gender mainstreaming at ata: current and future directions

Gender mainstreaming at ATA: Current and future directions

Livestock and Fish Gender Working Group Workshop and Planning MeetingAddis Ababa, Ethiopia, 14-18 October 2013

Zemzem Muhammed

Agenda

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1. Mandates of ATA

2. Gender equality in ATA

3. Deliverable 2013₋ Joint needs assessment of AGP regions₋ Key findings₋ Specific deliverables₋ Status

4. Gender in Value Chain ₋ Current practices₋ Challenges₋ Learning

5. Future Direction

6. Conclusion

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The creation of the ATA is the result of a process that lasted nearly two years

Jan ‘09 Sep ‘09 Aug ‘10 Oct ‘10 Dec ‘10 Aug ‘11

Late Prime Minster Meles meets with Melinda Gates and requests a review of Ethiopia’s agricultural extension systems by the Gates

Foundation

Seven Diagnostic reports and an integrated report on a

mechanism to implement the recommendations submitted to

Prime Minister

Council of Ministers pass federal regulation establishing

Agricultural Transformation Agency

Government decision to create an independent

organization modeled after Taiwan and Korean

“acceleration units” as recommended by the Gates

Foundation reports

First Agricultural Transformation Council (Board) meeting chaired

by the Prime Minister held, inaugurating ATA’s

program operations

Recommendations of extension diagnostic endorsed

by PM. PM requests support for

additional diagnostics in seeds, soils, irrigation, agricultural

finance, and key value chains

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The process that led to the creation of the ATA identified some key issues that needed to be addressed for Ethiopia to reach its agricultural development targets

Current situation:• Agriculture accounts for

over 40% of national GDP - the largest portion of the economy

• Smallholder farmers account for over 90% of agriculture production

• Rapid growth in the agriculture sector over the past 10 years has contributed to a reduction of poverty, from nearly 40% of population to less than 30%

• However, gains are uneven• Ethiopia’s productivity

levels continue to be among the lowest in Africa

• Many smallholder farmers continue to produce for subsistence

• Increasing concerns about smallholder farmers ability to mitigate the risks related to climate change

Two high level bottlenecks were identified as key

challenges in reaching the vision

• Lack of capacity to identify tailor-made solutions for the key systemic bottlenecks in the agriculture sector

• Lack of capacity to effectively coordinate and drive the implementation of a holistic set of interventions that will transform the system and bring impact at scale

Ultimate Vision:• Agriculture productivity

levels for all key crops above the average of African countries and rivaling Asian levels

• Commercialization of most smallholder farmers in key crops and geographies through effective linkage to domestic and international demand sinks

• Increases in smallholder farmer productivity and incomes leads to reduction of national poverty level approaching or less than 10% of the population

• Agriculture-led industrialization leads to national middle income status by 2025

ATA was created to address these bottlenecks

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The ATA was created to address the bottlenecks identified in the Gates diagnostic through a clear mandate which it aims to achieve using a three-part strategy, which is executed by a strong organization, with clear targets and a robust performance management system that tracks progress

The ATA is a time-bound government organization whose mandate is to:

1) Support our partners in developing and implementing solutions to systemic bottlenecks in order to transform the

agriculture sector, coupled with; 2) Support the implementation of a targeted set of integrated interventions that

will make immediate impact for a large number of smallholder farmers in Ethiopia

The ATA works with its partners on four specific types of activities:• Problem Solving • Implementation

Support• Capacity Building• Coordination

The ATA’s engagements take place across a targeted set of issues and geographies:• Value chains• Systems• Crosscutting issues• Special projects• ClustersWith prioritized levels of support

All of the ATA’s work takes place through constructive partnerships with others:• Transformation Council• Ministry of Agriculture• Regional Bureaus of Ag.• Development partners• Private Sector• NGOs• Others

We work towards our Mandate…

…via a three- part Strategy...

…which is underpinned by a high-performing Organization, clear Target Setting, and a robust Performance Management system

ATA aims to put together a high-performing organization with a clear structure, expert staff, strong systems and processes, as well as a well-defined set of shared values to drive the agricultural transformation process

What does the ATA actually do to achieve its

mandate?

Where does the ATA work?

How does the ATA work relative to

others?

