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Gender Equality in Rural Africa:
From Commitments to Outcomes
2019 Annual Trends and Outlook Report (ATOR)
Editors
Agnes Quisumbing, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, and Jemimah Njuki
• Resolve to ensure, through “deliberate and targeted public support,”
that all segments of the African populations, “women, the youth, and
other disadvantaged sectors,” must “participate and directly benefit
from the growth and transformation opportunities to improve their
lives and livelihoods.”
• Commitment to halve poverty by 2025 through inclusive agricultural
growth and transformation explicitly states that governments would
support and facilitate preferential entry and participation for women
and youth in gainful and attractive agri-business opportunities.
• To meet overall Malabo commitments: Need to address gender
The Malabo Declaration Commitments
• Both men and women engaged
in agriculture: 62% of
economically active women are
in agriculture
• Gender barriers in the sector
include unequal access to
resources, gaps in productivity:
limit sector growth
• Addressing gender inequalities
increases opportunities for
agricultural transformation
Why a focus on Gender Equality in Rural Africa
Shocks
Livelihood
Strategies
Full Incomes
Savings/
Investment
Consumption
Well-beingAssets
Context: Ecological, Social, Economic, Political Factors, etc. Men Joint Women
Shocks
Livelihood
Strategies
Full Incomes
Savings/
Investment
Consumption
Well-being
Assets
Context: Ecological, Social,
Economic, Political Factors, etc.
Context: Ecological, Social,
Economic, Political Factors, etc.
Social norms
Leadership
Data
• Gender norms are important, invisible barriers that can
undermine women's economic empowerment. They
relate to social expectations influencing behaviors and
practices.
• Shifting social norms can be as influential as monetary
incentives or policy prescriptions in influencing
behavior at scale.
• A social norms approach needs deliberate investments
of time and resources and community mobilization,
which is not easy to scale
• Shifting gender norms requires formative research, a
community-mobilization intervention, engagement with
community leaders, and space and repeated instances
for dialogue and debate.
Shocks
Livelihood
Strategies
Full Incomes
Savings/
Investment
Consumption
Well-being
Assets
Context: Ecological, Social,
Economic, Political Factors, etc. Social norms (Miruka and Hillenbrand)
Shocks
Livelihood
Strategies
Full Incomes
Savings/
Investment
Consumption
Well-being
Assets
Context: Ecological, Social,
Economic, Political Factors, etc.
Leadership (Mbo’o-Tchouawou, Beyene, Mulei, Kamau-
Rutenberg)
• Lack of gender parity in political and agricultural
leadership in the continent, despite evidence
suggesting gender diversity in leadership contributes
to organizational growth
• Leaky pipeline of African agricultural scientists -
particularly women and their representation in
leadership positions in agricultural institutions
• ~~24 percent of total agricultural researchers employed at a
senior level in 2014 were female (Beintema 2017).
• Creating an enabling environment to provide a level
playing field for all, especially women and youth by
removing systemic barriers that constrain women
from taking on leadership positions, and collecting
evidence of transformative leadership
• Call for making leaders in both research and
policymaking accountable for gender equality
Shocks
Livelihood
Strategies
Full Incomes
Savings/
Investment
Consumption
Well-being
Assets
Context: Ecological, Social,
Economic, Political Factors, etc.
Data on many aspects of rural African women and girls’
lives are lacking. We need this to:
• account for ALL of women’s work
• help improve women’s productivity and food security
and nutrition
• better understand and more effectively tackle poverty.
Women’s economic and social roles are
interdependent; it is difficult to separate a woman’s
individual experience from her household
Sex disaggregation of key indicators remains a major
challenge.
To improve sex-disaggregated data collection and use,
must build connections between data producers and
policy makers to inform nuanced policies that can
deliver for rural women and girls.
Data (Buvinic and Carey)
AssetsShocks
Livelihood
Strategies
Full Incomes
Savings/
Investment
Consumption
Well-being
Assets
Context: Ecological, Social,
Economic, Political Factors, etc.
Land
Financial capital
Shocks
Livelihood
Strategies
Full Incomes
Savings/
Investment
Consumption
Well-being
Assets
Context: Ecological, Social,
Economic, Political Factors, etc.
