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The IAO/Gender research project

IAO/Gender Project: Lessons learnt and recommendations on gender and rural development in sub-Saharan Africa. The IAO/Gender research project. Main objective :

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The IAO/Gender research project

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  1. IAO/Gender Project: Lessons learnt and recommendations on gender and rural development in sub-Saharan Africa

  2. The IAO/Gender research project Mainobjective: “to create the conditionsnecessarytoincrease and improve the participationof women and the enhancementoftheirrolein food security, environmentalsustainability and ruraldevelopmentprogrammesimplementedby the ItalianDevelopmentCooperation”

  3. Methodology • Literature (scientific and technical) review on priorityissues: land, naturalresources, farming production and the market, roleofassociativism, territoriality, rural and agriculturaldevelopmentpolicies and trends, food security – from a gender perspective • Analysisof the methodology, objectives and outcomesofdevelopmentprojectsrelevantfor the purposesof the research (namely, Italia-CILSS and PSSR) • Fieldresearch in the prioritycountriesfor the Italian Dev. Coop: BurkinaFaso, Mozambique and Mali

  4. Dissemination outputs • Results devolution in Mozambique (CGC, GFP, and to the people interviewed in Mancia and Sofala) and Senegal • International conference at the MinistryofForeignAffairs (October 2013) • A volume in Italian: “Women, land and markets: rethinkingruraldevelopment in sub-Saharan Africa” • Research report in Italian, English, French and Portuguese

  5. Research themes LAND AND WORK: • Inclusive business models in Mozambique • The paradoxesofestablishingland security in BF THE MARKET: • Constraints in accessingmarkets in Mozambique • Women and markets in Senegal VOICE AND AGENCY: • Farmers’ associationsas a toolforempowerment in Moz • The Groupsfor the Promotion of Women in Senegal TOOLS: • Participatorycritical GIS for women’s empowerment • Multi-dimensionalindicatorsfor the IAO/Gender research • Land and the territorializationapproach FOOD SECURITY as CROSS-CUTTING ISSUE

  6. Challengingdevelopmentrethoric? • Localknowledge can restrict women topredefinedroles • Supportingsmall family farmingimplies a hugeamountofunpaid work carried out by women • New formsofinvestments in ruralareas are yetanotherdiversificationstrategybased on women’s unpaidlabour & theirendlesssupllyoftime • Farmers’ associationsmust prove thattheypractice genuine democraticparticipation and representation

  7. Lessonslearned and possiblepractices • Women generate data and knowledge re the places they live in and must participate in the production of local and national data collection systems • Indicators of women’s empowerment must accompany all the stages of rural and agricultural dev. programmes – including those not specifically aimed at women • Programmes supporting family farming must pay attention at: division of responsibilities and roles; composition and management of family budget; workload and skills; differences between WHH and MHH

  8. Lessonslearned and possiblepractices (cont.d) 4. Women have rights: information and legal support have to be provided and the creation of structures for the management of disputes in which women’s interests are properly defended should be supported 5. Collective rights of use of and access to land must not be relegated to the “traditional” domain but promoted as relevant forms of production. 6. Land and natural resources degradation creates a situation of vulnerability for women (rather than women being vulnerable per se).

  9. Lessonslearned and possiblepractices (cont.d) 7. The specific obstacles that women face in accessing and controlling value chains can be overcome through the promotion of shorter, locally-based value chains avoiding women’s ghettoization in marginal and unsustainable pockets of productions (jams, soy flour cakes, honey…production supporting “traditional local knowledge” but with no sustainable markets 8. Inclusive business models can result in negative consequences for women and must be accompanied by an analysis of the context in order to identify the economic and gender inequalities and internal power relations

  10. Lessonslearned and possiblepractices (cont.d) 9. Malnutrition is not always the result of poverty but can be the result of the exclusively commercial destination of the production in family businesses where the man manages the earning 10. Specific places and spaces where women voice can be heard must be created at the local level.

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