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QUALITATIVE MAPPINGThrough collecting sex-disaggregated data, men’s and women’s overall participation in the value chain is better understood.The data help to measure various areas of sex segmentation. In the case of the Twanya EAST project, project staff learned thatthere is labor market, wage, and ownership segmentation along the passion fruit chain. The quantitative data alone, however,do not explain the current gender roles and relations nor how they might impede value chain efficiency, program objectives,or women’s empowerment. Qualitative data are required to understand the factors that produce particular outcomes for menand women. It also clarifies how current gender roles and relations affect and are affected by value chain operations.Step 1. Identify gender roles and relationsQualitative information about gender roles, responsibilities, and relationships are found in a range of materials, fromacademic studies, in-depth surveys, project reports, and people with their own sometimes accurate and sometimesinaccurate ideas about appropriate behaviors for men and women. It can be difficult to know what to do with thewealth of information available. The Gender Dimensions Framework is a tool to organize the data about gender.In the Phase One Worksheet, “Organizing Gender-Related Information,” the information presented in the case study narrativeis organized according to each of the dimension categories. It is the first step in understanding gender relations in countriesor communities where the project will be implemented or where it already works to understand how those relations influencemen’s and women’s participation in operating existing value chains or that need to be addressed before organizing newones. After organizing the data given in the narrative, the worksheet provides space to raise questions about the implicationsof the data given. Is additional data needed on any point? Are there points on which the data presented disagree? Thequestions raised in the last column of Phase One Worksheet can be included later during interviews with actors along thevalue chain or by seeking additional background data from government sources or other published materials.PHASE ONE WORKSHEET: ORGANIZING GENDER-RELATED INFORMATION FROM INTERVIEWSDIMENSION INFORMATION ABOUT WOMEN INFORMATION ABOUT MEN QUESTIONSPRACTICESANDPARTICIPATION✪✪ On the farm, women performlabor-intensive tasks, such asplanting, transplanting, weeding, andharvesting vegetables and fruits.✪✪ Women and girls do most of thehousehold work (e.g., child care,food preparation, cleaning).✪✪ Power differentials:Women do a disproportional amountof household work.Young women are not permitted towork outside of their homes at night.✪✪ On the farm, men typically providelabor for field preparation.✪✪ Men are more commonly elected asproducer association leaders.✪✪ Men own the vast majority of exportfirms.✪✪ Men handle crop sales.79