• Despite recent gender-friendly land reforms in
Africa, women’s land rights remain insecure
• Population pressure, commercialization of
agriculture, commodification of land, increased
land values => eroding women’s land rights
• Increased scrutiny of customary land tenure vs.
govt intervention
• Prioritize hot spot areas (high or rising land values) for
gender sensitive land tenure regularization programs
• Leave alone functional customary tenure systems in
areas with lower land values (relatively land-abundant
settings)
• Complement land rights protection programs with
explicit provisions for women’s land rights and
legal literacy programs not only to maximize the
potential gender parity outcomes of such programs
but also ensure their sustainability.
Land (Ghebru)
Shocks
Livelihood
Strategies
Full Incomes
Savings/
Investment
Consumption
Well-being
Assets
Context: Ecological, Social,
Economic, Political Factors, etc.
• Importance of women’s financial inclusion for
agriculture, enterprises, but limited by constraints of
time, legal rights, human capacity, security
concerns, lack of money
• 6-19% women smallholders; 14-34% entrepreneurs have formal
bank account
• Promising financial innovations:
• Microfinance Institutions, Village Savings and Loan Associations
• Mobile banking
• Integrated micro-insurance programs
• Fintech to provide credit scores for smallholder women
• Agency banking: roaming staff increase women’s access
• Gender transformative financial inclusion: making
financial systems “womanable” not women
“bankable”
• Changing rules & practices, regulatory systems & social norms
• Changing women’s skills, knowledge, resources to empower
• Changing relationships in household, market, community
Financial capital (Njuki and Melesse)
ShocksShocks
Livelihood
Strategies
Full Incomes
Savings/
Investment
Consumption
Well-being
Assets
Context: Ecological, Social,
Economic, Political Factors, etc.
Resilience to climate and other shocks
Social safety nets
Shocks
Livelihood
Strategies
Full Incomes
Savings/
Investment
Consumption
Well-being
Assets
Context: Ecological, Social,
Economic, Political Factors, etc.
• Capacities, preferences, and needs related to resilience
differ between groups of people, especially along lines of
gender and social difference
• Interventions need processes to recognize and address
these differences in specific settings and to tap into skills
and contributions of women and marginalized groups.
• Processes must include assessment of gender
differences in:
• exposure and sensitivity to shocks and stressors,
• resilience capacities,
• preferences, responses, and well-being outcomes
• Once local constraints are identified, use approaches for
gender-responsive resilience programming, including
supporting key livelihood activities of both women and
men, and promoting inclusive decision-making at the
household and community levels.
Resilience to climate and other shocks
(Theis, Bryan, Ringler)
Shocks
Livelihood
Strategies
Full Incomes
Savings/
Investment
Consumption
Well-being
Assets
Context: Ecological, Social,
Economic, Political Factors, etc.
Social safety nets are important in Africa, but significant
evidence gaps remain
Strong evidence: SSN in Africa can decrease intimate
partner violence, increase psychological well-being for
women, and increase economic standing, with minimal
changes in labor force participation
Less evidence: SSN empower women, but studies limited
by measurement concerns
Some evidence: SSN improve women’s dietary diversity
Limited evidence: impacts on women’s food security or
nutritional biomarkers.
Two big evidence gaps: non-cash modalities; unpacking
contribution of key program design elements
Need to invest in higher quality evidence generation, to
demonstrate impacts on women’s well-being and to know
how impacts differ by local underlying gender inequalities
Social safety nets (Peterman, Kumar, Pereira, Gilligan)
Livelihood StrategiesShocks
Livelihood
Strategies
Full Incomes
Savings/
Investment
Consumption
Well-being
Assets
Context: Ecological, Social,
Economic, Political Factors, etc.
Agricultural Productivity
Adoption of biofortified crops
Value chains
Employment (youth))
Trade
Shocks
Livelihood
Strategies
Full Incomes
Savings/
Investment
Consumption
Well-being
Assets
Context: Ecological, Social,
Economic, Political Factors, etc.
• 30-80% of economically active women in Africa South of Sahara
are in agriculture
• Gender gaps in output/ha:13% (Uganda)-25% (Malawi);
• UN Women estimates closing gaps could increase crop outputs
2.1 % ($105M) in Tanzania, 2.8 % ($67M) in Uganda, 7.3 %
($100M) in Malawi.
