Can A Gender Sensitive Integrated Poultry Value Chain And Nutrition Intervention Among The Rural Poor Increase Women S Empowerment In Burkina Faso

Author : Heckert, Jessica,Martinez, Elena M.,Sanou, Armande,Pedehombga, Abdoulaye,Ganaba, Rasmané,Gelli, Aulo
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
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Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Political Science
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Can a gender-sensitive integrated poultry value chain and nutrition intervention among the rural poor increase women’s empowerment in Burkina Faso? by Heckert, Jessica,Martinez, Elena M.,Sanou, Armande,Pedehombga, Abdoulaye,Ganaba, Rasmané,Gelli, Aulo Pdf

Understanding the types of food systems interventions that foster women’s empowerment and the types of women that are able to benefit from different interventions is important for development policy. SELEVER was a gender- and nutrition-sensitive poultry production intervention implemented in western Burkina Faso from 2017 to 2020 that aimed to empower women. We evaluated SELEVER using a mixed-methods cluster-randomized controlled trial, which included survey data from 1763 households at baseline and endline and a sub-sample for two interim lean season surveys. We used the multidimensional project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI), which consists of 12 binary indicators, underlying count versions of 10 of these, an aggregate empowerment score (continuous) and a binary aggregate empowerment indicator, all for women and men. Women’s and men’s scores were compared to assess gender parity. We also assessed impacts on health and nutrition agency using the pro-WEAI health and nutrition module. We estimated program impact using analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) models and examined whether there were differential impacts by flock size or among those who participated in program activities. Program impacts on empowerment and gender parity were null, despite the program’s careful approach to developing a gender-sensitive intervention. Meanwhile, results of the in-depth gender-focused qualitative work conducted near the project mid-point found there was greater awareness in the community of women’s time burden and their economic contributions, but it did not seem that awareness led to increased empowerment of women. We reflect on possible explanations for the null findings. One notable explanation may be the lack of a productive asset transfer, which have previously been shown to be essential, but not sufficient, for the empowerment of women in agricultural development programs. We consider these findings in light of current debates on asset transfers. Unfortunately, null impacts on women’s empowerment are not uncommon, and it is important to learn from such findings to strengthen future program design and delivery.

Author : Jessica Heckert,Elena M. Martinez,Armande Sanou,Abdoulaye Pedehombga,Rasmané Ganaba,Aulo Gelli
Publisher : Unknown
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Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1356466596

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Can a Gender-sensitive Integrated Poultry Value Chain and Nutrition Intervention Among the Rural Poor Increase Women's Empowerment in Burkina Faso? by Jessica Heckert,Elena M. Martinez,Armande Sanou,Abdoulaye Pedehombga,Rasmané Ganaba,Aulo Gelli Pdf

Author : Ulimwengu, John M.,Kwofie, Ebenezer M.,Collins, Julia
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 356 pages
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Release : 2023-12-04
Category : Political Science
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African food systems transformation and the post-Malabo agenda by Ulimwengu, John M.,Kwofie, Ebenezer M.,Collins, Julia Pdf

This year marks 20 years of implementing the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), which was broadened under the 2014 Malabo Declaration on Accelerated Agricultural Growth and Transformation for Shared Prosperity and Improved Livelihoods. The 2023 Annual Trends and Outlook Report generates evidence on the implementation of the CAADP/Malabo agenda and thus contributes to the design of the post-Malabo phase of CAADP implementation. The report assesses the current state of Africa's food systems, explores strategic issues related to food systems transformation, and reflects on necessary methodologies and approaches to provide a better understanding of key challenges and necessary actions to accelerate transformation.

