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Empowering Women in Equitable Agricultural Systems at Scale

Join the 2015 conference in Lilongwe, Malawi, focusing on empowering women in equitable agricultural systems at scale to combat famine. Learn about CARE's efforts in promoting innovative solutions for sustainable development, empowering women & girls, and influencing social change.

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Empowering Women in Equitable Agricultural Systems at Scale

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  1. Empowering Women in Equitable Agricultural Systems at Scale Beating Famine Conference 14th – 17th April, 2015, Lilongwe - Malawi Salome Mhango

  2. ABOUT CARE • Humanitarian action - preparedness and early action, emergency response and recovery, future resilience and equitable development • Promoting innovative solutions for sustainable development - through essential services, building capacities, reducing risk, and empowering the most vulnerable, particularly women & girls. • Multiplying impact - use evidence and learning from humanitarian action and development programs to influence social change. • CARE works in partnership with a wide range of actors from civil society, government and the private sector.

  3. Women and Girls at the CentreImpact population is rural women small holder farmers and adolescent girls; - but works through Men and boys and a number of stakeholders

  4. CARE’s Women Empowerment Framework A woman’s own aspirations and capabilities -Skills, capacities, information -Self-confidence -Decision making confidence -Knowledge of laws and rights The environment that surrounds and conditions her choices -Customs, traditions, norms -Laws, policies -Rules for accessing services, resources-extn, natural resources The power relations through which she negotiates her path -Male partners -Market Actors -Community leaders, gate keepers -Collective action, group solidarity -Change agents

  5. Pathways Approach to Gender Integration • Empowering Interventions: • Women’s empowerment: agency, relations and structures –productivity & efficacy • Engaging men and boys • Collectives and groups: -social empowerment • Towards Gender Transformative Strategies: Moving the bar in 5 years • CARE and partners: Building the organizational systems and culture that ensure we are partners of choice for poor and marginalized women

  6. The Gender Continuum

  7. Gender Continuum Explained • Exploitative: Using existing gender roles for efficient project gains (which reinforce gender norms or inequalities) e.g. market committees, mechanized weeding-India • Accommodating:Working within existing divisions. Compensates for gender differences but doesn’t try to challenge underlying norms. Eg selecting women friendly value chains • Transformative: Recognizing and changing fundamental inequalities. - Challenge the false dichotomy of the breadwinnervscaregiver - How?? FFBS Gender component

  8. Farmer field and Business Schools - A Pathways programming approach • A learning by doing approach through which farmers meet regularly during a cropping cycle to experiment and learn about new production and marketing options • Builds on FFS • FFBS is unique in that it includes community approaches to visioning and planning, sustainable agriculture, market engagement, nutrition, gender and performance monitoring

  9. Farmer Field and Business School approach’ - an innovative agriculture extension and delivery approach • Improved knowledge, skills and relationships • Improved access to productive resources, assets and Markets • Improvement in yields and income • Increased contribution to and influence over household income and decision making • More enabling attitudes behaviours, social norms , policy and institution

  10. FFBS Demonstration Plot FFBS Demonstration Plot Male change agents Postharvest technique: Mandera Cork Gender and Nutrition role play

  11. THANK YOU…….

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