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Women Accessing Realigned Markets (WARM) Project Strengthening the Capacity of Women Farmers to Influence Agricultural Policy Development in Southern Africa Thembi Ndema www.fanrpan.org [email protected] [email protected] What is “Women Accessing Realigned Markets (WARM) Project” www.fanrpan.org [email protected] Purpose of Project • To increase women farmers’ access to appropriate agricultural inputs by empowering them – to express their needs – to generate evidence that is used to align policy research agendas and service institutions to meet women farmers’ needs. www.fanrpan.org [email protected] Project Objectives • To provide a platform for communities to dialogue on issues that affect women farmers’ access to input markets • Empower women farmers to play a more active role in driving the development agenda • To align development research agenda to women farmers’ issues • Align input supply institutions and programs to women farmer needs • To bring women farmer concerns into national and regional policy debates www.fanrpan.org [email protected] Why focus on women • Women in Sub- Sahara African countries constitute 70% of the agricultural workers • Women provide 60-80% of the labor to produce food for household consumption and sale. • Women also responsible for: • • • • 100% of the processing of basic foodstuffs 80% of food storage and transport from field to village 90% of the hoeing and weeding work 60% of the harvesting and marketing activities (FAO Women and Population Division, 2007). www.fanrpan.org [email protected] WARM Project Interventions • Access to services; credit, research • Agricultural extension – information and knowledge • Access to appropriate technology • Access to input and output markets • Participation in policy processes www.fanrpan.org [email protected] Project Outcomes Local Level • Women farmers and their communities have a better understanding of how input markets can better serve them • Knowledge and ideas to be incorporated into local development plans • Women farmers have better access to input and output markets and appropriate support • Agricultural productivity and livelihoods improve • Community theater platform continues to serve as a mechanism for aligning service institutions to community needs. www.fanrpan.org [email protected] Project Outcomes National Level • Key research institutions, media, policy makers and farmer groups become more sensitive to the specific needs of women farmers • Women’s concerns incorporated into the research and policy agendas. • Women farmers’ participation in leadership positions and policy discussions solicited. www.fanrpan.org [email protected] Project Outcomes Regional Level • The WARM project outputs inform continent-wide plans and investments such as CAADP, organisations and programmes • WARM fosters public / private partnerships and policy harmonization for improving regional procurement and distribution of inputs www.fanrpan.org [email protected] Project Design and Implementation www.fanrpan.org [email protected] Project Design and Implementation Plan Rural Women Farmers Message Policy Change through Theatre for Policy Advocacy Researchers and Policy Analysts Evidence Non-governmental Organisations Development Support www.fanrpan.org [email protected] Theatre for Policy Action • Song, dance, narrative and ceremonial rituals - a part of African tradition and defines a community’s identity • A powerful medium for communicating ideas by leveling the field, breaking barriers and addressing topics that are deemed taboo • TPA can stimulate both dialogue and action - a theatrical performance is a major social event in rural Africa • The holistic enactment of the community's responses to the challenges of daily existence and development • Developed and refined by various development agents, researchers, social scientists and theatre specialists • Works through community based processes www.fanrpan.org [email protected] Theatre for Policy Action PROCESS 1 2 Community entry and mobilization Engagement of key community stakeholders and development experts 3 Building local capacity to communicate key messages through theatre 4 Packaging key policy messages 5 Community dialogue platform 6 Identification of champions for community issues 7 Community Voice www.fanrpan.org [email protected] Proposed Partners • National Policy-Makers • Development NGOs • Research Institutions • Farmer Organizations Local Level: • Small scale women farmers; National farmer unions; Local theatre groups; University; Existing rural development programs ( e.g. AGRA, BMG Foundation Grantees such as Ashoka, CLUSA, AWAL-Net) www.fanrpan.org [email protected]