Gender Analysis of Agricultural Value Chains

a practitioner perspective

By Angelica SendersFair and Sustainable Advisory Services/ ICCO

May 25, 2011

Gender Sensitive Value Chain development

• Aims at contributing to women’s empowerment and gender equality

• For this we need to know – what are the gender inequalities in the value

chain– What are their causes – What are the Gender Based Constraints: what

prevents this chain to work for women– What are opportunities to change this

• The ICRW tool will be a great help in this!

Take phasing into account• Different objectives and thus research

questions• In the different phases of the intervention

value chain development• These objectives will be each time more

specific: 1. Selection of Value chains

2. Analysis of value chains

3. Definining upgrading strategies/ interventions

4. Monitoring, evaluation and learning

A practitioners perspective

Increased focus of the analysis

M&E

Shaping the intervention

Analysis if one specific VC

Selection of the VC

Analysis

• Describe and understand• Identify the action perspective• Shape the intervention/ what is needed in

this value chain? – Capacity building

– Partnership building

– Sensitization

– Technology

– …..

• Identify how we can contribute to this

Action learning

• Analysis is not a one-off activity

• But continuous in repeating cycles of action learning

• Not one tool but a Toolbox

AnalysisImplementation

Planning

Analysis for success!

• Monitor whether we are likely to achieve our gender objectives

• Describe and share lessons learned

• Try to close the gap between

the gender sensitive analysis and the succesfull gender intervention