• Recommendations: improve women’s access to
• Labor, esp. male labor
• High-value production
• Nonlabor inputs, esp. fertilizer, machinery (labor saving)
• These require:
• Changing norms of what is acceptable for women
• Access to producer groups (all women or mixed)
• Market access (for inputs and outputs)
• Women’s control over income
• Recognize women’s contributions to joint household plots
Agricultural Productivity (Doss and Quisumbing)
Shocks
Livelihood
Strategies
Full Incomes
Savings/
Investment
Consumption
Well-being
Assets
Context: Ecological, Social,
Economic, Political Factors, etc.
• Gender differences => production, marketing and
consumption decisions for rural households=>who
gains nutritional and economic benefits from the
biofortified crop.
• Need gender-sensitive information dissemination,
reach women with messaging through their
appropriate information channels, e.g. informal
social networks, clinics and radio.
• If men are responsible for cash crops, if
biofortified crops become more desirable in the
market, men may have greater decision-making
power over the disposition of the crop.
• Need to pay attention to evolving gender
dynamics once these crops are introduced
Adoption of biofortified crops
(Asare-Marfo, Lodin, Birol, Mudyahoto)
Shocks
Livelihood
Strategies
Full Incomes
Savings/
Investment
Consumption
Well-being
Assets
Context: Ecological, Social,
Economic, Political Factors, etc.
• Focus on value chains has shifted from a narrow
focus on women’s involvement to addressing
barriers and constraints for different nodes of value
chains, across sectors and enterprises
• Reducing inequality can improve competitiveness
and greater gender equity in economic participation
boosts economic growth
• Two key approaches
• Focus on value chains where women are heavily engaged
• Remove barriers for women’s participation and benefits
form high value chains where they are excluded
• Examples of what works
• Working with women’s groups and co-operatives
• Public private partnerships that have gender at core
• Integrated /bundled support services
Value chains (Rubin, Boonabaana, Manfre)
Shocks
Livelihood
Strategies
Full Incomes
Savings/
Investment
Consumption
Well-being
Assets
Context: Ecological, Social,
Economic, Political Factors, etc.
• Enhancing livelihood opportunities for rural African
youth need to address unique barriers faced by
young women and young men
• Young rural women, compared to men, transition to
adulthood with fewer resources, such as education
and land; their family responsibilities limit school
and paid employment opportunities.
• Patterns of economic change may be working
against African rural youth. At higher levels of
structural and rural transformation,
• landownership and current employment are lower
• more youth are not in employment, education, or training
• these outcomes are even less favorable among young
women.
• Interventions to improve youth livelihoods need to
consider productive AND reproductive
responsibilities of young women and men
Youth Employment (Heckert, Pereira, Doss, Myers,
Quisumbing)
Shocks
Livelihood
Strategies
Full Incomes
Savings/
Investment
Consumption
Well-being
Assets
Context: Ecological, Social,
Economic, Political Factors, etc.
• Men and women differ in ability to benefit from trade
• Case study of Niger: adopted ECOWAS Common
External Tariff (CET) to strengthen and accelerate
regional integration among 15 ECOWAS member
States.
• Women concentrated in a limited number of
economic activities, more exposed to regional and
international trade.
• Increased trade openness through CET would
widen employment levels and earning gaps between
men and women, because of lower supply response
of women-led activities compared to men.
• Gender disparities=>misallocation of resources in
the economy and loss in economic opportunity for
Niger. GDP lower by 17% because of gender
inequality
Trade (Fofana, Odjo, Traore)
Full IncomesShocks
Livelihood
Strategies
Full Incomes
Savings/
Investment
Consumption
Well-being
Assets
Context: Ecological, Social,
Economic, Political Factors, etc.
Income and control of
income
Shocks
Livelihood
Strategies
Full Incomes
Savings/
Investment
Consumption
Well-being
Assets
Context: Ecological, Social,
Economic, Political Factors, etc.
• Women entrepreneurs own 1/3 of businesses in
Africa, but concentrated in low-return, informal sector
• Women’s control of ag income far below their
contribution owing to smaller plot size, limited markets,
unpaid labor
• Implications for women’s empowerment, reinvestment,
food & nutrition security, poverty reduction
• Women more likely to control income from traditional
food crops, small livestock, small revenue streams,
local markets; lower control of income from high
revenue commodities.
• Promising interventions:
• Address household & community relations, norms
• Value chain contracts with women
• Commercial agriculture hiring women
• New payment methods enhancing women’s control
Income & control of income (Doss, Njuki, Boote)
Well-beingShocks
Livelihood
Strategies
Full Incomes
Savings/
Investment
Consumption
Well-being
Assets
Context: Ecological, Social,
Economic, Political Factors, etc.
Role of men in nutrition
Empowerment
Shocks
Livelihood
Strategies
Full Incomes
Savings/
Investment
Consumption
Well-being
Assets
Context: Ecological, Social,
Economic, Political Factors, etc.
• Nutrition policies can improve gender equality
and malnutrition outcomes simultaneously
• Men have an important supportive role to play in
maternal and child nutrition
• Men’s role in nutrition can foster cooperation
between men and women
• As the custodians of culture, traditional leaders
can positively influence gender equality and
nutrition outcomes
• Policymakers need to work with gender experts
to strengthen the integration of gender across all
levels of policy
Role of men in nutrition (Mkandawire and Hendriks)
Shocks
Livelihood
Strategies
Full Incomes
Savings/
Investment
Consumption
Well-being
Assets
Context: Ecological, Social,
Economic, Political Factors, etc.
• Measured using the Women’s Empowerment in
Agriculture Index (WEAI)
• Main sources of disempowerment in 7 countries:
• Access to and decisions on credit
• Control over use of income
• Excessive workload
• Top sources of disempowerment: important role
of women as agricultural producers and
intrahousehold tensions regarding the control of
income to which women contribute as income
earners.
Empowerment (Meinzen-Dick et al)
Shocks
Livelihood
Strategies
Full Incomes
Savings/
Investment
Consumption
Well-being
Assets
Context: Ecological, Social,
Economic, Political Factors, etc.
• Gender gaps in assets, livelihood strategies, and control
over income impose costs on individuals, households,
communities, nations
• Conceptual framework shows connections among these
elements for interventions`
• Reinforcing effect of changes in social norms +
women's control over land & resources + financial
inclusion increasing value of women’s ag
production consumption and investment
patternswomen’s empowerment
• Women’s assets contribute to resilience; insurance and
social protection affect livelihood strategies
• Structural transformations of economynegative effect
on women’s land rights, young women’s employment
• Gender ≠ women; need to recognize jointness, engage
men to change social norms, improve outcomes for all
• Structures must change to achieve gender equality: we
don’t need to “fix” women, we need to build systems that
work for them.
CONCLUSIONS

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Gender Equality in Rural Africa: From Commitments to Outcomes

  • 1. Gender Equality in Rural Africa: From Commitments to Outcomes 2019 Annual Trends and Outlook Report (ATOR) Editors Agnes Quisumbing, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, and Jemimah Njuki
  • 2. • Resolve to ensure, through “deliberate and targeted public support,” that all segments of the African populations, “women, the youth, and other disadvantaged sectors,” must “participate and directly benefit from the growth and transformation opportunities to improve their lives and livelihoods.” • Commitment to halve poverty by 2025 through inclusive agricultural growth and transformation explicitly states that governments would support and facilitate preferential entry and participation for women and youth in gainful and attractive agri-business opportunities. • To meet overall Malabo commitments: Need to address gender The Malabo Declaration Commitments
  • 3. • Both men and women engaged in agriculture: 62% of economically active women are in agriculture • Gender barriers in the sector include unequal access to resources, gaps in productivity: limit sector growth • Addressing gender inequalities increases opportunities for agricultural transformation Why a focus on Gender Equality in Rural Africa
  • 5. Shocks Livelihood Strategies Full Incomes Savings/ Investment Consumption Well-being Assets Context: Ecological, Social, Economic, Political Factors, etc. Context: Ecological, Social, Economic, Political Factors, etc. Social norms Leadership Data
  • 6. • Gender norms are important, invisible barriers that can undermine women's economic empowerment. They relate to social expectations influencing behaviors and practices. • Shifting social norms can be as influential as monetary incentives or policy prescriptions in influencing behavior at scale. • A social norms approach needs deliberate investments of time and resources and community mobilization, which is not easy to scale • Shifting gender norms requires formative research, a community-mobilization intervention, engagement with community leaders, and space and repeated instances for dialogue and debate. Shocks Livelihood Strategies Full Incomes Savings/ Investment Consumption Well-being Assets Context: Ecological, Social, Economic, Political Factors, etc. Social norms (Miruka and Hillenbrand)