ATA works with all partners to develop clear targets for interventions that will lead to agricultural transformation

ATA is developing a robust performance management system for its internal operations and is working with the Ministry of Agriculture and other partners to strengthen the performance management system of the sector

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Strategy Pillar I – The ATA uses four different tools to achieve its mandate

Problem Solving Implementation Support

Capacity Building

Stakeholder Coordination

How: Rigorous data-driven

and objective analysis to determine root causes of issues; examination of international and domestic best practices; and granular refinement of solutions to ensure adaptation of solutions to specific agroecologies and Ethiopia’s unique context

When: 1. During the analytical

period in Stage 1 of a program

2. During the implementation of an intervention

How: Through pre-

defined levels of support based on the prioritization of a deliverable on the national transformation agenda

When: 1. During initial

interventions undertaken during Stage 1 of a program

2. During implementation of interventions during Stage 2 of a program

How: Workshops, working groups, and

frequent engagement with partners during strategy development

Implementation platforms and steering committees

When: 1. During the analytics and problem

solving phases in both Stage 1 & 22. During the implementation of an

intervention in both Stage 1 & 2

How: Capacity building by partnership as

ATA staff work closely with partners on deliverable execution

Availing specific tools and expertise to implementing partners

Fellowship program and secondments (in future)

When: 1. During the analytics and problem

solving phases in both Stage 1 & 22. During the implementation of an

intervention in both Stage 1 & 2

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Strategy Pillar II – Although the ATA is a national organization working across the entire agriculture sector, in 2013 it will focus on certain target value chains, geographies, and program areas

Value Chains

Systems Crosscutting Issues Special Projects

Geographies Integrated activites in 2013

Tef Wheat Maize

Targeted activities in 2013 Sesame Barley Rotation crops

Late 2013 and 2014 Coffee Livestock

Seed Soil Cooperatives Input & Output Markets Research & Extension Markets Household Irrigation

Gender Mainstreaming Climate Change & Environment Technology Access & Adoption Information & Communication

Technology Integration Monitoring, Learning &

Evaluation

High priority in 2013: 160 Tef woredas 47 Maize woredas 41 Wheat woredas

Secondary priority in 2013: 12 Sesame woredas 58 coffee woredas

Public Private Partnerships

Under review Strategic Grain Reserve Agro-processing Home-grown school

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Gender equality in ATA is part of the special initiative program

Gender is a cross-cutting issue which needs to be integrated in all organizational policies, strategies, programs, systems and accountability structures

The gender program in ATA employs two major approaches with particular emphasis on mainstreaming of gender in the value chains to make sure that women farmers are proactively engaged and benefited from programs, enhancing the sensitivity of various systems to facilitate participation and benefit of women and consideration of gender dimension employed to address gender issues

The second approach is supporting the implementation of specific or standalone projects which specifically address and empower rural women.

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Gender in Agricultural Transformation Agency

ATA acknowledges the existence of social inequalities within rural Ethiopian communities due to biological differences (e.g. sex ) and socio-economic status; this determines access to opportunities, services and resources.

As a transformation agency, ATA believes that achieving sustainable development is impossible without addressing the inequalities which hinder people from accessing opportunities and utilizing their potential to change their own situation.

Gender based inequality cuts across all inequalities, deepens the disadvantages of individuals and communities, and reinforces poverty.

ATA works to provide Ethiopia’s smallholder farmers with access to new and improved technologies and techniques, proven economic mechanisms, and strengthened infrastructure and systems. The aim of all ATA efforts is to help increase farmer productivity and improve livelihoods. Women represent half of smallholder farmers and therefore constitutes the key target population of ATA’s engagements.

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Rational for addressing Gender in ATA

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Why do we need to focus on gender equality?

Justice and human rights• Women represent half the world population yet their participation in different arenas is limited

and their current profile is very low in many respects as compared to their male counter parts

Cross-cutting nature of gender inequality• Gender cuts across every inequality issue and affect groups who are disadvantaged; it also

deepens their level of disadvantage

Development concern• Human centered development thinking acknowledges the potential of both men and women for

development and by the same logic development needs to enhance the wellbeing of both • Efficiency and Effectiveness – due to limited education, training and exposure opportunity of

women and girls and also lack of technologies or facilities which can fit their needs, their level of contribution in terms of quality and higher result is restrained

• Sustainability – ideas and better practices sustain when they get buy-in by all people but many development programs lose sight of women and girls

• Chain Reaction – studies show that women’s education and economic empowerment results in the improvement of the child upbringing, nutrition, family health which in turn will bring over all development

Accountability• The development of the concept of accountability which includes downward/forward

accountability. For all development investments to be accountable, they need to be accountable to both men and women

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Women farmers’ needs are not understood and addressed in the agriculture sector.

