-Intelligent
Territories" (TCI)

7. Objective of MAPNorway´s Gender Strategy
Develop capital or assets of young
women from the target groups to
promote gender equality and equity
and increase the use the tools, access
to knowledge, technological
innovations and active participation in
processes that contribute to the
construction of climate intelligent
territories.

8. Axis 1:
Development of
capital for rural
families, especially
women and young
people, to diversify
their livelihoods
and increase their
empowerment
Activities:
• Food Security
• Technological innovation
• Gender in Field schools
curriculum.
• Roles transformation
• Participation of women in
decision making and increasing
their access to resources.
Axis 2:
Entrepreneurial,
associative and
innovation capacity
building
Value chain with a gender equity
approach, access to knowledge
and technical assistance for
women and youth
Livestock and Fish Gender
Strategy Outputs
Strategies and approaches
to increase women´s
participation in livestock
and fish value chains.
Development of Gender
Capacities

9. Axis 3:
Continuous
improvement of the
methodological
tools
Livestock and Fish
Gender Strategy
Outputs
metodológicas
•Research and systematization with a
gender approach.
•Methodological tools with a gender
approach.
•Advocacy at local, national and
regional level.
•Proposals and projects with gender
component.
•Eje 3: Mejora herramientas
para la equidad
• Investigaciones y sistematizaciones con
enfoque de género.
• Herramientas metodológicas con enfoque deof
Development
Axis 4:
•Promote thesis projects with a gender
Gender Capacities
génerothe
Promote
perspective, technical assistance to
•management and •Incorporate gender issues on
Incidencia partner organizations. local, nacional y
política a nivel
dissemination of
regionalin territorial planning and management
knowledge
• relation to theof agendas, where issuesconasenfoque de
Propuesta impact of climate change on the lives
y proyectos such the
implementation
gender and
géneroequity of women and men can be
addressed.

10. We aim to increase: