gender_writeshop

=Livestock and Fish gender integration writeshop= =Naivasha Country Club, Kenya= =4-9 April 2016=

Part of the L&F Gender Initiative

Objectives
**Produce a book:** to share L&F experiences on gender integration within L&F and beyond

**Audience:** agricultural research institutes (CGIAR, NARIs, FARA, CORAF); CRP management teams; technical, systems and value chain scientists; Gender Network of CG

The writeshop aims to document findings and insights on gender dimensions of technical and institutional interventions and approaches of L&F. It seeks to share the learning vis a vis gender integrated R4D more broadly than the individual researchers involved – both within the CRP and beyond. The on-site professional editor (Paul Mundy) will ensure readability and a common tone and support in the formulation of the research project examples. KIT Advisors will frame and guide the content based on the ongoing coaching experience and insights.

Process
The writing workshop – ‘writeshop’ – will document learning on gender integration in the CRP Livestock and Fish. It will capture both process and content learning from integrating gender in technical and systems research and tools. It will provide insights as to the gender integrated research agenda and how gender integration can be fostered within agricultural research institutes. Preliminary findings from gender integrated research projects will also be shared and discussed.

A writeshop has three main advantages. Firstly, it supports scientists in digesting and making sense of their gender-integrated research results. Secondly, it enables reflection, in this case, across the different gender-integrated initiatives to stimulate cross-learning as to how to effectively integrate gender within a CG research program like Livestock and Fish. Thirdly, the writeshop will support gender scientists and the Gender Initiative in articulating and documenting lessons from the gender integration experience allowing continued improvement to the input and direction provided to the technical and systems colleagues on gender analysis.

In terms of design and facilitation of that writeshop process. These key steps are foreseen: 1) **Documentation of analysis, findings and conclusions of research projects **. The research proposals or options funded through the ILRI fellowship and/or those that have received coaching have captured the results of their work in short reports submitted January 25 2016. Based on these reports and ongoing analysis, the research projects will be thematically clustered. The specific research question of the projects will be linked to the broader CRP L&F gender integration research agenda. This will enable higher level analysis and synthesis during the writeshop.

2) **Documentation of learning on integrating gender **. (This can include identifying and making sense of challenges and successes that researchers faced along the way.) Lessons on gender integration will also be clustered, for instance around types of research (technical, social), challenges around prevailing assumptions, or accommodative or transformative orientation of the research project. Analysis and lessons related to interdisciplinarity will also be included.

3) **Reflection to feed ongoing /future research as well as strategic planning processes. **The writeshop will include work sessions to allow the gender integrated research around one theme or flagship to be presented and discussed. Results, lessons and implications will be discussed face-to-face, and the scientists can together pull out higher level lessons and insights related to gender integration in the CRP and in technical livestock and fish research more broadly. These will be written up as recommendations or insights to support ongoing or planned research and to feed into strategic planning processes for phase 2 of the CRPs (starting 2017).