  • 7. Shocks Livelihood Strategies Full Incomes Savings/ Investment Consumption Well-being Assets Context: Ecological, Social, Economic, Political Factors, etc. Leadership (Mbo’o-Tchouawou, Beyene, Mulei, Kamau- Rutenberg) • Lack of gender parity in political and agricultural leadership in the continent, despite evidence suggesting gender diversity in leadership contributes to organizational growth • Leaky pipeline of African agricultural scientists - particularly women and their representation in leadership positions in agricultural institutions • ~~24 percent of total agricultural researchers employed at a senior level in 2014 were female (Beintema 2017). • Creating an enabling environment to provide a level playing field for all, especially women and youth by removing systemic barriers that constrain women from taking on leadership positions, and collecting evidence of transformative leadership • Call for making leaders in both research and policymaking accountable for gender equality
  • 8. Shocks Livelihood Strategies Full Incomes Savings/ Investment Consumption Well-being Assets Context: Ecological, Social, Economic, Political Factors, etc. Data on many aspects of rural African women and girls’ lives are lacking. We need this to: • account for ALL of women’s work • help improve women’s productivity and food security and nutrition • better understand and more effectively tackle poverty. Women’s economic and social roles are interdependent; it is difficult to separate a woman’s individual experience from her household Sex disaggregation of key indicators remains a major challenge. To improve sex-disaggregated data collection and use, must build connections between data producers and policy makers to inform nuanced policies that can deliver for rural women and girls. Data (Buvinic and Carey)
  • 10. Shocks Livelihood Strategies Full Incomes Savings/ Investment Consumption Well-being Assets Context: Ecological, Social, Economic, Political Factors, etc. • Despite recent gender-friendly land reforms in Africa, women’s land rights remain insecure • Population pressure, commercialization of agriculture, commodification of land, increased land values => eroding women’s land rights • Increased scrutiny of customary land tenure vs. govt intervention • Prioritize hot spot areas (high or rising land values) for gender sensitive land tenure regularization programs • Leave alone functional customary tenure systems in areas with lower land values (relatively land-abundant settings) • Complement land rights protection programs with explicit provisions for women’s land rights and legal literacy programs not only to maximize the potential gender parity outcomes of such programs but also ensure their sustainability. Land (Ghebru)
  • 11. Shocks Livelihood Strategies Full Incomes Savings/ Investment Consumption Well-being Assets Context: Ecological, Social, Economic, Political Factors, etc. • Importance of women’s financial inclusion for agriculture, enterprises, but limited by constraints of time, legal rights, human capacity, security concerns, lack of money • 6-19% women smallholders; 14-34% entrepreneurs have formal bank account • Promising financial innovations: • Microfinance Institutions, Village Savings and Loan Associations • Mobile banking • Integrated micro-insurance programs • Fintech to provide credit scores for smallholder women • Agency banking: roaming staff increase women’s access • Gender transformative financial inclusion: making financial systems “womanable” not women “bankable” • Changing rules & practices, regulatory systems & social norms • Changing women’s skills, knowledge, resources to empower • Changing relationships in household, market, community Financial capital (Njuki and Melesse)
  • 12. ShocksShocks Livelihood Strategies Full Incomes Savings/ Investment Consumption Well-being Assets Context: Ecological, Social, Economic, Political Factors, etc. Resilience to climate and other shocks Social safety nets
  • 13. Shocks Livelihood Strategies Full Incomes Savings/ Investment Consumption Well-being Assets Context: Ecological, Social, Economic, Political Factors, etc. • Capacities, preferences, and needs related to resilience differ between groups of people, especially along lines of gender and social difference • Interventions need processes to recognize and address these differences in specific settings and to tap into skills and contributions of women and marginalized groups. • Processes must include assessment of gender differences in: • exposure and sensitivity to shocks and stressors, • resilience capacities, • preferences, responses, and well-being outcomes • Once local constraints are identified, use approaches for gender-responsive resilience programming, including supporting key livelihood activities of both women and men, and promoting inclusive decision-making at the household and community levels. Resilience to climate and other shocks (Theis, Bryan, Ringler)
  • 14. Shocks Livelihood Strategies Full Incomes Savings/ Investment Consumption Well-being Assets Context: Ecological, Social, Economic, Political Factors, etc. Social safety nets are important in Africa, but significant evidence gaps remain Strong evidence: SSN in Africa can decrease intimate partner violence, increase psychological well-being for women, and increase economic standing, with minimal changes in labor force participation Less evidence: SSN empower women, but studies limited by measurement concerns Some evidence: SSN improve women’s dietary diversity Limited evidence: impacts on women’s food security or nutritional biomarkers. Two big evidence gaps: non-cash modalities; unpacking contribution of key program design elements Need to invest in higher quality evidence generation, to demonstrate impacts on women’s well-being and to know how impacts differ by local underlying gender inequalities Social safety nets (Peterman, Kumar, Pereira, Gilligan)