Author : Sarah Eissler,Armande Sanou,Jessica Heckert,Emily C. Myers,Safiatou Nignan,Elisabeth Thio,Lucienne Amélie Pitropia,Rasmané Ganaba,Abdoulaye Pedehombga,Aulo Gelli
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Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1354503336

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Gendered Participation in Poultry Value Chains by Sarah Eissler,Armande Sanou,Jessica Heckert,Emily C. Myers,Safiatou Nignan,Elisabeth Thio,Lucienne Amélie Pitropia,Rasmané Ganaba,Abdoulaye Pedehombga,Aulo Gelli Pdf

Author : Leight, Jessica,Martinez, Elena M.,Heckert, Jessica,Gelli, Aulo
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-03
Category : Political Science
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The relationship between household gender attitudes and women’s poultry production: Evidence from Burkina Faso by Leight, Jessica,Martinez, Elena M.,Heckert, Jessica,Gelli, Aulo Pdf

Enhancing women’s participation in agricultural production, including livestock production, has the potential to generate a range of benefits for rural households in the developing world. These benefits include enhanced economic welfare, investment in children’s health and nutrition, and empowerment for women. However, attitudes and norms may shape the ability of women to engage in a broader range of productive activities if those activities are not viewed as traditionally female domains. The attitudes of women themselves and their husbands may be particularly salient: if women do not view livestock production as an appropriate activity to pursue based on their perception of community norms, they may not be responsive to economic incentives designed to encourage their involvement. Similarly, if husbands do not view ownership and control over assets or the sale of agriculture as appropriate roles for their wives, it may be very challenging for women to maintain or increase their role in household agricultural production.

Author : Quisumbing, Agnes R.,Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela,Malapit, Hazel J.,Seymour, Greg,Heckert, Jessica,Doss, Cheryl,Johnson, Nancy,Rubin, Deborah,Thai, Giang,Ramani, Gayathri V.,Meyers, Emily,GAAP2 for pro-WEAI Study Team
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-14
Category : Political Science
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Can agricultural development projects empower women? A synthesis of mixed methods evaluations using pro-WEAI in the gender, agriculture, and assets project (phase 2) portfolio by Quisumbing, Agnes R.,Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela,Malapit, Hazel J.,Seymour, Greg,Heckert, Jessica,Doss, Cheryl,Johnson, Nancy,Rubin, Deborah,Thai, Giang,Ramani, Gayathri V.,Meyers, Emily,GAAP2 for pro-WEAI Study Team Pdf

Agricultural development projects increasingly include women’s empowerment and gender equality among their objectives, but efforts to evaluate their impact have been stymied by the lack of comparable measures. Moreover, the context-specificity of empowerment implies that a quantitative measure alone will be inadequate to capture the nuances of the empowerment process. The Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project, Phase 2 (GAAP2), a portfolio of 13 agricultural development projects in nine countries in South Asia and Africa, developed the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI) and qualitative protocols for impact evaluations. Pro-WEAI covers three major types of agencies: instrumental, intrinsic, and collective. This paper synthesizes the results of 11 mixed-methods evaluations to assess these projects’ empowerment impacts. The projects implemented the pro-WEAI and its associated qualitative protocols in their impact evaluations. Our synthesis finds mixed, and mostly null impacts on aggregate indicators of women’s empowerment, with positive impacts more likely in the South Asian, rather than African, cases. There were more significant impacts on instrumental agency indicators and collective agency indicators, reflecting the group-based approaches used. We found few significant impacts on intrinsic agency indicators, except for those projects that intentionally addressed gender norms. Quantitative analysis does not show an association between the types of strategies that projects implemented and their impacts, except for capacity building strategies. This finding reveals the limitations of quantitative analysis, given the small number of projects involved. The qualitative studies provide more nuance and insight: some base level of empowerment and forms of agency may be necessary for women to participate in project activities, to benefit or further increase their empowerment. Our results highlight the need for projects to focus specifically on empowerment, rather than assume that projects aiming to reach and benefit women automatically empower them. Our study also shows the value of both a common metric to compare empowerment impacts across projects and contexts and qualitative work to understand and contextualize these impacts.

