The overall aim of this project is to reduce gender inequalities in the face of evolving governance, economic and environmental changes by generating new knowledge applicable for development practice and building capacity of relevant stakeholders and actors.

Process/Methodology/Activities

• The projects vision of success was to develop analytical and conceptual tools that can be adapted and applied in different contexts to
• Understand the intricate linkages between poverty, gender and agriculture, and
• Generate operating principles and strategies for interventions and investments at scale. During the inception phase, they applied the theory of change method to outline specific activities and strategies, however two key strategies are central to the project.

Objectives

• Knowledge dissemination easy to grasp tools and methods to communicate complex gender-poverty intersections at multiple levels with multiple actors, and
• Capacity development influence innovative design, pilot and review of gender-aware approaches in services, inputs and product markets.

Recommendations:



The State Government is recommended to:  

• Adjust criteria for classification of classes of farmers. If they really want to reach the poorest they should change their definitions of marginal and small farmers. To change from one hectare to one bight will highly enhance their capacity to reach out to the real target group in need of support. 
• Improve their procedures and implementation for classification of BPL and APL households.
• Implement projects by the regular line departments including gender components