gender+planning+meeting+notes

Notes of the Gender component planning meeting held on 29-30 November in Nairobi and subsequent workshop report

Read the event blog post: Livestock and Fish gender component refines and agrees approaches to integrate gender in the program

Workshop report (draft):

Meeting notes

Presentation by KColverson: Gender in the livestock and fish CGIAR Research Program Overview of livestock and fish Background of the livestock and fish gender strategy: approved in June 2011 when the Program's proposal was approved Important is gender in the value chain
 * Introduction by Kathy Colverson**


 * ** Participants expectation ** || ** How do we best achieve them ** ||
 * A better understanding of capacity development plans/desires || Actively participating in the workshop agenda ||
 * A better understanding of gender integration in CRP 3.7 and how people with different expertise (including those from biosciences) can contribute to this || Build a learning mindset to feed evolution ||
 * A better understanding of how the gender strategy will be implemented/incorporated into VCs || By identifying the missing links, in value chain governance and how the gender team can work towards reducing the gaps ||
 * A better understanding of timelines and locations where work/pilots will roll out in 2013 || Chip at issues piecemeal ||
 * A clear gender strategy that’s complete || Clear communication of the gender strategy ||
 * Agree on ways to learn our way forward, not be locked into immovable positions because they log-framed. || Clear vision translated into concrete actions (partners, budgets, activities) +who will do what and after this workshop ||
 * Agreed gender strategy that captures our vision and that we are all comfortable with. || Consultations and discussions with the gender team. ||
 * Agreement on approaches to gender integration in CRP 3.7 || Contribute and discuss openly ||
 * Being together on our understanding of gender as driving-patterns that effect reaching vision. (more than morals) || Definition +articulation of how and when capacity development activities will be rolled out. ||
 * Better understanding of how to integrate gender in livestock value chain/gender mainstream/gender analysis || Discuss and come to agreements and identified actions ||
 * Clarity on roles +responsibilities +how the center partners work together. || Discussion on how the components can better work together ||
 * Clear understanding on the type of analyses needed on gender issues on value chains, specific metrics missing in the VC toolkits +needed || Draft some headline principles, ideas that steer our expectations ||
 * Common understanding of scope and spirit of gender work in 3.7 || Feedback from researchers implementing tools on the ground. ||
 * Develop a smart strategy on how to consider gender in livestock and fish production in small scale farms || Have/make time within the 2 day to exchange experiences. ||
 * Find ways to cooperate with other CRPs (CRP2 as well as other) || Learn and keep trying ||
 * Improved understanding of how gender and VC components overlap and are different || Open and focuses dialogue ||
 * Learning from each other about challenges +possibilities on gender and VCs || Smaller groups to propose specific ideas/text to be reviewed by other +consensus achieved. ||
 * To learn more about the CRP 3.7 gender strategy || Structure flexibility ||
 * Understanding of whether gender integrates or sender mainstreaming will be used in different value chains ||  ||


 * Gender transformative approaches by Paula Kantor**

Are we getting gender integration right? Issues to do with transformative verses adaptive research – HUGE RESEARCH QUESTIONS? Can we demonstrative that it’s an adaptive research moving to transformative? What are the advantages of transformative approach? Testing different ways of the how to get the biggest outcome Updating the documents and syncronise the team’s thinking – the last document (gender strategy in the proposal) is less transformative that it is now The **scalabilty** of this research was noted to be thin but it can be addressed through engaging the community and other partners, key opinion leaders, using behavior change intervention. Need to keep the distinction on doing good research and thinking through on how scalable it will be. The CG has capacity to engage in gender transformative research through partnership approach

1) Address the right issues. Diagnosis, scope of work – small holder or medium entrepreneurs 2) Keep challenging eg, small holders or medium enterprises 3) Building effective delivery teams across the complexity – pull people together, acting, coordinates establish frameworks 4) Selling; animal source food, CRP 3.7 valid and non threatening within CGIAR, accelerate research and development 5) Building partnerships; - have to work with developing partners because they are our outcome pathway, start from inception 6) Governance and Leadership – who is in-charge of what, how are conflicts involved, how program sits within ILRI, World fish, CIAT & ICARDA – Role of component leaders
 * Critical success factors for the CRP 3.7;**


 * Log frame (Kathy to share the revised version)**

AG value chains and employment || Interventions identified || Malcolm and Paula (WoldFish) || Baseline survey || Amos Omore (ILRI) || Analysis ongoing Early reporting || Liz (ILRI) || Gender Agriculture and assets project || Writing scientific papers || Nancy & Liz Waithanji (ILRI)
 * Livestock and Fish aligned projects**
 * **Partner** || **Project** || **Progress to date** || **Contact** ||
 * WorldFish and CARE Egypt || IE IDEAS
 * ILRI and University of Albert || GCP Tanzania || Gender analysis
 * ILRI, Ford foundation, KARI, EADD, JUHUDI || Evaluating impacts of aquaculture and livestock micro-credit on VCs using WEAI || Data collected
 * GAAP || Intra household analysis

Led by IFPRI ||
 * Senegal Dairy Genetics ||  || About to initiate field data collection, putting a layer of gender in getting gender disaggregated analysis || Karen (ILRI) ||
 * PROGEBE || Not sure how gender is incorporated || In final year ||  ||
 * GEF-Asia ||  ||   ||   ||
 * IFAD in Uganda ||  ||   || Danilo Pezo (ILRI) ||
 * Irish Aid || MILKIT ||  || Amos Omore (ILRI) ||
 * USAID Bangladesh || WorldFish ||  || Froukje (IFPRI) ||

Revised logframe/strategy - 15 Jan 2013 Kathy C Meeting report – 5th/6th Dec by Sue In depth tools have gender incorporated developed in 2013 by Froukje, Paula, Epi, Kate M&E face to face to be arranged meeting / Gender value chain impact pathways by Paula, Michael, Froukje in close communication with Patti K (CCAFS)
 * Action Plan**

Ideas for proposal development: Iddo proposal writing - Adras Scaling up of Ford WEAI project – Liz Waithanji Feed the future proposal (USAID) – Kathy C Outcome 1 scope proposal – Iddo Outcome 2 scope proposal – Froukje Outcome 3 scope proposal – Paula Outcome 4 scope proposal – Liz Partnerships survey - Stuart W


 * Outcome Documents**