Author : Leight, Jessica,Awonon, Josue,Pedehombga, Abdoulaye,Ganaba, Rasmané,Martinez, Elena M.,Heckert, Jessica,Gelli, Aulo
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The impact of an integrated value chain intervention on household poultry production in Burkina Faso: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial by Leight, Jessica,Awonon, Josue,Pedehombga, Abdoulaye,Ganaba, Rasmané,Martinez, Elena M.,Heckert, Jessica,Gelli, Aulo Pdf

This article reports on a cluster-randomized controlled trial conducted in 120 villages in rural Burkina Faso evaluating a multifaceted intervention (SELEVER) that seeks to increase poultry production by delivering training in conjunction with the strengthening of village-level institutions providing veterinary and credit services to poultry farmers. The intervention is evaluated in a sample of 1,080 households surveyed following two years of program implementation. Households exposed to the intervention significantly increase their use of poultry inputs (veterinary services, enhanced feeds, and deworming), and report more poultry sold and higher revenue; however, there is no evidence of an increase in profits. This evidence is consistent with the hypothesis that the return to inputs in the poultry market may not be sufficient to counterbalance the market costs of these inputs.

Author : Sarah Eissler,Armande Sanou,Jessica Heckert,Emily C. Myers,Safiatou Nignan,Elisabeth Thio,Lucienne Amélie Pitropia,Rasmané Ganaba,Abdoulaye Pedehombga,Aulo Gelli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1353913442

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Gender Dynamics, Women's Empowerment, and Diets by Sarah Eissler,Armande Sanou,Jessica Heckert,Emily C. Myers,Safiatou Nignan,Elisabeth Thio,Lucienne Amélie Pitropia,Rasmané Ganaba,Abdoulaye Pedehombga,Aulo Gelli Pdf

Author : Johnson, Nancy L.,Balagamwala, Mysbah,Pinkstaff, Crossley,Theis, Sophie,Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela,Quisumbing, Agnes R.
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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How do agricultural development projects aim to empower women? Insights from an analysis of project strategies by Johnson, Nancy L.,Balagamwala, Mysbah,Pinkstaff, Crossley,Theis, Sophie,Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela,Quisumbing, Agnes R. Pdf

Increasing numbers of development agencies and individual projects espouse objectives of women’s empowerment, yet there has been little systematic work on mechanisms by which interventions can enhance women’s empowerment. This gap exists because of the lack of consensus on indicators as well as the lack of attention paid to measuring the effects of different types of interventions on empowerment. This paper identifies the types of strategies employed by 13 agricultural development projects within the International Food Policy Research Institute’s Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project Phase 2 (GAAP2) that have explicit objectives of empowering women. We distinguish between reach, benefit, and empowerment as objectives of agricultural development projects. Simply including women does not necessarily benefit them, and even activities that benefit do not necessarily empower. To identify strategies to empower women, we build on the domains included in the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) and are working with the GAAP2 portfolio of projects to develop an empowerment metric that is applicable in the project setting (a project-level WEAI, or pro-WEAI). We have identified the following potential domains to be included in pro-WEAI: input into production decision making, control over resources, control over income, leadership, time, physical mobility, intrahousehold relationships, individual empowerment, reduction in gender-based violence, and decision making on nutrition. The GAAP2 projects address these domains through a wide variety of activities that can be grouped into four main types: (1) direct and indirect provision of goods and services; (2) forming or strengthening groups, organizations, or platforms and networks that involve women; (3) strengthening knowledge and capacity through agricultural extension, business and finance training, nutrition behavior change communication, and other training; and (4) changing gender norms through one-way awareness raising or two-way community conversations about gender issues and their implications. In general, projects with activities in more activity areas target more domains of empowerment, and most projects target a core set of six empowerment domains. With the exception of intrahousehold relationships, which is always targeted by activities designed to influence gender norms, projects target domains with different types of activities or combinations of activities. This setup suggests that there may be no one-to-one link between a specific activity and empowerment benefits, and that implementation modalities will determine whether and how an activity contributes to women’s empowerment. The effectiveness of these project strategies will be assessed using both quantitative and qualitative methods throughout the GAAP2 research project.

