Gender Gap in Agricultural Support Services

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Gender-responsive agriculture support service

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FAO Gender and Rural Advisory Services Assessment Tool

Gender responsive business model canvas (GRBMC)

Case studies
Gender Gap in Agricultural Support Services

Key Points
Lack of gender responsive services
Effectiveness of equal distribution of knowledge, information and technology is a challenge
Womens role in agriculture is undervalued, hence women tend to remain invisible to service providers
Women's higher rate of illiteracy
Constraints on their time and freedom of movement
Prvention of women's interaction with men outside their immediate family
Staff working in extension and rural advisory services is typically male
Govt. extension programmes requiring beneficiaries to be the owners or managers of certain assets (e.g. land)
Or sometime requiring to be members of producer associations

Gender-responsive agriculture support service

Consider seasonality and informality of their enterprises and employment
Consider heavy burden of unpaid household and care work
The lack of collateral
the lack of adequate infrastructure in their communities and their consequent movement and time constraints

FAO Gender and Rural Advisory Services Assessment Tool

Relevance
Availability
Accessibility
Affordability

Gender responsive business model canvas (GRBMC)

Assess busines model for service provision
If & to what extent, the services can be considered "gender responsive"
Assessed under 10 domains:
Key partners, Key activities, Value propositions, Customer relationships, Customer segments, Key resources,
Impact, Channels, Cost structure, Revenue streams
Understand whether providing gender-responsive services is financially and commercially viable
How to cover the extra costs and make such services relevant, available, accessible and affordable for women

Case studies
Mechanization support to women in Benin
Supported 15 Women led cooperatives that process cassava
Application of GRBMC helped narrow down 15 cooperatives to 7

Kyagalanyi Coffee Ltd in Uganda

Men owns coffeee plantations
They do the selling and manage the resulting income
Women performs critical and labour intensive tasks: preparing seedlings, weeding, pruning, thinning and picking)
Kyagalanyi needed RA's certification: Hence developed an extension service
However initially trained male only since they were the business owners
Did not result sufficient quality improvement in cofee beans
Then identified the problem and trained women
Kyagalanyi increased their female staff from 3% to 24% over 4 years
Kyagalanyi also came up with a program to address unequal gender dynamics in the household
They adopted a "household approach" for training on GAPs
Both husband and wife jointly attended training: gave a sense of a family business.
Training were aimed at increasing financial tranparency, collaboration and decision-making at hh level.

Dinarak in Jordan
Mobile wallet gave more financial independence for women
In BMIC lacks female Fos

Mostly with women having schooling children under 10

BMIC cluster model
Poort Public transport. Late hour security issues

Seems like they did a project appraisal using GRBMC

We might need to compensate daily wage in that case
Need to find out right type of livelihoods where female also engaged