Dear Jagriti and Nong Ngoc,
last year I attended a workshop here in IFAD on gender equity in value chain projects. The most interesting part was the discussion around a new methology developped by Weman (a programme of the Oxfam Novib) together with partners in Uganda, Sudan, Pakistan, Peru and other countries. This new methology is called GALS (Gender Action Learning System) and it has been adopted by many projects already. The nice thing is that it is a comunity-led process.
Please refer to this web page to know more about it: http://www.wemanglobal.org . You will find a manual in which this methodology is explained.
I hope this is useful,
Martina

Posted on 2/21/12 11:08 AM.

Dear Martina,

Thanks for your reply and directing us to wemanglobal.org. The GALS tool is very useful and very powerful indeed.
The video on the site are very interesting and make things easy to understand.

Thank u,
Warm regards,
Jagriti

Posted on 2/23/12 3:19 AM in reply to Martina Huonder.

Dear all,
Please visit the link below. Martina has explained about GAL and provided links to manuals.
Thanks again Martina!

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Posted on 2/23/12 3:24 AM.

Dear Nong Ngoc

I do not know if you have found any useful documents on the internet. If you do not have them, these links may be of interest:

Gender and value chains:
www.usaid.gov/our_work/cross-cutting_programs/wid/eg/gate_valuechain.html

Value chains and poverty reduction
http://www.researchintouse.com/nrk/RIUinfo/valuechain/valuechain.htm

Value chains and access to markets:
http://www.sdc-ruraldevelopment.ch/en/Home/Focus_areas/Other_A_RD_topics/Value_chains_and_access_to_markets

CIAT manual on smallholder chains
http://www.icra-edu.org/objects/anglolearn/Manual_3_Market_Chain_Competitiveness.pdf

I can see two approaches in maximising the involvement of poor people and/or women in value chains. One is to maximise the participation women and poor people (the target group) at each stage or function within a value chain. Thus enterprises owned individually or collectively by members of the target group would undertake a number of different functions such as input supply, production, service provision, marketing and processing. An example of such a value chain is the backyard poultry value chain in Bangladesh that has been supported by a number of programmes, including the recently completed IFAD-support Micro Finance and Technical Support Project. Further details on this value chain can be found at: http://www.ifad.org/english/operations/pi/bgd/documents/poultry.pdf.

In many situations it may not be realistic for the target group to take control of a number of different links in a value chain. Small-scale producers (or producer organisations) may not be able to compete in areas such as input supply, marketing and processing. In such a situation, efforts to expand the role of the target group into these other functions may not be sustained once direct project support ends. However value chain interventions can still improve the access to markets for the target group, and so increase their income. Interventions to enable the target group to improve their production to better meet market requirements (in terms of product type, quality, timeliness and volume) can increase the prices that they are paid. One way of doing this is to link producers with buyers, possibly at a later stage in the marketing chain than at which they currently sell (for example a producer group could sell to an urban wholesaler rather than as individuals in a rural assembly market. The result of such as intervention could be to increase the share of the final consumer price that accrues to the target group, and so improve their terms of trade.

I hope this is of some use.

Edward Mallorie

Posted on 2/23/12 2:45 PM.

Thanks Mr. Edward for sharing these excellent thoughts, examples and links.
Very useful Indeed.

Best regards,
Jagriti

Posted on 2/24/12 4:41 AM in reply to Edward Mallorie.

Dear Edward Mallorie,

I would like to thank you so much for your sharing.

Ngoc

Posted on 2/24/12 7:39 AM in reply to Edward Mallorie.

Dear All,

Thank you for your responses. This query was run on IFADAsia, APMAS Network email group, and APMAS Gender facebook page. Many responses were received, we have compiled the responses and prepared a summary of discussion. Please look into the resource section of this website for the summary of discussion, or visit to the following link address:

Thank you again for your responses.
Jagriti


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Posted on 3/2/12 6:59 AM in reply to NONG THI NGOC.