Tips for Integrating Gender into USAID Agriculture Sector Solicitations

Publisher: USAID Knowledge-Driven Microenterprise Development Project (KDMD)
Author: Sandra L. Russo & Jillian Jensen
Type: Report
Date: October 2010
Keywords: gender, chain value, development, sex, agriculture, women;
Location in CRTDA: http://www.wocan.org/files/all/tips_gender_agriculture_solicitations_2010.pdf

Investing in agriculture is critical to development in terms of food security and helping economies grow. In most developing countries, women play a major role in agricultural activities, producing 60-80% of food, yet they have limited access to, and control of, productive resources such as land, labor, credit, and capital. Given this disparity in resources, it is essential that agricultural programs identify and then address gender differences and inequalities during program and project design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation. Development programming that integrates gender is more effective, responsive, and sustainable. Within the context of agriculture, this means addressing equity issues, such as women's access to resources, including land and water; access to financial services, extension, training, technologies, tools, and inputs, such as improved seeds; and access to markets, including information and business-development services. Tips for Integrating Gender into USAID Agriculture Sector Solicitations provides staff with a systematic way of ensuring gender issues are comprehensively addressed in the solicitation and during the technical evaluation process.

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