Gender and Participatory Innovation Development in ... - Prolinnova

The following criteria summarize the gendered goals/intentions of PROLINNOVA and the
corresponding criteria applied or actions undertaken.
Table 4. The gendered goals of PROLINNOVA and corresponding actions and criteria in FAIR
PROLINNOVA’s goals Corresponding action or criteria -/+
Gender workshops Not attended by CT members - 8
Equal participation at all levels Unofficial criteria, for FAIR2 to official distributional criteria +/- 9
Focus on women’s domains Various agricultural domains are covered + 10
Gender sensitive evaluation Gender responsiveness indicator +
Common gender vision/ mission Diverse ideas on gender/ no shared vision -
The signs of the table are explained in the footnote of this page
In sum, it is obvious that gender is highly considered among the implementers of FAIR, as their
respective organizations provided them with trainings on gender. However, in the FAIR program
gender criteria is relatively weak (mostly informal) at the moment. Above all, it is important to
foreshow that, as the actual implementation of FAIR/LISF was done by the CBOs and this process has
not been closely monitored by EA or other CT members, the way committees of CBOs interpreted (or
misinterpreted) the rather unofficial (but still strong) gender requirements and their “independent
gender approach” (might) have had perhaps the most significant impacts on the “gender fairness of
the implementation”. The procedure of selecting farmer innovators by CBOs and the implications of
vaguely monitored decentralized implementation will be explained in the relevant sub-Section 4.3.2.
8
- = the goal was not met due to the reason announced in second column
9
+/- = the goal was partly met
10
+ = the goal was met
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