challenges of gender mainstreamed analyses and development interventions in the bangladesh delta...
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Douglas Beare presents 'Challenges of Gender Mainstreamed Analyses and Development Interventions in the Bangladesh Delta Landscape' at the at the Climate-Smart Agriculture, Global Science Conference, held at the University of California, Davis, from the 20th - 22nd March, 2013.TRANSCRIPT
Challenges of Gender MainstreamedAnalyses and Development InterventionsIn the Bangladesh Delta Landscape
18 March 2013 – Doug Beare, Ranjitha Puskur, PaulaKantor, Melody Braun and Afrina Choudhury
WHY ?
• Why bother with gender and inequality within the general science of poverty reduction and improved nutrition ? http://www.unsystem.org/SCN/archives/scnnewsextractsmay91/begin.htm
WHAT perpetuates this situation ?
• Socially Constructed Gender Norms and Attitudes;
• Challenge is Multi-dimensional;
• Everyone must Buy-In and Get-It;
• That includes us.
Example of a seasonal daily activities of women and men in Dzinavene, Chivi District, Zimbabwe
Increasing female agency equals more food (economic) production ?
• FAO report on Women in Agriculture- Closing the gender gap for development
Approach must be subtle• A man who consults his wife on
decisions appears weak• A husband and wife should decide
together on how to spend money• Women should not be harassed, even
if they are walking in a public place by themselves
• Men can take care of children just as well as women can
• It is embarrassing for a man to help his wife with household work
• Women are inferior to men in the creator’s eyes
• A woman’s greatest happiness in life comes from being a good mother and wife
Husbands’ reported support during and after pregnancy, by husband’s occupation
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30
40
50
60
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74.5
60.5 59.8
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63.2
Pregnancy Post-pregnancy
perc
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ges
Nobo Jibon Survey in Bangladesh
• Survey divided into Joint and Nuclear Families;
• Nutritional Knowledge Poor;• Husbands and MILs Know
Less than Wives;• Decisions Should be Made
Jointly – Good Starting Point.• Appeal to Other Parts of The
Female Identity, eg. Roles as Mothers;
• More Violence in Nuclear Families. If w
ife go
es ou
t with
out te
lling h
usband
If she
negle
cts th
e chil
dren
If she
argue
s with
her h
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ave s
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ith hi
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does
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bey el
ders
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mily0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
20%16%
34%
3%
36%
26%
17%
37%
18%
47%50% 51%
66%
26%
72%
Situations in which wife-beating is justifiable
Husband Mother-in-law Wife
CCAFs is directly funding two WorldFish projects in the Bangladesh Delta Landscape which more directly address gender issues; The Smart Farm
• Fish/rice systems • Vertical horticulture
CCAFs is directly funding two WorldFish projects in the Bangladesh Delta Landscape which more directly address gender issues; Cage Aquaculture
More ‘general’ tactics of Nobo Jibon with more specific tech innovations