Integrated Initiatives for

Economic Growth in Mali

(IICEM)

POTENTIAL GENDER IMPACTS AND

MONITORING & EVALUATION

Program Vision

To achieve transformational impact on

agricultural development that increases the

number of men and women sustainably

and profitably linked to markets with the

end objective of increasing income and

food security for rural Malians.

Program Context

• 3-year follow-on to a “2year-3year” program

• Value chain approach: Cereals, High-value

horticulture, and mango

• Cross-cutting components– Improved natural resource management, biodiversity

conservation and climate change adaptation

– Fisheries

– Transport

• Work via local NGOs and institutions, and

directly with businesses

• New technologies and scaling up: Malian Rural

Economy Institute, several universities

IICEM’s “Gender Evolution”

At outset:

Where can we build on

traditional roles to ensure

women’s participation in

agricultural development?

Processing, commercialization,

some production

Shallot production and

processing in the north

Rice production in the south

Evolved into:

1) Where can we expand

women’s roles in significant

agricultural development?

Potato in north and south

Diversifying to other more

high-value hort crops

2) How can we resolve some

issues we are

encountering?

Inadequate literacy/ numeracy

to maintain business records

and track expenses, sales,

and profit

Plus a traditional men’s role in

lucrative business affairs.

Now:

How can we more systematically

plan, implement, and monitor

activities in each sector to

ensure gender-equitable

opportunity and prevent or

respond to gender-related

imbalances?

M&E and impact evaluation

• PMP: standard USAID approach

• 35 performance indicators

• 16 disaggregated by gender• Number and value of special funds loans issued

• Number of people with increased adaptive capacity to

cope with aspects of climate variability and change

• All training-related indicators

M&E and impact evaluation (cont’d)

10 establish separate targets for men & womenVolume and value of purchases from smallholder farmers

Lowland Rice/Sikasso

Target: 825 tons $248,000

Actual: 1,278 tons $442,000

Number of participants in trade and investment trainings

Target: 200 (70 females, 130 males)

Actual: 384 (88 females, 296 males)

M&E and impact evaluation (cont’d)

• Baselines from past project years

• Challenges: – HH level data on assets, decision-making, etc.

– Once removed, need to shore up and push out.

Potential Gender Impact

Desired

• Increased income of rural men and women

• Increased food security for their communities

• Increased bargaining and decision-making power amongst women

• Increased/evolving access to land for women

• Increased involvement of men and women in managing the

community natural resource base

Undesired

• Replicating or magnifying existing imbalances with scaling up?

• With increased bargaining power, new/increased disputes?

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