Gender
Gender is a crosscutting issue in the IPMS project. Understanding of the gender context in each Pilot Learning Woredas and identifying opportunities for supporting gender equality through market led agricultural development initiatives is a central issue to the overall success of project implementation to ensure sustainability of positive development impacts. To this end, a gender strategy was designed in November 2004 to provide direction to the gender mainstreaming process across all project interventions.
The following are the major areas of engagement to mainstream gender in the market led agricultural development:
1. Understanding gender issues in priority crops and enterprises
2. Awareness raising on gender issues
3. Gender empowerment through IPMS activities
4. Operational measures for gender mainstreaming
| File |
Size in KB |
Format |
|
|
498
|
 |
|