  • 15. Livelihood StrategiesShocks Livelihood Strategies Full Incomes Savings/ Investment Consumption Well-being Assets Context: Ecological, Social, Economic, Political Factors, etc. Agricultural Productivity Adoption of biofortified crops Value chains Employment (youth)) Trade
  • 16. Shocks Livelihood Strategies Full Incomes Savings/ Investment Consumption Well-being Assets Context: Ecological, Social, Economic, Political Factors, etc. • 30-80% of economically active women in Africa South of Sahara are in agriculture • Gender gaps in output/ha:13% (Uganda)-25% (Malawi); • UN Women estimates closing gaps could increase crop outputs 2.1 % ($105M) in Tanzania, 2.8 % ($67M) in Uganda, 7.3 % ($100M) in Malawi. • Recommendations: improve women’s access to • Labor, esp. male labor • High-value production • Nonlabor inputs, esp. fertilizer, machinery (labor saving) • These require: • Changing norms of what is acceptable for women • Access to producer groups (all women or mixed) • Market access (for inputs and outputs) • Women’s control over income • Recognize women’s contributions to joint household plots Agricultural Productivity (Doss and Quisumbing)
  • 17. Shocks Livelihood Strategies Full Incomes Savings/ Investment Consumption Well-being Assets Context: Ecological, Social, Economic, Political Factors, etc. • Gender differences => production, marketing and consumption decisions for rural households=>who gains nutritional and economic benefits from the biofortified crop. • Need gender-sensitive information dissemination, reach women with messaging through their appropriate information channels, e.g. informal social networks, clinics and radio. • If men are responsible for cash crops, if biofortified crops become more desirable in the market, men may have greater decision-making power over the disposition of the crop. • Need to pay attention to evolving gender dynamics once these crops are introduced Adoption of biofortified crops (Asare-Marfo, Lodin, Birol, Mudyahoto)
  • 18. Shocks Livelihood Strategies Full Incomes Savings/ Investment Consumption Well-being Assets Context: Ecological, Social, Economic, Political Factors, etc. • Focus on value chains has shifted from a narrow focus on women’s involvement to addressing barriers and constraints for different nodes of value chains, across sectors and enterprises • Reducing inequality can improve competitiveness and greater gender equity in economic participation boosts economic growth • Two key approaches • Focus on value chains where women are heavily engaged • Remove barriers for women’s participation and benefits form high value chains where they are excluded • Examples of what works • Working with women’s groups and co-operatives • Public private partnerships that have gender at core • Integrated /bundled support services Value chains (Rubin, Boonabaana, Manfre)
  • 19. Shocks Livelihood Strategies Full Incomes Savings/ Investment Consumption Well-being Assets Context: Ecological, Social, Economic, Political Factors, etc. • Enhancing livelihood opportunities for rural African youth need to address unique barriers faced by young women and young men • Young rural women, compared to men, transition to adulthood with fewer resources, such as education and land; their family responsibilities limit school and paid employment opportunities. • Patterns of economic change may be working against African rural youth. At higher levels of structural and rural transformation, • landownership and current employment are lower • more youth are not in employment, education, or training • these outcomes are even less favorable among young women. • Interventions to improve youth livelihoods need to consider productive AND reproductive responsibilities of young women and men Youth Employment (Heckert, Pereira, Doss, Myers, Quisumbing)
  • 20. Shocks Livelihood Strategies Full Incomes Savings/ Investment Consumption Well-being Assets Context: Ecological, Social, Economic, Political Factors, etc. • Men and women differ in ability to benefit from trade • Case study of Niger: adopted ECOWAS Common External Tariff (CET) to strengthen and accelerate regional integration among 15 ECOWAS member States. • Women concentrated in a limited number of economic activities, more exposed to regional and international trade. • Increased trade openness through CET would widen employment levels and earning gaps between men and women, because of lower supply response of women-led activities compared to men. • Gender disparities=>misallocation of resources in the economy and loss in economic opportunity for Niger. GDP lower by 17% because of gender inequality Trade (Fofana, Odjo, Traore)
