1. Introduction to Women’s Collective Action in Tanzania WCA Project Team Meeting, Bamako, 7 th April 2011
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18. Value chain gender focal areas Value chain Market chain Services Environment Local chicken Women producers Collection centres Traders Inputs: feeds Regional markets Functional literacy Business development: market information systems; business management skills SACCOS Vaccination Gender roles and behaviour: livestock ownership and benefits Trade policies and licenses Rice Women producer groups Rice schemes Processors : millers and traders Domestic and export markets Inputs: fertilisers, irrigation Functional literacy Business development: market information systems; business management skills SACCOS Post harvest quality Gender roles and behaviour Warehouse receipt systems Public expenditure tracking Multi-stakeholder platforms Sisal Nursery operators Women producers Processors: raspadoras, brushing machine, rope making Domestic market Functional literacy Business development: market information systems; business management skills Production: extension services through district and NGOs Gender roles and behaviour: labour and benefits; intra-household benefits; intra-household financial management Public expenditure tracking Trade rules: Multi-stakeholder platforms, by-laws; codes of business conduct
19. Value chain focal areas Value chain Market chain Services Environment Vegetable Input dealers Women producers Collection centres Traders Transport DSM and local markets Functional literacy Business development SACCOS Extension Gender roles and behaviour Access to irrigation Pastoralist livestock Women pastoralists Goat collection centres Cooperative factories Supermarkets Collective cattle marketing Functional literacy Business development Vaccination Gender roles and behaviour : livestock ownership and benefits Land and property rights Natural resources
Visibility of value chain creates motivation for women. Capacity building for women, adult literacy Input services: NCD vaccines by VIC . Little private sector presence. Environment: advocacy and campaigning to influence institutions such as gender roles, violence against women, patriarchal land inheritance
