un fao sofa 2010 gender and value chains coles mitchell 15 sept 09
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Presentation to UN FAO, Rome on incorporating gender equity concernes into agricultural value chain analysis and development.TRANSCRIPT
- 1. Gender and value chains
Presentation of paper prepared for UN FAO SOFA 2010
Christopher Coles and Jonathan Mitchell - 2. Introduction
Brief introduction to VC analysis and development and the study
What we know about gender and value chains: desk and action research
How we intervene: value chain development
The implications for policy and practice
Summary - 3. Value chain analysis the diagnosis
Is holistic
chain wide approach to ID of action points from design & input supply to consumption
deals with everyone men and women
Looks for win-win interventions need to be economically viable to be sustainable - 4. Value chain development the solution
Applies upgrading strategies to actors
Process and product: improving efficiency and quality
Functional: who does what
Horizontal coordination: within functional nodes
Vertical coordination: between nodes
Chain: moving to a new chain using existing skills
Enabling environment
Policy, law, institutions, support organisations
Projects tend to be short-term, narrowly focussed and prioritise quick wins - 5. What determines how and where men and women participate in
VCs?
Access to factors of production
- Which functions? Women in lower margin activities/VCs, including secondary roles
- 6. Role of risk
- 7. Male appropriation
- 8. Women involved throughout chains, often beyond production (e.g. fisheries)
- 9. Which VCs?
- 10. Taboos & traditional norms culture
- 11. perceived value e.g. local vs. export
- 12. Contextual differences (within a VC)