Saving for Change & Agriculture Leveraging the power of women

Soumaila Sogoba April 2015

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Today’s discussion

Saving for Change (SFC) Methodology

Saving for change and resilience

SFC and agriculture

Transformative changes

Challenges

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Saving for Change Methodology

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SFC-Building Resilience

Increase in savings (31%) more than

control villages

More women take loans (12%) more

than control villages

Increase in food security

Increased investment in livestock

Increased malaria knowledge

Saving for Change + Agri in Mali

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SFC women requested to find a solution to the soil fertility decline

Implementation:

Nursery School land

Saving for Change + Agroforestry Mali

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Sharing responsibilities between men and womenMen provide the land

and prepare it for

planting.

Women take care of

the trees and

grow crops.

Saving for Change + Agroforestry Mali

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Initiative of ICRAF in 5 countries:WAF: Mali, Burkina-Faso, NigerEAF: Kenya, Ethiopia

Dutch government funding5 years project

Oxfam

Pictorial manual for FMNR training

Value chains & saving for change in all Program areas,

DRYDEV Project

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Social Changes: Women have access to land and technical support in agriculture,Gender Balance : Men accept to be involved in an activity led by women.

Environmental Change:Enough shade in the small gardens

own by women.

Economic change:Selling seeds and seedlings

becomes an income generating for women.

Transformative Changes

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How to make sure that women will lead when expanding to household land.

Conflicting interest for men and women in implementing FMNR in the household land, where the men are the most involved in land preparation (plowing).

Termite and animal attack. How to diversify trees in very desert areas in Mali

Challenges

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Thank you!