In Ethiopia, women account for 60-80% of food production, thus agricultural output could potentially be increased by 15-40% just by providing women with assets equal to those of men.

Women farmers’ productivity remains low relative to their potential. They lack access to credit, extension, inputs, and markets and their domestic roles limit their available time.

Investing in rural women has the potential to accelerate growth as they represent a significant share of the workforce, manage resources carefully, and invest in children.

Source: USAID Feed the Future (FTF) FY 2010 Implementation Plan - Ethiopia

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Addressing the massive gender gaps in Ethiopia is a priority for agricultural transformation because of the benefits to smallholder farmer productivity and profitability.

At the national level, reducing gender inequalities increases annual GDP growth

At a farmer level, there are significant productivity returns to increasing the human

and physical capital of women farmersIn Ethiopia, the agriculture sector accounts for approximately 50% of GDP with 6% average annual growth.

Economist at the World Bank have estimated that in Ethiopia, the annual GDP growth could increase by around 1.9 percentage points* by reducing basic gender inequalities in education and the labor market.

Currently, Ethiopia ranks at the bottom of the World Economic Forum Global Gender Gap Index at 118 of 135 overall. Factors include economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival, and political empowerment.

When women farmershave the following:

The age, education, and input levels of men farmers

Yields increases by:

22%

The same land area as men farmers

10.5%

The fertilizer level used by men farmers 1.6%

Source: Development Economics LDB Database; World Bank Ethiopia CPS, 2012; World Bank Toolkit for Gender and Agriculture

*The calculated annual GDP growth was derived from macroeconomic analysis conducted in 2008 by World Bank Senior Economists including Markus Goldstein.

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The Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP) sets clear objectives and targets to ensure that women, men and youth farmers participate and benefit in the agricultural sector.

• The National Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP) has identified promoting gender and youth empowerment and equity as one of the seven key strategies identified to achieve sustainable rapid and broad-based growth path (GTP main document page 22).

• In order to realize this pillar objective and strategy, the main approaches are:– strengthening women’s institutions, – implementing specific packages, and – ensuring participation and benefit of women.

• In addition, targeting 30% female headed households and 10% youth under 30 in any extension service is clearly highlighted and any actor involved in the extension service provision is expected to consider this national direction.10%

30%

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The primary approach to address gender issues in value chain programs is though gender mainstreaming.

• The process of assessing the implications of any planned action on women and men including legislation, policies or programs, in any area and at all levels.

• It is a strategy for making the concerns and experiences of women as well as of men an integral part of the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies and programs in political, economic and societal spheres, so that women and men benefit equally, and inequality is not perpetuated.

• The ultimate goal of mainstreaming is to achieve gender equality (ECOSOC, 1997).

What is gender mainstreaming?

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The overall objective of gender mainstreaming at the organizational level is to ensure that programs, organizational practices, leadership and partnerships promote gender equality.

• Understand the existing situation of men, women, and youth and their participation, capacity, challenges and opportunities in the

specific program context• Set appropriate targeting of married women, female headed

households and young women and men• Identify and address common and specific needs which enhance

participation and benefit• Enhance staff knowledge and provide guidelines and checklists

Programs: Ensure women and youth are

purposely targeted in the programs supported by ATA

• Promote gender equality through the human resource management policy and practice

• Create an organizational culture to uphold the equality principle; actively communicate

• Create strong accountability mechanisms to ensure that staff are hold responsible for gender mainstreaming results

• Develop an MLE system with the inclusion of gender in the results framework, planning and reporting formats, project appraisal

checklists and log-frames, assessments, etc.