Author : Brian Thompson,Leslie Amoroso
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : UIUC:30112114559534

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Improving Diets and Nutrition by Brian Thompson,Leslie Amoroso Pdf

The International Symposium on Food and Nutrition Security: Food-Based Approaches for Improving Diets and Raising Levels of Nutrition was organised by the FAO to better document the contribution that food and agriculture can make to improving nutrition. This publication presents the proceedings of the symposium. The proceedings are a useful resource for decision and policy makers, programme planners and implementers, and health workers, all of which work to combat hunger and malnutrition. Likewise, they will have appeal for professionals in the field of food security, nutrition, public health, horticulture, agronomy, animal science, food marketing, information, education, communication, food technology and development. They are also designed as a useful complementary source for graduate and postgraduate courses.

Author : Eissler, Sarah,Diatta, Ampa Dogui,Heckert, Jessica,Nordehn, Caitlin
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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A qualitative assessment of a gender-sensitive agricultural training program in Benin: Findings on program experience and women’s empowerment across key agricultural value chains by Eissler, Sarah,Diatta, Ampa Dogui,Heckert, Jessica,Nordehn, Caitlin Pdf

This study presents qualitative findings from an assessment conducted by the International Food Policy Research Institute and Cultural Practice, LLC of the African Union Development Agency-New Partnership for Africa’s Development (AUDA-NEPAD) Agricultural Technical Vocational Education and Training program for women (ATVET4Women) in Benin, supported by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). ATVET4Women in Benin targets women working in value chains for four target commodities (soy, rice, chicken, and compost) to support capacity building in their respective nodes (production, processing, and marketing). The contributions of this study are multifold. First, it assesses program experiences and impacts. Second, it examines the gender dimensions of production, processing, and marketing activities in four specific value chains. Third, this research is a component of a broader study to adapt and validate the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index for market inclusion (pro-WEAI+MI) on key agricultural value chains in Benin and Malawi for ATVET4Women. This study employed multiple qualitative methods to assess beneficiaries’ program experiences and impacts. Fifteen key informant interviews were conducted with various actors along the value chain and agro-processing center managers involved in ATVET4Women. Thirty-eight semi-structured interviews were conducted with women beneficiaries of ATVET4Women, husbands of beneficiaries, women that were involved in the value chain but did not participate in ATVET4Women, and ATVET4Women trainers. Structured observations were conducted of five ATVET4Women training centers. In general, women beneficiaries and their husbands shared positive reviews of ATVET4Women in that the program increased women’s confidence in their abilities and taught women best practices for producing and selling higher quality products, generating higher incomes for women. Women noted several challenges and barriers to participate in ATVET4Women, including limited availability to travel to or partake in the trainings due to competing demands and priorities on their time, requiring their husbands’ permission to attend, and limited means to support travel to and from trainings. Related to findings around empowerment, results suggest that an empowered woman is closely tied to her ability to generate income, regardless of her decision-making autonomy, whereas an empowered man is one who generates higher incomes and is autonomous in his decision-making. A woman is expected to be submissive to her husband and defer to his decision-making, which holds implications for her ability to participate in activities outside of the household, including but not limited to ATVET4Women and similar programs. This study concludes with specific recommendations for ATVET4Women and similar programs to consider in future iterations of further programming to increase women’s empowerment in Benin.

Author : Njuki, Jemimah,Eissler, Sarah,Malapit, Hazel J.,Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela,Bryan, Elizabeth,Quisumbing, Agnes R.
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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A review of evidence on gender equality, women’s empowerment, and food systems by Njuki, Jemimah,Eissler, Sarah,Malapit, Hazel J.,Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela,Bryan, Elizabeth,Quisumbing, Agnes R. Pdf

Achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment in food systems can result in greater food security and better nutrition, and in more just, resilient, and sustainable food systems for all. This paper uses a scoping review to assess the current evidence on pathways between gender equality, women’s empowerment, and food systems. The paper uses an adaptation of the food systems framework to organize the evidence and identify where evidence is strong, and where gaps remain. Results show strong evidence on women’s differing access to resources, shaped and reinforced by contextual social gender norms, and on links between women’s empowerment and maternal education and important outcomes, such as nutrition and dietary diversity. However, evidence is limited on issues such as gender considerations in food systems for women in urban areas and in aquaculture value chains, best practices and effective pathways for engaging men in the process of women’s empowerment in food systems, and for addressing issues related to migration, crises, and indigenous food systems. And while there are gender informed evaluation studies that examine the effectiveness of gender- and nutrition- sensitive agricultural programs, evidence to indicate the long-term sustainability of such impacts remains limited. The paper recommends keys areas for investment: improving women’s leadership and decision-making in food systems, promoting equal and positive gender norms, improving access to resources, and building cross-contextual research evidence on gender and food systems.

Author : Aichi J. Kitalyi,Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9251041601

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Village Chicken Production Systems in Rural Africa by Aichi J. Kitalyi,Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

"The poultry production systems of Africa are mainly based on the scavenging indigenous chickens found in virtually all villages and households in rural Africa. These systems are characterized by low output per bird. Nevertheless, over 70 percent of the poultry products and 20 percent of animal protein intake in most African countries come from this sector. Therefore, increased rural poultry production would result in a positive impact on household food security both in increased dietary intake and in income generation. ... This study coincided with the World Food Summit, held at FAO, Rome, from 13 to 17 November 1996, where delegations committed their governments and civil society to a global attack on food insecurity and poverty. Poultry, like other short-cycle animal stock, is viewed by the FAO Special Programme for Food Security (SPFS) as a crucial element in the struggle for sustained food production and poverty alleviation. The guidelines provided in this study are particularly pertinent to those countries participating in the SPFS where village chicken production will have a substantial impact on increased household food security and gender equity."--Foreword.

Author : Jessica Heckert,Jessica Leight,Josué Awonon,Aulo Gelli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1356405939

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Understanding the Role of Different Program Components of a Nutrition Sensitive Intervention in Mediating Impact by Jessica Heckert,Jessica Leight,Josué Awonon,Aulo Gelli Pdf

Author : Quisumbing, Agnes R.,Ahmed, Akhter,Hoddinott, John F.,Pereira, Audrey,Roy, Shalini
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-12
Category : Political Science
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Designing for empowerment impact in agricultural development projects: Experimental evidence from the Agriculture, Nutrition, and Gender Linkages (ANGeL) project in Banglades by Quisumbing, Agnes R.,Ahmed, Akhter,Hoddinott, John F.,Pereira, Audrey,Roy, Shalini Pdf

The importance of women’s roles for nutrition-sensitive agricultural projects is increasingly recognized, yet little is known about whether such projects improve women’s empowerment and gender equality. We study the Agriculture, Nutrition, and Gender Linkages (ANGeL) pilot project, which was implemented as a cluster-randomized controlled trial by the Government of Bangladesh. The project’s treatment arms included agricultural training, nutrition behavior change communication (BCC), and gender sensitization trainings to husbands and wives together – with these components combined additively, such that the impact of gender sensitization could be distinguished from that of agriculture and nutrition trainings. Empowerment was measured using the internationally-validated project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI), and attitudes regarding gender roles were elicited from both men and women, to explore potentially gender-transformative impacts. Our study finds that ANGeL increased both women’s and men’s empowerment, raised the prevalence of households achieving gender parity, and led to small improvements in the gender attitudes of both women and men. We find significant increases in women’s empowerment scores and empowerment status from all treatment arms but with no significant differences across these. We find no evidence of unintended impacts on workloads and we note inconclusive evidence of possible increases in intimate partner violence (IPV). Our results also suggest some potential benefits of bundling nutrition and gender components with an agricultural development intervention; however, many of these benefits seem to be driven by bundling nutrition with agriculture. While we cannot assess the extent to which including men and women within the same treatment arms contributed to our results, it is plausible that the positive impacts of all treatment arms on women’s empowerment outcomes may have arisen from implementation modalities that provided information to both husbands and wives when they were together. The role of engaging men and women jointly in interventions is a promising area for future research.