Outputs
@https://livestockfish.cgiar.org/2016/04/04/gender-writeshop/

@https://livestockfish.cgiar.org/2016/04/07/gender-health/

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Participants

 * || **Name** || **Institute/affiliation** || Role/project ||
 * 1 || Peter Ballantyne || ILRI- L&F Communications || Blogs, other communications ||
 * 2 || Paul Mundy || KIT – subcontracted || English editor, support in writing research project examples, lay-out ||
 * 3 || Nasrin Sultana || KIT – Gender Initiative || Facilitation, writing, writing support; Engendering FEAST; //Gender analysis of the fish feed value chain leading to action research to overcome gender based constraints to women’s participation;// //Design and piloting of gender integrated/gender transformative best-bets in Bangladesh fish value chain Follow-up to the Gender integrated fish VCA;// ||
 * 4 || Anouka van Eerdewijk || KIT – Gender Initiative || Facilitation, writing, writing support ||
 * 5 || Rhiannon Pyburn || KIT – Gender Initiative || Facilitation, writing, writing support ||
 * 6 || Genevieve Audet-Belanger || KIT – film clips || Making and editing short interview films ||
 * 7 || Alessandra Galie || ILRI –Gender Initiative NBO || Mainstreaming gender in feed and fodder interventions in “Moremilkit” sites in Tanzania; Gender in designing and implementing dairy (**TZ**) and pig (UG) hubs ||
 * 8 || Annet Mulema || ILRI – Gender Initiative ET || Engendering FEAST; //Differential gender impacts of animal diseases in small ruminant production in Ethiopia;// ||
 * 9 || Isabelle Baltenweck || ILRI-VC, SASI, GI || //All projects input; Mainstreaming gender in the assessment of dairy producer organisations sustainability// ||
 * 10 || Wole Kinati || KIT – Gender Initiative ET || Engendering FEAST; ||
 * 11 || Froukje Kruijssen || WF - Gender Initiative NL/BGD || Design and piloting of gender integrated/gender transformative best-bets in Bangladesh fish value chain Follow-up to the Gender integrated fish VCA; Gender analysis of the fish feed value chain leading to action research to overcome gender based constraints to women’s participation ||
 * 12 || Fayzur Rahman || WF - Gender Initiative BGD || Gender analysis of the fish feed value chain leading to action research to overcome gender based constraints to women’s participation ||
 * 13 || Alejandra Mora || CIAT–Gender Initiative NIC || ADA-Genetics Nicaragua a joint project between ILRI, CIAT, UNA (Agrarian University of Nicaragua­); social media masculinity vignettes, other TBD ||
 * 15 || Mark van Wijk || ILRI-SASI || Evaluating best-bet intervention in contrasting L&F value chains in sub Saharan Africa in a gender differentiated manner: from household to intra household level patterns ||
 * 16 || Catherine Pfeifer || ILRI-SASI || //Mapping gender dimensions: towards gender sensitive geographical targeting and scaling out// ||
 * 18 || Emily Ouma || ILRI-UG-VC || //Gender in designing and implementing dairy (TZ) and pig (**UG**) hubs// ||
 * 19 || Mamun Rashid || WF-BGD-VC-FF || Gender analysis of the fish feed value chain leading to action research to overcome gender based constraints to women’s participation ||
 * X || Froukje Kruijssen || WF-NL-BGD-VC || //Design and piloting of gender integrated/gender transformative best-bets in Bangladesh fish value chain Follow-up to the Gender integrated fish VCA// ||
 * X || Isabelle Baltenweck || Consultant – gender - quantitative || //Mainstreaming gender in the assessment of dairy producer organisations sustainability; multiple projects// ||
 * 20 || Barbara Weiland || ILRI-ET-AH-FF || Differential gender impacts of animal diseases in small ruminant production in Ethiopia ||
 * 21 || Michel Dione || ILRI-UG-AH || //Gender dimensions of pig management in the smallholder pig production systems in Uganda: case of control of African Swine Fever// ||
 * 22 || Ben Lukuyu || ET-TZ-FF || Engendering FEAST ||
 * X || Alessandra Galie || ILRI – GI- VC - TZ || //Mainstreaming gender in feed and fodder interventions in “Moremilkit” sites in Tanzania - Ololilie ||
 * X || Alejandra Mora || CIAT–GI- NIC || ADA-Genetics Nicaragua a joint project between ILRI, CIAT, UNA (Agrarian University of Nicaragua­); or under VC (social media masculinity vignettes) ||
 * 24 || Karen Marshall || ILRI- NBO- GE || Dairy genetics project – Senegal – data interpretation ||
 * X || Alessandra Galie || ILRI – GI- VC - TZ || //Mainstreaming gender in feed and fodder interventions in “Moremilkit” sites in Tanzania - Ololilie ||
 * X || Alejandra Mora || CIAT–GI- NIC || ADA-Genetics Nicaragua a joint project between ILRI, CIAT, UNA (Agrarian University of Nicaragua­); or under VC (social media masculinity vignettes) ||
 * 24 || Karen Marshall || ILRI- NBO- GE || Dairy genetics project – Senegal – data interpretation ||