Organizational practices: Create an organization that

proactively promotes gender equality

• Communicate the leadership commitment on gender mainstreaming to the staff

• Putt in place strong linkage and accountability mechanism to gender equality commitments

• Exhibit consistency in providing guidance and enforcing the policy objective

Leadership: Enhance leadership commitment

• Ensure that commitment on gender mainstreaming is incorporated in partnership selection criteria

• Adequately incorporate role of partners in addressing the issue of gender in MOU and ensure the necessary resource is allocated

• Capacitate partners to adequately address gender issues • Facilitate learning session among partners and other stakeholders

Partnerships: Advance the gender equality objective

in ATA’s partnership procedure and relation

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Ensure ATA’s programs address the needs of women, men and youth smallholder farmers through gender mainstreaming, integration and specific interventions.

The Gender Program Team at ATA ensures that women, men and youth farmers participate and benefit from agricultural transformation through increased productivity and income.

Women, men and youth smallholder farmers sustainably increase their productivity and profitability through overcoming gender constraints.

Address systemic level bottlenecks in the agriculture sector through problem solving, implementation support, capacity building and stakeholder coordination on gender issues.

Vision

Mission

Approach

Ethiopian Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP)

Requires targeting 30% female headed households and 10% youth under age 30 for agricultural extension services.

30%

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Gender inequality is reinforced

Societal role allocation among men and

women and the value attached to each role

Determines level of access and control

over resources, services and decisions

Limited opportunity for personal development

and unable to understand and

challenge inequalities

Malignant difference in status; they have no vision other than the

one set by the society

Patriarchal system

perpetuated

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Capacity Needs Assessment Findings

Strength

Gender equality and participation of women farmers part of the five year plan

Staff assigned in RBOA and FCA( except in Amhara) and member of management in Oromiya and SNNP

Linkage between the gender unit and others Reporting formats capture sex disaggregated

data Linkage/collaboration with BOWCA

Weakness/Area of improvement

Gaps in Woreda level structures No comprehensive analysis done to inform

planning and track progresses No regionally customized gender audit Poor documentation practice Weak coordination among different

stakeholders

Opportunity

Gender being part of the GTP and other national level frameworks

BOWCYA and WA part of regional command post

The availability of NGOs and other actors working in the area

The land use and certification program Development groups and networks

Threat

The entrenched patriarchal system and associated resistance

Resource

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Gender issues across the components of the value chain

Technology Research & Promotion

Input Supply

Input Distribution

& Access

On-farm Production

Access to Post-harvest Technology

Market Linkages

Demand Sinks

Development

▪ Identifying the kind of input they need, capacities, constraints & opportunities to access & addressing constraints

▪ Agricultural inputs/seed, fertilizer, mechanization technology become available to both women and men

▪ Research agendas incorporate both women and men concerns

▪ Technology development consider accessibility and applicability for both women and men

▪ Developing and disseminating need based technology which considers the labor issue

▪ Women farmers access to various inputs is facilitated through addressing hindrances lack of awareness, credit, etc.

▪ Assess and ensure appropriate utilization of input by both women and men

▪ Extension services target women farmers to ensure that they gain knowledge and implement appropriate agronomic practices

▪ Increase participation of women farmers by identifying appropriate time and place for training

▪ Both women and men have access to knowledge and technologies for processing and storage which reduces losses

▪ Women farmers capacity to use post harvest technologies, value addition and storage

▪ Identify opportunities for value addition and facilitate support

▪ Access market for better return through assessing and addressing gender related constraints

▪ Enabling women to participate in farmer institutions, have access to market information and facilitate linkage

▪ Investigation of access to input and output markets by both women and men

Source: Gender Program Team Analysis

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The objective of gender mainstreaming in value chain programs is to ensure the participation and benefit of women, men and youth farmers.

The gender mainstreaming effort in the value chain ensures that women farmers are purposely targeted across all components of the value chain through identifying and addressing constraints which hamper their participation and benefit.

Targeting

Women farmers particularly female-headed households are targeted in the on-farm demonstrations and through all components of the value chain programs.

Women farmers in male-headed households will also be targeted in the value chain programs depending on the level of their involvement in the different components of the value chain.

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Background information on the situation of women farmers in the value chain programs

n TrformationPlan (GTP) Women farmers, in both female-headed households and male-headed households,

participate in various value chains but their benefits are not proportional to their contributions. This is due to different gender-based constraints and a lack of proactive engagement to address these constraints in various components of the value chains.

There is a tendency to limit women farmers’ involvement to specific value chains like vegetable and poultry; there is a lack of acknowledgment women farmers’ contributions in the primary agricultural crops (i.e. wheat, maize, tef.)

