Gender Roles

1. Group 2 B
Case 2: Adoption of Modern
Corn Farming Technology by
Men and Women in
Pinagtagbo

2. 4. Project’s Benefits
Benefits to Men Benefits to Women
Access to Training Access to Training
Increased in yields and sales Increased in yields and sales
Increased standard of living and purchasing power
(clothing, food and health care)
Increased standard of living and purchasing power
(clothing, food and health care)
Purchase some household gadgets, appliances and
house repairs
Limited access to financial services/credits
Can access affordable and bigger loans from banks Access to limited farm lots
Full adoption of the technology Diversified crops benefitted from farm inputs
Men can hire additional farm workers Limited hiring of additional farm workers
Men owned bigger plots
Can avail more farm extension services and trainings

3. 5. Gender Issue
Organizational Gender Issues Strategies or activities to address
gender issues
The project is not gender sensitive - Conduct Social Preparation and
other preparatory activities
- They should have a GAD Training
- Conduct Gender Analysis of their
project
- Project Design should have GAD
attribution.
- Include more gender responsive
innovations to corn farming.
- Capacity on gender responsive
M&E.
-Lack of firm-level consultation involving men and
women during the project identification

4. Client Gender Issues Strategies or activities to address the
issues
Less participation of women in the association and lack
women leadership
Only 2 out of 7 officers are women
Only One-fifth of the total members are women
1. Conduct social preparedness and GAD
2. Conduct Gender Sensitivity Training for the Corn
Farmers/Association
3. Engage the wife of the men farmers to join the
training
4. Women empowerment and awareness
Women – had limited access to credit and can only avail
small loans
- Facilitation of project implementors to tailor fit
the needs of each gender needs to other financial
institutions.
Women only used traditional hand hoeing method -Conduct technology training that can tailor the
capability of women.
Women performed most of the childcare and
chores (multiple burdens to women)
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- Childcare facility near both men and women
workplaces
Women use some fertilizer provided to other crops - Intensify Monitoring and Evaluation process
Women received lower wages than men -Intensify the standard labor rates

5. Thank you!!