RNE Resilience Workshop, 8 -10 Feb, 2015 Egypt

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March 4th, 2015
Social Protection Division
Emergency and RehabilitationDivision
Liselot Morreels, Knowledge Management
(TCE)
Unna Mustalampi, Gender Officer (ESP)
Building Resilience by
Addressing Gender
Inequalities
Stock-taking of Good
Practices
in Strategic Objective 5
Contents
1) Methodology
2) Rationale
3) Results and highlights
4) Gaps and challenges
5) Some good practices
6) Way forward

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1) Methodology for stock-taking
• SO- 5 focus countries (30) to report on
“gender-focused resilience good practices”
• Regional gender officer and gender focal
points coordinated the exercise
• Submissions assessed against criteria
• Contributions toward gender equality, OR an
innovative or systematic methodology
2) Rationale: Why gender and resilience?
• Women play a major roles in building
resilience as farmers, innovators, builders of
social networks, and caretakers
• Women’s potential is restricted by limited
access to productive resources, services, and
employment opportunities, and time-poverty
• Addressing women and men’s specific
priorities and needs makes resilience
programming more efficient and sustainable

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3) Results – Geographical coverage
Region/country # good practices received
RAF 24
Zimbabwe, Mali, Burkina Faso, Somalia, South Sudan,
Kenya, and one regional (Niger, DRC, Mauritania, Ghana,
Senegal, and Burundi)
RAP 17
Pakistan, Myanmar, Philippines, Afghanistan
RLC 3
Guatemala, Honduras, Dominican Republic
RNE 4
Lebanon, Sudan, Yemen
TOTAL 48
3) Results – by SO 5 Pillars/Outcomes
SO-5 pillars # good practices
received and
approved
Pillar 1: Enable the environment 2
Pillar 2: Watch to safeguard 2
Pillar 3: Apply risk and vulnerability
reductionmeasures
33
Pillar 4: Prepare and respond. 5
TOTAL 42

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4) Highlights
• Labor-saving technologies and measures that
reduce women’s work burden (fuel-efficient
stoves, lighter banana crates, motorized grain
threshers, improved granaries, etc.)
• Linking nutrition and gender (poultry, vegetable
production coupled with nutrition education)
• Group-based learning approaches (women open
schools, farmer field schools, listeners’ clubs)
• Mobilizing women as field staff (extension
workers, enumerators, etc) to facilitate the access
and inclusion of women to services
4) Highlights
• Cajas rurales/caisses de résilience allows for
rural women associations access to capital to
build resilience in their own terms
• Accountability to Affected Populations
approach during emergency response to
improve targeting and information exchange
with communities

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5) Gaps and challenges
• Gender is often equated with women (or
women and nutrition)
• Marginality – “women components” or very
small projects targeted at women
• Good practices missing from the policy level
(Pillar 1) and the early warning information
(Pillar 2)
6) Good practice from Zimbabwe
• A drought-prevention programme aimed at protecting
cattle by drilling boreholes, providing supplementary
feed and establishing community leadership structures
for preparedness
• The project looked beyond the stereotypical idea that
men take care of cattle, and involved women and
youth in the planning and decision-making structures
of the project (community committees), and
conducted awareness-raising on gender issues.
• As a result, women were able to influence the locations
of water points and stock feed storage, and the time
they spent to secure feed and fetch water was reduced.

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6) Good practice from Yemen
• Women have limited access to agricultural services and
training despite their important role in agriculture
• FAO worked with the Yemeni Women Union to increase
outreach to women
• Skills transfer with distribution of assets for kitchen gardens,
small livestock, water harvesting techniques targeted at
women, and nutrition education and awareness raising aimed
at women, men and children
• The project combined women-targeted activities and
behavioural change targeted at men, resulting in an increased
and diversified consumption of nutritious foods by the
families and more empowered women.
7) Way forward
• RNE workshop on good practices in resilience
• Webinar to disseminate good practices
• Upscaling of relevant good practices (SAFE,
caisses de résilience, AAP, others?)
• Gender and resilience brief
• Impact assessment of some of these practices
Thank you!