The key gender issues across the value chain programs are summarized in the following diagram.

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Specific actions identified for the ATA Wheat Initiative

Target women farmers for the on-farm demonstration( Bench mark farmers) / 30% GTP targeting

Target women in male headed households for agronomic practice training and awareness raising trainings

Prepare communications materials that are appropriate for low literacy levels and determine the delivery method in terms of selecting the venue, time and setting given the triple roles of women and their safety concerns

Make mechanical technologies accessible and applicable to women farmers

Include gender units in the RBOA as part of the regional working group

Conduct a gender analysis in a sample of potential areas to identify the key challenges that prevent female headed households from participating in the on-farm demonstrations


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Challenges and learning from the current practice

The engagement of the GPT focuses on the following points: - Ensuring the inclusion of the gender component in sector strategies ,

program plans and proposals developed for fund raising - Session on gender included in DA and SMS trainings and stakeholder

workshops(to a limited extent) - Ensuring the selection of bench mark farmers includes female farmers(Eg

in Wheat initiative)

As a result the touch point at ground level was not that strong and not able to influence the implementation as expected

Learning: there should be a mechanism to influence the implementation at ground level and tracking mechanism for timely action.

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Future Direction of addressing gender in value chain will employ two approaches

Objective: Ensure the increment of Women’s productivity & target areas by 20% by enhancing competitiveness of the VC through addressing gender inequality and tap in to the potential of female farmers

Approach: Mainstreaming and standalone approach employed.

Mainstreaming: the first includes ensuring proactive targeting female farmers across the VC component like their male counter parts.

Standalone: which includes special targeting of female farmers for information dissemination, service provision through engaging WDG and networks

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Key actions to ensure the mainstreaming of gender in value chain programs

Input Availability

• Seed production and availability considers women farmers preferences • Women farmers targeted to actively participate and benefit from community based seed

multiplication• Women farmers are informed about QPM and small packaging of seed(Teff) through targeting

women development groups and networks

Input distribution

• Sensitizing unions and primary coops to target female farmers • Target women-only and gender balanced primary cooperatives for input distribution and

capacity building to emphasize access to inputs for women• Female farmers, women development groups and networks targeted for information

dissemination to participate in direct marketing, blended fertilizer, chemical and pesticide application

Input financing

• Targeting women development groups and networks for information dissemination • Assess the friendliness of the system to women and further inform the credit model

• Documenting best practices of women who have successfully utilized credits and repay their loan

Agronomy

• IEC materials will have section on gender which clearly shows the benefit of addressing women farmers and how to reach women farmers

• Training to target female DAs and SMS and a session on gender and how to address gender issues in the DAs and SMS provision of support to female farmers

• Female headed households included in the farmer based demonstration • Female farmers play a role in field days and are involved as information providers(educators);

support the establishment of targeted female listeners groups for the Farm Radio

Mechanization

• Targeted to reach women farmers through women groups and networks• The row planter production needs to consider accessibility to women farmers in terms labor

demand, technicality, price( credit opportunity)• Support women groups to provide mechanical technology(row planter, harvester, thresher)

renting service to women farmers

Post harvest and marketing • Ensure women, men and youth farmers are informed about the service; Target women through targeting women development groups and networks • Information sharing to women farmers about market information particularly selling opportunities

• Women identified and involved in commission based private workers- traders (aggregating production to coops on commission basis)

MLE • Monitor, document practices for further learning and sharing.


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Key Activities and next steps

1. Selecting pilot woredas for each VC: Conduct rapid appraisal and understand gender issues across the VC component; Design special support mechanism; sensitization workshop and training to DAs, SMS, WA,WCYA, Women development groups and networks: Female farmer radio listeners groups

2. Coordination among stakeholders: MOA-WAD, RBOA Gender units, FCA gender units , Was, WCYA, Gender units in financial institutions and follow-up

3. Documentation of updates and learning for further planning and scale-up

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Stakeholder Coordination

MOA/RBOA gender unit: playing a leadership role in identifying targeting ( woredas, women’s groups and women farmers, coordinating and follow-up the activity implementation, coordination among stakeholders

FCA/RCPA gender unit: sensitizing unions and coops to target and involve women input distribution and out-put marketing: - Manual development, provision of training and follow-up

Micro-finance institutions gender units: enhance the friendliness and accessibility of input credit through disseminating information to women farmers, assess and enhance friendliness of the credit services

Women’s Association and Women, children and Youth Affair: Facilitate and mobilize women to participate in information sharing efforts, services access, assessment and documentation of practices.

