Gender & Market Analysis Initiative in West Africa Case study Ghana CO ENVAC project

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1 Gender & Market Analysis Initiative in West Africa Case study Ghana CO ENVAC project Empowering West African Women through Market-based Food Assistance 15/06/2016

2 Process I. Planning meeting with key staff (HoP, P4P, CBT, Evaluations) II. Technical meetings with: CO Gender Results Network member on gender activities; and sub-office VAM team member on 2016 EFSA usage of adjusted WEAI questions in market assessment III.Interviews with key informants (USAID, University of Ghana, Ministry for Women, Children, Ministry for Women in Agriculture, Ministry Statistical... IV.Working group meeting with key staff to discuss and finalize tool V. Information and results sharing with participants Caption Mauritania, Kaedi (Gorgol region), 18 May 2015 A girl holds a bucket on her head at the sunset on the banks of Senegal river on the border between Senegal and Mauritania in Kaedi, Mauritania. Photo: WFP/Agron Dragaj Photo: WFP/Agron Dragaj

3 Key findings Key challenges for female actors in value chains: Lack of productive capital; limited access to credit and financial services due to limited capital; and social and knowledge-based constraints which limit female usage of productive technologies. Different gender roles and levels of empowerment along value chain (e.g. producers vs wholesalers and small-scale vendors vs. market queens) High interest among government partners to engage in gender analysis and assessing empowerment, but limited capacity to do so (high capacity for qualitative analysis at some levels, but lack of standardized approach) Chad, Farchana, 8 December 2015 The Farchana refugee camp hosts over 26,000 refugees from Darfur, Sudan. In the Photo: 43 year-old refugee Hawaya Yahya Ismail, who lives with her husband and 8 children, receiving rations for her family and walking back home, to prepare the sorghum for grounding and a meal for her children. The food rations represent less than 40 percent of the recommended daily intake. Reduction of rations started in 2013, due to insufficient funding. Photo: WFP/Alexis Masciarelli

4 Gender & Market Analysis Initiative in West Africa: Key output Gender Analytical Framework for Value Chain Analysis in Ghana (Key informant interviews, focus group discussions, and questionnaire questions on gender analysis and empowerment in value chains) Caption Mauritania, Kaedi (Gorgol region), 18 May 2015 A girl holds a bucket on her head at the sunset on the banks of Senegal river on the border between Senegal and Mauritania in Kaedi, Mauritania. Photo: WFP/Agron Dragaj Photo: WFP/Agron Dragaj

5 What about WEAI? Consultation with USAID counterparts in Ghana who are using and adapting PRO-WEAI tools Tool builds on WEAI-adapted questions developed for Lake Chad Regional Market Assessment Used as guidance for identified indicators and question format, rather than index Developed framework is meant to support baseline study, BUT adapted indicators and questions are intended to support monitoring and evaluations as well Chad, Malanga village, 3 December 2015 Two farmers (Ibrahim Ahmat Abakar, in the red head scarf; Abdelkader Yunus in the back head scarf) planting

6 Indicators/Dimensions Decision-making on value chain activities Access to and decision-making power over productive resources Skills/capacity Control over use of income Leadership in markets Time use Mobility Institutions Self and gender perceptions Value chain 7/15/2016 6

7 Implication of developed framework: Fighting Hunger Worldwide Planning meeting on ENVAC with partners, including those involved in case study process, to finalize tool and other assessment materials and project design Baseline assessment, including tool, to be held end-2016 to inform final ENVAC project design Framework has been shared with government counterparts and national research centers Framework will allow ENVAC, as the follower of P4P in Ghana, to continue commitment to women s empowerment principles and to promoting gender equality through direct action, particularly in the linkage between value chains and consumption to enhance nutrition programming Chad, Moussoro, 18 December 2015 The weekly market in Moussoro, Barh el Gazel region, is a very large market, where traders come as far as the capital N Djamena. 7/15/2016 It is also an important market for a region where most people are pastoralists with millet being the main crop, and very few vegetable growing due to 7 the arid climate. Photo: WFP/Alexis Masciarelli

8 Thank you 7/15/2016 8