Transcript Women Accessing Realigned Markets (WARM) Project

Women Accessing Realigned
Markets (WARM) Project
Strengthening the Capacity of Women Farmers to Influence
Agricultural Policy Development in Southern Africa
Thembi Ndema
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What is “Women Accessing
Realigned Markets (WARM)
Project”
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Purpose of Project
• To increase women farmers’ access to
appropriate agricultural inputs by
empowering them – to express their needs
– to generate evidence that is used to align
policy research agendas and service
institutions to meet women farmers’ needs.
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Project Objectives
• To provide a platform for communities to dialogue on
issues that affect women farmers’ access to input
markets
• Empower women farmers to play a more active role in
driving the development agenda
• To align development research agenda to women
farmers’ issues
• Align input supply institutions and programs to
women farmer needs
• To bring women farmer concerns into national and
regional policy debates
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Why focus on women
• Women in Sub- Sahara African countries
constitute 70% of the agricultural workers
• Women provide 60-80% of the labor to
produce food for household consumption
and sale.
• Women also responsible for:
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100% of the processing of basic foodstuffs
80% of food storage and transport from field to village
90% of the hoeing and weeding work
60% of the harvesting and marketing activities
(FAO Women and Population Division, 2007).
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WARM Project Interventions
• Access to services; credit,
research
• Agricultural extension –
information and knowledge
• Access to appropriate technology
• Access to input and output
markets
• Participation in policy processes
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Project Outcomes
Local Level
• Women farmers and their communities have a better
understanding of how input markets can better serve them
• Knowledge and ideas to be incorporated into local development
plans
• Women farmers have better access to input and output markets
and appropriate support
• Agricultural productivity and livelihoods improve
• Community theater platform continues to serve as a mechanism
for aligning service institutions to community needs.
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Project Outcomes
National Level
• Key research institutions, media, policy makers
and farmer groups become more sensitive to the
specific needs of women farmers
• Women’s concerns incorporated into the research
and policy agendas.
• Women farmers’ participation in leadership
positions and policy discussions solicited.
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Project Outcomes
Regional Level
• The WARM project outputs inform continent-wide
plans and investments such as CAADP,
organisations and programmes
• WARM fosters public / private partnerships and
policy harmonization for improving regional
procurement and distribution of inputs
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Project Design and
Implementation
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Project Design and Implementation Plan
Rural Women
Farmers
Message
Policy Change
through
Theatre for
Policy Advocacy
Researchers
and Policy
Analysts
Evidence
Non-governmental
Organisations
Development Support
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Theatre for Policy Action
• Song, dance, narrative and ceremonial rituals - a part of African tradition
and defines a community’s identity
• A powerful medium for communicating ideas by leveling the field, breaking
barriers and addressing topics that are deemed taboo
• TPA can stimulate both dialogue and action - a theatrical performance is a
major social event in rural Africa
• The holistic enactment of the community's responses to the challenges of
daily existence and development
• Developed and refined by various development agents, researchers, social
scientists and theatre specialists
• Works through community based processes
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Theatre for Policy Action
PROCESS
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Community entry and mobilization
Engagement of key community
stakeholders and development experts
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Building local capacity to communicate
key messages through theatre
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Packaging key policy messages
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Community dialogue platform
6
Identification of champions
for community issues
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Community Voice
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Proposed Partners
• National Policy-Makers
• Development NGOs
• Research Institutions
• Farmer Organizations
Local Level:
• Small scale women farmers; National farmer unions; Local
theatre groups; University; Existing rural development
programs ( e.g. AGRA, BMG Foundation Grantees such as
Ashoka, CLUSA, AWAL-Net)
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