ATA: supporting MOA/RBOA in coordination, providing technical support in bringing different experiences, development of manuals and facilitation of trainings and workshops, follow-up and coordination efforts and financing the initiative.

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2014 Tef Initiative identified 6 intervention areas with 2 target levels

Source: Tef team discussions, July – Aug 2013

Input distribution(seed, Fertilizers and chemicals)

1. Strengthen the planning and logistics for the traditional distribution system for seeds and fertilizer

2. Capacity building for primary coop amd FCU

3. ICT tracking of seed and fertilizer distribution

4. Expand promotion of blended fertilizer

Input finance and insurance 1. Ensure sufficient liquidity is available for

input financing for all target woredas (30% of farmers)

2. Avail access to input financing to all target woredas using new and refined credit model

3. Develop risk insurance 4. Implementation of voucher credit

system by MFIs and Coops`

- All initiative woredas- High producing 46

woredas

Input access and availability (seeds, fertilizer and chemicals )

1. Improve and monitor the quality and quantity of appropriate varieties produced by formal sector for target woredas

2. Ensure AISE orders the right amount and type with focus on UREA and blended on time

3. Expand community based seed multiplication in target woredas

4. Soil testing to develop targeted fertilizer recommendation

5. Expand 5kg packaging of tef seed by formal sector

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2Mechanization

1. Disseminate knowledge about and promote use of thresher in 2013/14

2. Develop new row planter, refine the existing planters

3. Expand availability of row planters, harvester and threshers

4. Conduct training on how to manage tools

Agronomy 1. Develop and distributed manuals, pamphlets,

to SMS, DAs, and farmers, and expand FRI2. Conduct TOT for regional, zonal and woreda

SMS at right time3. Expand farmer based demonstration sites4. Develop crop mix strategy5. Expand conservation agriculture and rain

gauges and soil moisture tester use 6. Scale up tef-chickpea double cropping (TBD)

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5Post harvest and marketing

1. Expand warehouse network

2. Identify and create links to domestic commercial consumers

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Tef Initiative

2014

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woredas

Gender components for 2014 Tef Initiative


Input distribution(Seed, fertilizers and chemicals)

1. Strengthen the planning and logistics for the traditional distribution system for seeds and fertilizer

2. Capacity building for primary coop and FCU3. ICT tracking of seed and fertilizer distribution4. Expand promotion of blended fertilizer

Input finance and insurance 1. Ensure sufficient liquidity is available for input financing for all

target woredas (30% of farmers)2. Avail access to input financing to all target woredas using new

and refined credit model3. Develop risk insurance 4. Implementation of voucher credit system by MFIs and Coops`

Input access and availability (seeds, fertilizer and chemicals )

1. Improve and monitor the quality and quantity of appropriate varieties produced by formal sector for target woredas

2. Ensure AISE orders the right amount and type with focus on UREA and blended on time

3. Expand community based seed multiplication in target woredas 4. Soil testing to develop targeted fertilizer recommendation 5. Expand 5kg packaging of tef seed by formal sector

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Specific activities • Engage women and youth in

community based seed multiplication

• [smaller packaging may promote adoption of improved seed by low income households; especially female-headed households]

Targeting • ## women, men and

youth participating and benefiting from community based seed multiplication

• ## women, men and youth farmers that purchase 5kg package

• Provide gender training for union and cooperative leadership

• Engage women-only coops• Use ICT tracking with sex- and age-

disaggregated data• Conduct demonstration of blended

fertilizer with female-headed households

• ## women-only coop and coops with >30% women membership

• ## women, men and youth farmers that purchase inputs

• ## FHH conducting blended fertilizer demonstration

• Ensure the commitment of MFIs to promote input financing options (including vouchers) to achieve more than 50% women clients of all types (female households heads, married women and youth); leverage existing rural women’s networks

• ## women, men and youth clients based on loan size, type (i.e. voucher) and use

