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Soumis par Holvoet Katrien le ven, 07/07/2017 - 13:39 Permalien
agree let it be a gender sensitive agribusiness incubation toolkit
Soumis par Holvoet Katrien le jeu, 06/07/2017 - 09:03 Permalien
There are some initiatives in Bénin on soya bean processing that indicate huge potentials for the female processors who were assisted to organise, increase their business skills and take up other functions in the value chain, an evaluation documented further need for coaching (by peer business women), and much more support needed in terms of norms and standardisation for the product, certification by authorities as conditions for differentiation and extra value capture by these women I will try to send you the link
In CI FAO is with its partners (regional authorities, national authorities, donor agencies) promoting SCOOPs and the management of FTT Thiaroye smoking technology platforms. The women master the technology and start working as a cooperative but there are main issues remaining to be adressed (integration in a national fish value chain upgrading strategy with actions on short chains, differentiation processes, set up a coaching system, market information system) before it will bring a sustainable change in their value addition but the potentials are important
I would like to add as well a word on the importance of national and regional agriculture investment plans (ECOWAS regional plan) where much more could be gained (return on investment) if gender sensitive budgetting and monitoring would assist decision makers to adjust investment plans, contribute to reduction of constraints and obstacles for female entrepreneurs at the macro level. Bottom up is very important (as another contributor to this forum pointed out) but we should work together to see that the macro level does its work as well
Soumis par Holvoet Katrien le mer, 05/07/2017 - 09:39 Permalien
I fully support the entry and would add that the mentoring of women by women could benefit as well from group meetings at regular intervals whereby the husbands are invited
another important issue is strengthening the capacity of the female entrepreneurs to understand and put in practice differenciation as a strategy to add value to their products
Soumis par Holvoet Katrien le mar, 04/07/2017 - 08:10 Permalien
What are the challenges to women’s engagement in priority value chains, agribusiness and industries, including value addition, and commercialization of agricultural products?
NAIP could be assisting in coordinating efforts to support women in priority value chains through clear targets in numbers and ratio of female entrepreneurs, girls benifitting from both credit lines, extension services (specific those towards improving management, cooperative movements capacity building, processes for certification and product standards; marketing support). Most of the NAIP's are lacking in gender sensitivity, have no gender sensitive budgets and gender indicators. AfDB could assist Ministries in charge of commerce, agriculture and women affairs to collaborate and improve NAIP's in terms of guarantees for reducing gender gaps How should the Bank address these challenges? promote the use of gender sensitive budgetting in NAIP's and assist monitoring and evaluation of gender indicators; the process should lead to reporting at national level on reduction of gender gaps in agricbusiness and value chain development efforts.
How could the ENABLE (Empowering Novel Agri-Business-Led Employment) Youth initiative, be used to support gender equality in these sub-sectors? Create at the level of the specific value chain platforms a "gender support group" and initiate gender indicators monitoring systems that are participatory and measuring both qualitative and quantitative indicators with reporting at the level of Financial and technical partners platforms and ministerial level.
please inform me if you would
Soumis par Holvoet Katrien le ven, 07/07/2017 - 13:44 Permalien
please inform me if you would need more details, I could send them through mail. I would as well suggest that the african development bank could assist with more funding for monitoring and evaluation and making the case : set up task force groups to define and agree on indicators cross donors , and bring together quality data (in the task force, statisticians, gender experts and value chain experts) to make strong cases and bring them to international fora SDO and AU