6 CON CLU SION
Women and youth
involved in Promo Fruits’
supply chain – Pineapple
Partnership, Benin.
Since its inception in 2012, 2SCALE has made significant
progress in getting the whole program team to mainstream
gender in their activities, as highlighted by the examples
in Chapter 4. However, there are still gaps and possible
improvements to be made. These include the need for more
systematic and detailed reporting on achievements and
challenges regarding the integration of women into the
clusters and value chains to draw additional lessons and
improve further. A user-friendly toolkit for field staff and
partners is also needed; at the end of 2016, 2SCALE initiated
the development of such a toolkit to be used in most of its
partnerships; the toolkit will be reusable, adapted to an
illiterate audience, and fun to use.
Based on experience with private partners, 2SCALE
also aims to make gender- and youth-related targets a
non-negotiable condition for program support at the
onset, not implicit/secondary or negotiated. Targeting
smallholder farmers and SMEs is not enough; there must
be an ambitious and explicit target for women and youth
integration in every partnership. Moreover, building on
the gender approach and tools, 2SCALE intends to develop
similar methodology and materials for youth (female and
male), aligned with the specificities of young farmers and
rural entrepreneurs.
Last, as any program has staff turnover, training and
coaching of the field team must be continuous; therefore,
2SCALE will further invest resources in such, providing all
field staff with a work environment conducive to gender
mainstreaming and youth integration and the incentive to
go the extra mile in their daily technical work in terms of
inclusion of rural people otherwise marginal or excluded
from agricultural value chains.
7 LI ST OF TOOL S
The following tools were used throughout the coaching
process and constantly adapted to meet both 2SCALE staff
needs and the particular context. The initial version of
these tools can be found in AgriProFocus’s Gender in Value
Chains – Practical Toolkit to Integrate a Gender Perspective in
Agricultural Value Chain Development: http://agriprofocus.
com/toolkit.
• Tool 3.2a: Making a gender-sensitive value chain map.
• Tool 3.2b: Making visible who contributes how to the
quality of the product.
• Tool 3.3a: Activity mapping and the identification
of gender-based constraints (and design of possible
actions to address these).
• Tool 3.3b: Formulating gender-based
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constraints and assessing the consequences of gender-
based constraints.
• Tool 4.4a: Analyzing services from a gender
perspective.
Useful explanations of these tools can also be found in
the e-learning modules developed by AgriProFocus:
http://agriprofocus.com/introduction-to-gender-in-agri.
Design in process: The Gender and Youth Toolkit is an
adaptation of these tools. It will feature illustrations of
the crop calendar with the activity profiles per gender,
the access and control to resources and services grid, and
a table to reflect who benefits from these activities. The
primary users will be field facilitators (coaches) through
separate gender and age focus groups.