Progress on gender research in the Tanzania value chain in 2014 and 2015

Alessandra Galiè

Livestock and Fish Gender Team MeetingAscoli Piceno, Italy, 15-16 September 2014

L&F Value Chains: Focus on Tanzania

Goal: inclusive and reduced poverty and vulnerability among dairy-dependent livelihoods in selected rural areas in Tanzania.

Gender component: Gender equity so that rural poor women and men are more income secure through dairy market hubs

Projects with a gender component:MoreMilkiT

Goal: Improved household income, food security and wellbeing of agro-pastoral communities through a dairy goats crossbreeding programme and improved cassava and sweet potato varieties for food and feed.

Gender component: to overcome constraints and take advantage of opportunities to promote gender equality and equity within project communities

Projects with a gender component:Crops and Goats project (CGP)

Goal: boost the milk yields and incomes of small-scale farmers in Africa so they can lift their communities out of hunger and poverty

ILRI’s gender component: to assess the effectiveness of the gender strategy on the ground

Projects with a gender component:East Africa Dairy Development 2

• Report: ‘Gender experiences with dairy goat projects in Tanzania’ - consultants

• Report: ‘ILRI’s experience with the CGP project in Tanzania from a gender perspective’ – consultants

• Sep – Dec Paper ‘Emerging issues in dairy VC in TZ’ (consultant)

• 2015: At least 1 of the 2 reports above to become journal article

• 2015: Evidence to inform gender strategy

• 2015: Gender integrated in Best Bets

• 2015/2016: Gender dynamics and issues in consumer demands?

• 2015/2016: Study complementarity between dairy VCs?

Strategic research: Gender issues in dairy VC

• Study: Effectiveness of EADD hubs approach in involving women in Kenya and Uganda

• Article: Assessment of gender issues in the EADD approach in Kenya and Uganda to inform hubs approach in TZ – with Fulbright scholar

• 2015: Evidence to inform gender strategy

• 2015: Hubs approach further improved

Strategic research: Gender and hubs approaches

• Article: Galiè A., A. Mulema and A. M. Mora Benard: ‘Exploring gender perceptions of resource ownership and their implications for food security among 138 rural livestock owners in Tanzania, Ethiopia and Nicaragua’. Submitted

• 2015: Comparison of evidence from other VC countries?

• 2015: Findings inform VC quantitative and qualitative tools

Strategic research: Ownership

• Article: Galiè A. and P. Kantor: ‘From gender analysis to transforming gender norms: using empowerment pathways to enhance gender equity and food security in Tanzania’. Forthcoming.

• Conference paper and presentation: Galiè A., P. Kantor 2014: From gender analysis to transforming gender norms: using empowerment pathways to enhance gender equity and food security in Tanzania, paper for the Food Security Dialogue, May 1-2, University of Alberta, Canada.

• 2015: Global study - Gender norms and agency vis-à-vis innovation in agriculture and NRM

Strategic research: Empowerment and GTA

• Social media strategy for CGP (consultant): encourage social change in gender norms through social media

• Sep-Dec Gender and social media strategy for MoreMilkiT

• 2015: social media strategy implemented

• Tools: • Empowerment and livestock survey tool drafted• Oct empowerment tool used as baseline• Oct-Nov: GTA tools tested• 2015: Develop and utilize participatory empowerment

pathways approach

Strategic research: Empowerment and GTA

• Cross-CRP collaboration: initiated a dialogue, identified research needs; defined collaboration with Signe (PIM)

• Seminar ‘African Dairy Value Chain Seminar’ incl. gender and policy tools

• Tools: consultant to develop a paper on existing tools

• 2015: tools used to identify existing and needed policies that enhance a gender equitable participation in the VC

Strategic research: Policy

• Tool: empowerment assessment tool and nutrition (with A4NH and Emory)

• Study: Collaboration with SUA in CGP

• Proposal SPIA ‘Looking beyond income: impact of dairy hubs on human nutrition in Tanzania’

• 2015 Proposal - Postdoctoral fellow on Gender, nutrition and value chains – with A4NH and IFPRI

Integrated research: Nutrition

Feeds and forages• Proposal: Sustainable intensification of crop-livestock systems

through improved forages in Tanzania - with CIAT to BMZ

• Proposal: A study to understand fodder markets and fodder trading patterns in MoreMilkiT/MilkIT project sites in Tanzania – to L&F

Climate change • 2015 Proposal - Post Doctoral fellow on Climate Change

Adaptation and Mitigation in East Africa Dairy Supply Chains – with CCAFS

Integrated research:Feeds and forages - Climate change

• 2015: Some suggested topics - to be developed with KIT:

• Gender and empowerment (with CARE, SUA and Alberta)

• Gender and feeds: gender and intensive forage systems

• Gender and food security and grazing patterns (with SNV)

• Gender, land tenure policies and practices vis-à-vis engagement in dairy VC

• Gender and breeding/health: baseline on division of labour

Integrated research: suggested topics

• Co-developed and shared a questionnaire with partners to assess their gender capacity needs.

• Sep – Dec 2015: Consultant hired to: a) Enhance the gender capacity assessment tool b) Use tool to identify partners’ gender gaps c) Identify interventions based on assessment d) Prepare and deliver appropriate training modules

Capacity development and gender

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