A revised version of the Gender and Assets Toolkit is available online. This toolkit has been developed as part of the Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project (GAAP) to assist researchers and practitioners who are either new or unfamiliar with using mixed methods for gender and assets data collection and analysis. In addition to establishing the need for gender and assets research, the toolkit defines key concepts and highlights methods for collection, analysis, and dissemination. It also draws from first-hand insights (opportunities and challenges) from previous research projects. For those interested in more in-depth study, the toolkit also links to additional references. This toolkit is a living document that is intended to develop over the life course of the GAAP project. We encourage you to share your experiences doing gender-assets data collection.
The GAAP conceptual framework discussion paper is now available online as part of the working paper series of the CAPRi Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRi) program. This paper reviews the literature on gender and assets and offers a conceptual framework for understanding the gendered pathways through which asset accumulation occurs, including attention to not only men's and women's assets but also those they share in joint control and ownership. Unlike previous frameworks, this model depicts the gendered dimensions of each component of the pathway in recognition of the evidence that men and women not only control, own, or dispose of assets in different ways, but also access, control, and own different kinds of assets . The discussion paper can be accessed here
The mid-term workshop of the Gender Agriculture and Assets Project (GAAP) was held between November 3rd and 6th at the BRAC center in Rajendrapur Bangladesh. Representatives from implementing teams and M&E partners of all portfolio projects were in attendance. Over the course of three days project team members shared their progress to date, discussed challenges and potential mid-course adjustments, mapped their own projects into the GAAP conceptual framework and collaborated with other teams to discuss and define capacity building needs related to gender and assets.
We are happy to share materials from the mid term workshop online. You can access presentations here and photos of the workshop here.
Objectives of the workshop included:
- Understanding of the GAAP’s refined conceptual framework and how each project fits within it.
- Knowledge of the project vision and milestones of overall project
- Information on the status of each project and its position in relationship to overall project activities
- Identification of opportunities and techniques for gendered midcourse adjustments, as needed
- Understanding of the GAAP’s capacity building strategy for grantees and evaluation partners
- Understanding of a dissemination and outreach strategy for sharing project results across projects and plan to synthesize lessons learned
- Identification of plans for Year 2 (including how the comparative analysis will be handled).
Many thanks to the BRAC team for their excellent job organizing the workshop and to Joyce Wanderi and Ginette Mignot who also provided invaluable assistance.
After a competitive process, we are pleased to announce the 8 participating projects in the Gender Agriculture and Assets Project round 1 portfolio. This round one portfolio represents a diverse array of agricultural and dairy interventions from throughout South Asia, East Africa and West Africa.
- BRAC (Bangladesh)
- CARE (Bangladesh)
- Helen Keller International (Burkina Faso)
- Land O’Lakes (Mozambique)
- Kickstart International (Tanzania and Kenya)
- Harvest Plus (Uganda)
- Landesa (India)
- CSISA (South Asia)
To learn more about each individual project see the "round 1 portfolio" section of the website
The Infant & Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project is pleased to introduce a set of resources, including a Nutritional Impact Assessment Tool, to help agriculture project designers maximize nutritional benefits for women, children, and other vulnerable groups. This week, the IYCN Project will share the new resources at the International Food Policy Research Institute’s Leveraging Agriculture for Improving Nutrition and Health Conference in New Delhi, India, where agriculture, health, and nutrition colleagues will explore how to better use investments in agriculture to achieve nutrition security and good health for the world’s poorest people.
Bringing women’s and children’s nutrition to the forefront of agriculture
The most nutritionally vulnerable populations, particularly women and children, should benefit from efforts to improve agriculture. Yet their nutritional needs often have low priority for agricultural projects focused on increasing production and incomes. By putting women’s and children’s nutrition needs at the forefront of the planning process, agriculture projects can reduce malnutrition and build healthy futures. IYCN’s new resources offer practical guidance for project designers aiming to meet this challenge.
In Her Name: Measuring the Gender Asset Gap in Ecuador, Ghana and India, is a collaborative research study of the Centre of Public Policy (CPP) at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB), University of Ghana, American University, Yale University, University of Florida and the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO), Ecuador. Housed at IIMB, this study looks at the incidence of asset ownership of men and women separately within the same household to estimate the gender asset gap and the gender wealth gap.
This paper evaluates effects of community-level women's property and inheritance rights on women's economic outcomes using a 13 year longitudinal panel from rural Tanzania. In the preferred model specification, inverse probability weighting is applied to a woman-level fixed effects model to control for individual-level time invariant heterogeneity and attrition. Results indicate that changes in women's property and inheritance rights are significantly associated with women's employment outside the home, self-employment and earnings. Results are not limited to sub-groups of marginalised women. Findings indicate lack of gender equity in sub-Saharan Africa may inhibit economic development for women and society as a whole.
There is a renewed interest in whether land reforms can contribute to market development and poverty reduction in Africa. This paper assesses effects on the allocative efficiency of the land rental market of the low-cost approach to land registration and certification of restricted property rights that was implemented in Ethiopia in the late 1990s. Four rounds of a balanced household panel from 16 villages in northern Ethiopia are analysed, showing that land certification initially enhanced land rental market participation of (potential) tenant and landlord households, especially those that are headed by females.
Household survey data for 1983–2000 from India's National Sample Survey Organisation are used to examine the impact of credit on self-employment among men and women in rural labour households. Results indicate that credit access encourages women's self-employment as own-account workers and employers, while it discourages men's self-employment as unpaid family workers. Ownership of land, a key form of collateral, also serves as a strong predictor of self-employment. Among the lower castes in India, self-employment is less likely for scheduled castes prone to wage activity, but more likely for scheduled tribes prone to entrepreneurial work.
This paper examines household asset dynamics and gender-differentiated asset inequality over a 20-year period (1988–2008) in northern Nigeria. We show that the initial endowments of both household capital and livestock holdings are inconsistent with the poverty trap hypothesis but that tracking rules for households in panel surveys may lead to differences in empirical results on poverty traps. We also investigate whether initial household endowments contributed to gender-differentiated future asset levels and asset inequality. Initial livestock holdings have an effect on women’s future livestock holdings but not on their livestock shares within the household, as the effect of initial livestock holdings on men’s future livestock levels was much greater than its effect on women’s levels. The mechanism through which asset levels differed was related to the relative prices of the assets in gender-differentiated asset portfolios. Men, who primarily held larger livestock with larger unit values, benefited from large price increases in high-value livestock, while women held lower-value livestock. These price fluctuations reinforced gender asset inequality within households for both types of assets considered.
Andrew Dillon and Esteban J. Quiñones
http://www.ifpri.org/publication/asset-dynamics-northern-nigeria
The manual Developing Gender Statistics: A Practical Tool aims to guide statistical organizations in the production and use of gender statistics, building upon the seminal work Engendering Statistics: A Tool for Change by Statistics Sweden (Hedman et al., 1996).
Chapters 1 and 2 of the manual explain the importance of producing and analyzing statistics on gender differences. Chapter 3 provides guidance on data production and Chapter 4 looks in detail at selected topics relevant to gender statistics and the implications for data collection. Chapter 5 examines methods for improving the use of gender statistics through communication strategies and dissemination platforms such as interactive databases and websites. An important component of any initiative to develop statistics on gender is advocacy and partnership building. Chapter 6 provides guidance on ‘making it happen’ through campaigning for top management support, creating legislation and defining a gender statistics program.