  • 21. Full IncomesShocks Livelihood Strategies Full Incomes Savings/ Investment Consumption Well-being Assets Context: Ecological, Social, Economic, Political Factors, etc. Income and control of income
  • 22. Shocks Livelihood Strategies Full Incomes Savings/ Investment Consumption Well-being Assets Context: Ecological, Social, Economic, Political Factors, etc. • Women entrepreneurs own 1/3 of businesses in Africa, but concentrated in low-return, informal sector • Women’s control of ag income far below their contribution owing to smaller plot size, limited markets, unpaid labor • Implications for women’s empowerment, reinvestment, food & nutrition security, poverty reduction • Women more likely to control income from traditional food crops, small livestock, small revenue streams, local markets; lower control of income from high revenue commodities. • Promising interventions: • Address household & community relations, norms • Value chain contracts with women • Commercial agriculture hiring women • New payment methods enhancing women’s control Income & control of income (Doss, Njuki, Boote)
  • 23. Well-beingShocks Livelihood Strategies Full Incomes Savings/ Investment Consumption Well-being Assets Context: Ecological, Social, Economic, Political Factors, etc. Role of men in nutrition Empowerment
  • 24. Shocks Livelihood Strategies Full Incomes Savings/ Investment Consumption Well-being Assets Context: Ecological, Social, Economic, Political Factors, etc. • Nutrition policies can improve gender equality and malnutrition outcomes simultaneously • Men have an important supportive role to play in maternal and child nutrition • Men’s role in nutrition can foster cooperation between men and women • As the custodians of culture, traditional leaders can positively influence gender equality and nutrition outcomes • Policymakers need to work with gender experts to strengthen the integration of gender across all levels of policy Role of men in nutrition (Mkandawire and Hendriks)
  • 25. Shocks Livelihood Strategies Full Incomes Savings/ Investment Consumption Well-being Assets Context: Ecological, Social, Economic, Political Factors, etc. • Measured using the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) • Main sources of disempowerment in 7 countries: • Access to and decisions on credit • Control over use of income • Excessive workload • Top sources of disempowerment: important role of women as agricultural producers and intrahousehold tensions regarding the control of income to which women contribute as income earners. Empowerment (Meinzen-Dick et al)
  • 26. Shocks Livelihood Strategies Full Incomes Savings/ Investment Consumption Well-being Assets Context: Ecological, Social, Economic, Political Factors, etc. • Gender gaps in assets, livelihood strategies, and control over income impose costs on individuals, households, communities, nations • Conceptual framework shows connections among these elements for interventions` • Reinforcing effect of changes in social norms + women's control over land & resources + financial inclusion increasing value of women’s ag production consumption and investment patternswomen’s empowerment • Women’s assets contribute to resilience; insurance and social protection affect livelihood strategies • Structural transformations of economynegative effect on women’s land rights, young women’s employment • Gender ≠ women; need to recognize jointness, engage men to change social norms, improve outcomes for all • Structures must change to achieve gender equality: we don’t need to “fix” women, we need to build systems that work for them. CONCLUSIONS

Hinweis der Redaktion

  1. Specific norms that apply to the agriculture sector gendered crops (categorization of “men’s” and “women’s” crops, segregation of food and cash crops; women as “farmers’ wives,” ; occupational segregation; valuation of skills required for productive work; property and inheritance rights
  2. Various efforts since 2012 to improve collection of data on African women and girls Including: 2102 the development of the Women Empowerment in Agriculture index and its derivatives The 2013, The Minimum Set of Gender Indicators includes a call for information on women’s wages and their work in agriculture In 2015 SDG goals and indicators call for the sex-disaggregation of data on a broad range of topics including assets, livelihoods, institutional contexts, and those which reveal women’s vulnerability In 2017, the 2020 Round of Agricultural Census guidelines on collection of data on managerial decisions and the identification of ownership by
  3. Land governance reforms in Africa recognize a range of tenure types, not just titling
  4. Measurement challenges, piecemeal approaches: gap in land or labor productivity don’t account for other inputs, other tasks women do, constraints to women’s marketing, or livestock Last point is that don’t just focus on women in women-managed plots; they also contribute labor and decision-making on “male” or “joint” managed plots
  5. Possibility use this to highlight importance of control of income in talk
  6. Emphasize can’t change gender norms by dealing with women alone. Have to bring men on board