Gender Mainstreaming in Agriculture and Rural Development

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Gain basic skills in gender mainstreaming.
• Understand the place of gender in rural development.
• Seek to assist in advancing gender equality in agriculture and rural development sector
• Understand the gender issues and needs in the agriculture sector.
• Acquire skills on mainstreaming gender in the agriculture sector.
• Appreciate the need for gender-sensitive monitoring and evaluation in agriculture and food security.

Introduction

• Basic gender concepts
• Overview of gender mainstreaming
• Impacts of gender mainstreaming
• Gender mainstreaming system
• Enabling environment for GMS
• GMS structures and functions

Gender and Rural Development

• Gender, society, and culture
• Gender role in building sustainable livelihoods
• Gender dimensions of rural poverty
• Gender and rural community development
• Gender, social groups, and participation

Gender and agriculture livelihoods

• Agriculture and rural development
• Gender and food security
• Gender and rural finance
• Gender in rural infrastructure for agricultural livelihoods
• Gender mainstreaming in health and nutrition
• Mainstreaming gender in urban agriculture and food Security
• Mainstreaming gender in climate change adaptation planning for the agriculture sector

Gender issues and needs in the agriculture sector

• Equal access to natural resources and services
• Gender differences in roles and activities
• Gender and agricultural extension, research and technology
• Gender, agricultural diversity and the commercialization of agriculture
• Empowerment and access to decision making

Mainstreaming gender in the agriculture policy sector    

• Issues of Gender Inequality in the policy area
• Gender equality policy objectives
• Relevance of gender in the policy area
• Policy process and implications
• Constraints in the development of policies
• Gender advocacy for food and nutrition security

Gender-sensitive monitoring and evaluation in agriculture and food security

• Introduction to M and E in Gender and food security
• Gender issues in monitoring evaluation
• Prioritizing gender in M and E plans
• Exploring gender in M and E plans in nutrition
• Selecting indicators to measure gender-related outputs and outcomes
• Impact of food distribution on genders’ vulnerability
• Case studies

FOR WHOM

This course is intended for various actors in Agriculture Extension (Agricultural extension officers, senior agricultural officials and policy makers)

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.