Gender writeshop

4-9 April 2016

Part of the L&F Gender Initiative

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Objectives

Produce a book: to share L&F experiences on gender integration within L&F and beyond

Audience: agricultural research institutes (CGIAR, NARIs, FARA, CORAF); CRP management teams; technical, systems and value chain scientists; Gender Network of CG

The writeshop aims to document findings and insights on gender dimensions of technical and institutional interventions and approaches of L&F. It seeks to share the learning vis a vis gender integrated R4D more broadly than the individual researchers involved – both within the CRP and beyond. The on-site professional editor (Paul Mundy) will ensure readability and a common tone and support in the formulation of the research project examples. KIT Advisors will frame and guide the content based on the ongoing coaching experience and insights .

Process

The writing workshop – ‘writeshop’ – will document learning on gender integration in the CRP Livestock and Fish. It will capture both process and content learning from integrating gender in technical and systems research and tools. It will provide insights as to the gender integrated research agenda and how gender integration can be fostered within agricultural research institutes. Preliminary findings from gender integrated research projects will also be shared and discussed.

A writeshop has three main advantages. Firstly, it supports scientists in digesting and making sense of their gender-integrated research results. Secondly, it enables reflection, in this case, across the different gender-integrated initiatives to stimulate cross-learning as to how to effectively integrate gender within a CG research program like Livestock and Fish. Thirdly, the writeshop will support gender scientists and the Gender Initiative in articulating and documenting lessons from the gender integration experience allowing continued improvement to the input and direction provided to the technical and systems colleagues on gender analysis.

In terms of design and facilitation of that writeshop process. These key steps are foreseen: 1) Documentation of analysis, findings and conclusions of research projects. The research proposals or options funded through the ILRI fellowship and/or those that have received coaching have captured the results of their work in short reports submitted January 25 2016. Based on these reports and ongoing analysis, the research projects will be thematically clustered. The specific research question of the projects will be linked to the broader CRP L&F gender integration research agenda. This will enable higher level analysis and synthesis during the writeshop.

2) Documentation of learning on integrating gender. (This can include identifying and making sense of challenges and successes that researchers faced along the way.) Lessons on gender integration will also be clustered, for instance around types of research (technical, social), challenges around prevailing assumptions, or accommodative or transformative orientation of the research project. Analysis and lessons related to interdisciplinarity will also be included.

3) Reflection to feed ongoing /future research as well as strategic planning processes. The writeshop will include work sessions to allow the gender integrated research around one theme or flagship to be presented and discussed. Results, lessons and implications will be discussed face-to-face, and the scientists can together pull out higher level lessons and insights related to gender integration in the CRP and in technical livestock and fish research more broadly. These will be written up as recommendations or insights to support ongoing or planned research and to feed into strategic planning processes for phase 2 of the CRPs (starting 2017).

Outputs

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Participants

	Name	Institute/affiliation	Role/project
1	Peter Ballantyne	ILRI- L&F Communications	Blogs, other communications
2	Paul Mundy	KIT – subcontracted	English editor, support in writing research project examples, lay-out
3	Nasrin Sultana	KIT – Gender Initiative	Facilitation, writing, writing support; Engendering FEAST; Gender analysis of the fish feed value chain leading to action research to overcome gender based constraints to women’s participation; Design and piloting of gender integrated/gender transformative best-bets in Bangladesh fish value chain Follow-up to the Gender integrated fish VCA;
4	Anouka van Eerdewijk	KIT – Gender Initiative	Facilitation, writing, writing support
5	Rhiannon Pyburn	KIT – Gender Initiative	Facilitation, writing, writing support
6	Genevieve Audet-Belanger	KIT – film clips	Making and editing short interview films
7	Alessandra Galie	ILRI –Gender Initiative NBO	Mainstreaming gender in feed and fodder interventions in “Moremilkit” sites in Tanzania; Gender in designing and implementing dairy (TZ) and pig (UG) hubs
8	Annet Mulema	ILRI – Gender Initiative ET	Engendering FEAST; Differential gender impacts of animal diseases in small ruminant production in Ethiopia;
9	Isabelle Baltenweck	ILRI-VC, SASI, GI	All projects input; Mainstreaming gender in the assessment of dairy producer organisations sustainability
10	Wole Kinati	KIT – Gender Initiative ET	Engendering FEAST;
11	Froukje Kruijssen	WF - Gender Initiative NL/BGD	Design and piloting of gender integrated/gender transformative best-bets in Bangladesh fish value chain Follow-up to the Gender integrated fish VCA; Gender analysis of the fish feed value chain leading to action research to overcome gender based constraints to women’s participation
12	Fayzur Rahman	WF - Gender Initiative BGD	Gender analysis of the fish feed value chain leading to action research to overcome gender based constraints to women’s participation
13	Alejandra Mora	CIAT–Gender Initiative NIC	ADA-Genetics Nicaragua a joint project between ILRI, CIAT, UNA (Agrarian University of Nicaragua­); social media masculinity vignettes, other TBD
15	Mark van Wijk	ILRI-SASI	Evaluating best-bet intervention in contrasting L&F value chains in sub Saharan Africa in a gender differentiated manner: from household to intra household level patterns
16	Catherine Pfeifer	ILRI-SASI	Mapping gender dimensions: towards gender sensitive geographical targeting and scaling out
18	Emily Ouma	ILRI-UG-VC	Gender in designing and implementing dairy (TZ) and pig (UG) hubs
19	Mamun Rashid	WF-BGD-VC-FF	Gender analysis of the fish feed value chain leading to action research to overcome gender based constraints to women’s participation
X	Froukje Kruijssen	WF-NL-BGD-VC	Design and piloting of gender integrated/gender transformative best-bets in Bangladesh fish value chain Follow-up to the Gender integrated fish VCA
X	Isabelle Baltenweck	Consultant – gender - quantitative	Mainstreaming gender in the assessment of dairy producer organisations sustainability; multiple projects
20	Barbara Weiland	ILRI-ET-AH-FF	Differential gender impacts of animal diseases in small ruminant production in Ethiopia
21	Michel Dione	ILRI-UG-AH	Gender dimensions of pig management in the smallholder pig production systems in Uganda: case of control of African Swine Fever
22	Ben Lukuyu	ET-TZ-FF	Engendering FEAST
X	Alessandra Galie	ILRI – GI- VC - TZ	//Mainstreaming gender in feed and fodder interventions in “Moremilkit” sites in Tanzania - Ololilie
X	Alejandra Mora	CIAT–GI- NIC	ADA-Genetics Nicaragua a joint project between ILRI, CIAT, UNA (Agrarian University of Nicaragua­); or under VC (social media masculinity vignettes)
24	Karen Marshall	ILRI- NBO- GE	Dairy genetics project – Senegal – data interpretation