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MECIS ECONOMIC JUSTICE COMMUNITY OF

PRACTICE LEARNING WORKSHOP

WELCOME

MARCH 17-20, 2014

PLEASE SIT AT TABLES AS SHOWN

U. Alik – ESDC: _________– Fatima Irshaid – Mohamad S - Peter L –– Saida

V. Agapi – Chogi – Matteo – Mustafa Ismael – Nickie – PARC: _________ - Shekhar

W. Ahmed Sourani - Benoit – Dilorom – PalTrade: _________ - Rita – Roxanne

X. Alaa – BWF: Dua - Levan – Maxime – Safarmo – Thomas

Y. FTDC: _________ - Ibrahim Shaat – Jonathan – Mahinakhon – Nino – QUODEV: __________

Z. ARIJ: __________ - Beesyna – Ghazi – Ramila – Wael - Wassem

WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES

1. To promote peer to peer learning across the region

2. To develop a strong Economic Justice Community of Practice and support structure in the region

3. To enhance the ability of Oxfam and partner organisations to gain greater impact through a systems approach

AGENDA

MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY

SHARING EXPERIENCE WITHIN THEMES

FIELD VISITS INTEGRATION & NEXT STEPS

Introduction 2 themes Field visits Integration

2 themes 2 themes Field visits Next steps

TUESDAY AGENDA: MORNING

9.00 Review Monday

9.20 Influence• Introduction• Georgia case study and clarifications• Gaza Strip case study and clarifications• Groups: systems questions• Plenary

10.40 Coffee/Tea

10.55 Gender

12.00 Minister(s): official speaker(s)

12.30 Lunch

TUESDAY AGENDA: AFTERNOON

13.30Enterprise Development

Case studies: West Bank and Azerbaijan

14.50 Coffee/Tea

15.05 Resilience Building

Case studies: Armenia (2) and Oxfam Italy

16.45 Market Place: help sought and offered

16.50 Review day

16.55 Plans for field visits

17.00 Close

19.00 Dinner

TUESDAY GROUP WORK

Thinking of the case studies you have just heard, please agree a key question to ask of the presenters of any one or all case studies.

Please seek a deep question guided by the 4 systems questions ABCD. Your question does not have to be ABCD.

Please also agree a back-up question – in case another group asks your main question first!

GROUPS FOR TUESDAY

BISCUITS: Alaa – Alik – Beesyna – BWF: Dua – Ibrahim Shaat – Roxanne – Safarmo – Saida – Wael

COFFEE: ARIJ: __________ – Benoit – Chogi – Jonathan – Levan – Mohamad S -–Mustafa Ismael – Nickie – Ramila – Wassem

SIDEROOM: Ahmed Sourani – Dilorom – Fatima Irshaid – FTDC: _________ – Ghazi – Matteo – PalTrade: _________ – Peter L – Rita – Thomas

LIFTS: Agapi – ESDC: _________ – Mahinakhon –Maxime – Nino – PARC: _________ – QUODEV: __________ –Shekhar

EXPECTATIONS: GENERAL

• To learn what others have done• To learn from colleagues about what worked

and what did not work, especially in oPt• To exchange ideas, learning from each other• To reflect on our own initiatives from

different perspectives• To understand systems thinking and

leveraging – and how they affect theories of change

EXPECTATIONS: SPECIFIC TOPICS

• Challenges faced by others launching Gendered Enterprise & Markets (GEM) projects

• Innovative agricultural service delivery models

• Programme implementation by partners• Monitoring & finance management, donor

requirements• Motivation for farmers’ cooperation• Implementing gender mainstreaming

DESIGN OF WORKSHOP

Balance between sharing on specific details…

DESIGN OF WORKSHOP

… and digging into depth through systems thinking

DESIGN OF WORKSHOP

Specific details AND conceptual thinkingbreadth AND depth

– especially in field visits

SYSTEMS THINKING:WHAT IS A SYSTEM?

• Multiple actors and relationships between them

• Both formal and informal structures and behaviours

• Unpredictable chains of events• System adapts itself and changes

It is real life!

