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Strategies for promoting Gender and Social Inclusion (GESI) in the agribusiness sector in Zambia: experiences from the field

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Title Strategies for promoting Gender and Social Inclusion (GESI) in the agribusiness sector in Zambia: experiences from the field
 
Creator Greehy, P.
Enokenwa Baa, Ojongetakah
Nortje, Karen
 
Subject gender equality
social inclusion
strategies
frameworks
agribusiness
women farmers
youth
capacity development
training
women's empowerment
agricultural value chains
markets
policies
innovation
climate change
intervention
sustainability
partnerships
multi-stakeholder processes
smallholders
cotton
fruits
vegetables
livelihoods
case studies
 
Description Building on the Reclaim Sustainability! (RS!) programme’s baseline studies and the Gender and Social Inclusion (GESI) Reports, and in partnership with CGIAR Initiative on Diversification in East and Southern Africa (Ukama Ustawi) through International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Solidaridad facilitated commodity specific voice amplification dialogues in Zambia focused on cotton and fruits and vegetables farmers. These GESI engagements were designed to form the basis for future programs around voice amplification, gender and social inclusion across agri-business value chains, policy, advocacy, and innovation acceleration The commodity specific dialogues used a co-design approach in order to construct end-user archetypes of typical audiences for program engagement. Over a two week period between November and December 2022, Solidaridad’s commodity teams, supported by the Network’s Gender Expert, visited cotton and fruits and vegetable farmers across Zambia in the following districts: Lusaka, Chongwe, Mazabuka, Chibombo, Kabwe,Mumbwa, Choma , Magoyi, Nyimba , Petauke and Katete. In groups of not more than 15 per community, the team engaged in dialogue with women (60), youth (3) and men (30) farmers, commodity relevant key informants, individuals in influential spaces and interest groups across the Cotton and Fruits and Vegetables value chains. This included government officials, market players such as Freshmark (Shoprite), Good nature Agro, Agricultural input aggregators, industry union representatives, policy makers, district agricultural officers, and most importantly, women smallholder farmers.
 
Date 2023-12-06
2023-12-19T05:48:37Z
2023-12-19T05:48:37Z
 
Type Report
 
Identifier Greehy, P.; Enokenwa Baa, Ojongetakah; Nortje, Karen. 2023. Strategies for promoting Gender and Social Inclusion (GESI) in the agribusiness sector in Zambia: experiences from the field. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). CGIAR Initiative on Diversification in East and Southern Africa. 17p.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/135561
https://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/Publications/Other/PDF/Strategies_for_promoting_gender_and_social_Inclusion_(gesi)_in_the_agribusiness_sector_in_zambia-_experiences_from_the_field.pdf
H052419
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 17p.
application/pdf
 
Publisher International Water Management Institute (IWMI). CGIAR Initiative on Diversification in East and Southern Africa