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woredas

Gender components for 2014 Tef Initiative


Specific activities • Provide women-only trainings for

how to manage tools

Targeting • ## women using row

planter, harvesters and threshers

Agronomy 1. Develop and distributed manuals, pamphlets, to SMS, DAs, and

farmers, and expand FRI2. Conduct TOT for regional, zonal and woreda SMS at right time3. Expand farmer based demonstration sites4. Develop crop mix strategy5. Expand conservation agriculture and rain gauges and soil

moisture tester use 6. Scale up tef-chickpea double cropping (TBD)

Post harvest and marketing1. Expand warehouse network 2. Identify and create links to domestic commercial consumers

Mechanization1. Disseminate knowledge about and promote use of thresher in

2013/142. Develop new row planter, refine the existing planters 3. Expand availability of row planters, harvester and threshers 4. Conduct training on how to manage tools

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6 • Ensure warehouse targets women• Promote purchasing from women

farmers and cooperatives with >30% women membership

• ## women using warehouses

• ## purchased from women or coops with >30% women membership

• Provide gender training as part of regional agronomy TOT

• Develop women-friendly communication materials

• DAs conduct women-only trainings at convenient times and locations

• Increase the number of female-headed household demonstrations

• Invite women and youth to farmer field days and farmer exposure visits

• Organize women-only and mixed listening groups for Farm Radio [pending impact results]

• Train women on conservation ag.

• ## extension members trained

• ## materials reviewed

• ## women trained at women-only sessions

• ## FHH demonstrations

• ## women and youth attending field days

• ## women in Farm Radio listening groups

• ## of women practicing conservation ag.

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Informing programs with evidence

Gender analysis

Gender audit of RBOA

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Innovations to help our country grow

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Conclusion

Clear direction + alignment + commitment = Achieving gender equality objectives beyond the GTP targeting

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Gender issues across the components of the value chain

Input Supply

Input Distribution

& Access

On-farm Production

Access to Post-harvest Technology

Market Linkages

Demand Sinks

Development

Sensitizing unions and primary coops to target female farmers : Target women-only and gender balanced primary cooperatives for input distribution and capacity building to emphasize access to inputs for womenfemale farmers, women development groups and networks targeted for information dissemination to participate in direct marketing, blended fertilizer, chemical and pesticide application

▪ Extension services target women farmers to ensure that they gain knowledge and implement appropriate agronomic practices

▪ Increase participation of women farmers by identifying appropriate time and place for training

▪ Both women and men have access to knowledge and technologies for processing and storage which reduces losses

▪ Women farmers capacity to use post harvest technologies, value addition and storage

▪ Identify opportunities for value addition and facilitate support

▪ Access market for better return through assessing and addressing gender related constraints

▪ Enabling women to participate in farmer institutions, have access to market information and facilitate linkage

▪ Investigation of access to input and output markets by both women and men


Seed production and availability considers women farmers preferences

Women farmers targeted to actively participate and benefit from community based seed multiplication

Women farmers are informed about QPM and small packaging of seed(Teff) through targeting women development groups and networks

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Priorities for 2013 significantly shaped by the result of the capacity needs assessmentKey deliverable Q1 milestone Q2 milestone Q3 milestone Q4 milestone

1 Gender mainstreamed in ATA programs

ATA Value chain, systems and special initiatives identified specific gender issues

Implementation framework developed and operationalized

Implementation and follow-up of identified gender issues

Follow-up implementation and document learning

2 Enhanced institutional mainstreaming through organizational development

Gender mainstreaming guideline drafted and staff awareness enhanced

Gender mainstreaming guideline finalized and implementation started; staff awareness enhanced

Gender mainstreaming guideline implemented; staff awareness enhanced

The gender mainstreaming guideline fully implemented by all team; staff awareness enhanced

3 Women's Economic Leadership (WEL) project implementation

Pilot projects launched in Tigray and Oromia

Women’s enterprises established with business plans in Tigray and Oromia

Pilot projects launched in Amhara and SNNP

Women’s enterprises operationalized in Tigray and Oromia

Women’s enterprises established with business plans in Amhara and SNNP

Successful pilot projects in Tigray and Oromia

4 Built the capacity of MOA-WAD and gender units in RBOA

TOR developed for Gender analysis and gender audit

Commission the gender analysis and audit task and data collection finalized

Gender analysis and gender audit report Finalized

Analysis report and audit finding shared and implementation started

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