CTA Gender and Climate Smart Agriculture Workshop

Raymond BrandesDirector, Development Connect

Nairobi, 2 November 2016

Development Connect provides high-quality technical expertise combined with contextual understanding

and a multidisciplinary approach ensures lasting results through Business, Policy and Programming and

Implementation Consultancy Services in Organisational Transformation, (Pro-Poor) Public-Private Partnerships, Private Sector Development,

Agricultural Value Chain Development, Gender, Green Economy, Capacity Development and Assessments,

Inclusive Business Promotion, Knowledge Capture and Sharing, and Executive Coaching and Change

Management.

• Clarification of terms• Approaches to include gender in Climate Smart

Agriculture• Mind setting into gender and programme/proposal

development

Objectives

Definitions: Sex and Gender• SEX is the biological difference between men and

women. Sex differences are concerned with men’s and women’s bodies. Sexual differences are the same throughout the human race.

• GENDER refers to the socially given attributes, roles, activities, and responsibilities connected to being a female or a male in a given society. These are learned, changeable over time, and have wide variations within and between cultures and should be analyzed with other socio-economic variables.

Implications of Gender Constraints

• “Gender constraints” significantly reduce the productivity of both the rural sector and the entire national economy

• Misunderstanding of gender differences leads to inadequate planning and design of projects and the perpetuation of gender inequalities and diminished returns on investments

What is “Gender Analysis”?

“Processes that make visible the varied roles women, men, girls and boys play in the family, in the community, and in economic, legal and political structures”

Gender Analysis

Looks at how power relations within the household inter-relate with those at community, market, national or international level.

Questions in gender analysis:

* Who does what? When? Where?

* Who has what?

* Who decides and how?

* Who gains? Who loses?

Practical Gender Needs

* A response to short-term, immediately perceived needs-mainly arising from and reinforcing

particular women’s reproductive and productive role

* Do not challenge the subordinate position of women (ex. Clean water, health care, housing food provision)

Women’s needs differ from men’s needs because of their different tasks and responsibilities

Strategic Gender Needs* Response to long-term needs arising from women’s subordinate position-challenges the nature of the gendered relationship between women and men

* Women involved as agents of change

* Leads to a transformation of gender division of labor for all women (Ex. Access to resources, land, credit, etc.; measures against mail violence; control over own body)

Women’s needs differ from men’s needs because of their different positions in society

“Gender Mainstreaming”

“It is a strategy for making the concerns and experiences of women as well as of men an integral

part of the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies and programs in all political, economic and societal spheres, so that

women and men benefit equally, and inequality is not perpetuated. The ultimate goal of mainstreaming

is to achieve gender equality.”

Gender analysis provides a lens through which differences can explored and assessed between the roles that women and men play, the varying levels of power they hold, their differing needs, constraints and opportunities and the impact of these differences on their lives.

Important:• Participation/representation of men & women• Consideration of gendered (practical/strategic) needs based on

concerns and experiences/constraints• Gender-responsive results (accommodative/transformative)• Gender disaggregated data – quantitative and “qualitative”

(collection & means of verification)

Gender accommodating approaches recognize and respond to the specific (practical) needs and realities of men and women based on their existing roles and responsibilities (often means women empowerment or capacity building).

Gender transformative approaches aim to enhance how women are integrated into development (strategic needs), through improving their access to resources and technologies and the like, while also acting explicitly to change gender norms and relations in order to promote more equitable relationships between men and women and a more socially enabling environment.

Accommodating or transforming?

Equity and equality are two strategies we can use in an effort to produce fairness. Equity is giving everyone what they need to be successful. Equality is treating everyone

the same. Equality aims to promote fairness, but it can only work if everyone starts from the same place and needs the

same help. That’s why affirmative action is sometimes needed.

Capacity Development

Individual Organizational / communal

Institutional / societal

Partners

Partners

Partners

Gender analysis

Gender accommodating/transformative approaches

M&E

EXAMPLE: Energy for cooking

Practical Needs• Improved access

to clean energy

Strategic Needs• Equal sharing of

household tasks and

responsibilities

Outcomes• Empowerment• Improved

livelihood• Capacity

Gender and Climate Smart Agriculture

EnergyWomen cook health

Men cook as well health, GE and hh income

Vegetables need less cooking time

Women cook more time to be productive

Men cook as well GE and hh income

9 and 10 November 2016Safari Park Hotel, Nairobi

Questions?

THANK YOU!

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