Transport

Business Development - minimal services due to vertical integration

MARKETSERVICES

(DIS)ENABLINGENVIRONMENT

MARKETCHAIN

Smallholders (80%) growing Olive Oil

(100,000 HHs)

Consumer:• Internatio

nal

Farm intensification – limited complimentary livelihoods:Herbs, Honey, Almond, Cous Cous

Informal Gulf Gift market

(30%)

Bottlers

(9)

Domestic retailers (20%)

Commercial presses

(280- presses)

US, Far east and European Retailers and Supermarkets

(10%?)Differentiated Markets by quality and certification- virgin/extra virgin

- - FT/Organic/non FT- - Solidarity/mainstream

Israeli’s define trade policy, logistics and access to assets

Lack of trust between actors in the sector

Export logistics in current security situation Liberalisation: disruption in

input supplies, quality control problems

Lack of power/influence of Olive oil council and other

farmers’ representative org.

Limited access to water sources

Producer organisation

(40)

Limited research - drought /pest resistant crops

Extension

All delivered through NGO’s

Finance

Working capital and

export Credit

Insurance Savings

Pests and disease

Rainfed ag. – limited and unpredictable rainfall

OPT Agriculture viewed as an investment

Non-commercial actors with limited

business and financial skills

By-product – Olive paste

Access/maintenance of farms near settlements/

behind the wall/mountains

Supply Stability

Sector management and Trade policy

Land claiming by Israeli’s, declining

soil fertility and fragmentation

Assets

Farmer’s and Coops/groups lack

of a business mentality/passivity

Women lack time and ??

attitudesand beliefs

Consumers solidarity with Palestinian cause

Education levels and skill transfer from Israeli Ag.

Quality image being eroded by ‘Gift’ trade

Wholesalers

(120)

Domestic Manufacturers

(5%)

Export Manufacturers

(?%)

Home consumption

Irrigation – limited technologies

Donor interest

High labour cost

Coop Presses

FLO/IMO/Organic

certification

FLO pricing

Donor money

Low overall quantity

Storing changes specification

First mover advantage on FT

100% Women

95% Men

90% Men

100% men

100% men

Men andwomen

15%women

Men andwomen

100% men

100% men

SYSTEMS THINKING:SOME KEY QUESTIONS

A. What underlying causes were being addressed? How did they link to the interventions used?

B. What were the wider impacts beyond immediate beneficiaries? What lessons can be drawn from these wider impacts?

C. What were the main factors causing inequality between men and women? How did you tackle these factors?

D. What relationships with others were important? What did you do to build and benefit from them?

SYSTEMS THINKING

• Popular definition

• Examples from non-MECIS projects:

• Colombia dairy – influencing through stakeholder forums

• Ethiopia Coffee – new business model

• Tanzania Sisal – private sector linkage

Enterprise Development

Resilience Building

Innovative Services

GenderInfluence & Investment

New Business Models

GROUND RULES• Tight timing on presentations: 12 minutes plus

3 minutes for handover and points of clarification…

What else?• Punctuality?• Mobiles?• Use of laptops?• Confidentiality?• How to talk about the work of other people?• ANK?

Acronyms Nobody Knows

CONTEXT: BY LOCATIONArmenia – Azerbaijan – Georgia

– oPt (2 groups) – TajikistanPlease summarise on matching coloured Post-its the context in your location: briefly in marker pens:

• What is positive for Oxfam’s work• What is negative for Oxfam’s work

- within each of the 5 sectors:

Positive Negative

Public sector

Private sector

Civil society

Smallholder agriculture

Household/domestic culture

CONTEXT: BY SECTOR

Please study Post-its in 1 of the 5 sectors:

how much is the same and how much is different between locations?

Table U + ARIJ: Public sector

Table V + Ramila + Wassem: Private sector

Table W + Beesyna: Civil society

Table X + Ghazi: Smallholder agriculture

Table Y + Wael: Household/domestic culture

After every 4 minutes we shall move round.

PS

CS

SHA

HH/DC

PS

INNOVATIVE SERVICES: GROUP WORK

In Tajikistan and each location represented in the group that has supported innovation in services to women and men smallholders:

1. In relation to innovative services:

a) what worked well?

b) what did not work?

2. Systems questions: group 1 answers A / group 2: D / group 3: C / group 4: B – see paper

Please choose someone to record key points on the flipchart and report back a summary in plenary.

NEW BUSINESS MODELS: GROUP WORK

In Azerbaijan, West Bank and each location represented in the group that has supported links to commercial buyers and wholesale markets through new business models:

1. In relation to new business models:

a) what worked well?

b) what did not work?

2. Systems questions: group 1 answers B / group 2: A / group 3: D / group 4: C – see paper

Please summarise your answers in pictures and choose someone to explain the pictures in plenary.

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