2. Program Vision
To achieve transformational impact on
agricultural development that increases the
number of men and women sustainably
and profitably linked to markets with the
end objective of increasing income and
food security for rural Malians.
3. Program Context
• 3-year follow-on to a “2year-3year” program
• Value chain approach: Cereals, High-value
horticulture, and mango
• Cross-cutting components
– Improved natural resource management, biodiversity
conservation and climate change adaptation
– Fisheries
– Transport
• Work via local NGOs and institutions, and
directly with businesses
• New technologies and scaling up: Malian Rural
Economy Institute, several universities
5. At outset:
Where can we build on
traditional roles to ensure
women’s participation in
agricultural development?
Processing, commercialization,
some production
Shallot production and
processing in the north
Rice production in the south
6. Evolved into:
1) Where can we expand
women’s roles in significant
agricultural development?
Potato in north and south
Diversifying to other more
high-value hort crops
2) How can we resolve some
issues we are
encountering?
Inadequate literacy/ numeracy
to maintain business records
and track expenses, sales,
and profit
Plus a traditional men’s role in
lucrative business affairs.
7. Now:
How can we more systematically
plan, implement, and monitor
activities in each sector to
ensure gender-equitable
opportunity and prevent or
respond to gender-related
imbalances?
8. M&E and impact evaluation
• PMP: standard USAID approach
• 35 performance indicators
• 16 disaggregated by gender
• Number and value of special funds loans issued
• Number of people with increased adaptive capacity to
cope with aspects of climate variability and change
• All training-related indicators
9. M&E and impact evaluation (cont’d)
10 establish separate targets for men & women
Volume and value of purchases from smallholder farmers
Lowland Rice/Sikasso
Target: 825 tons $248,000
Actual: 1,278 tons $442,000
Number of participants in trade and investment trainings
Target: 200 (70 females, 130 males)
Actual: 384 (88 females, 296 males)
10. M&E and impact evaluation (cont’d)
• Baselines from past project years
• Challenges:
– HH level data on assets, decision-making, etc.
– Once removed, need to shore up and push out.
11. Potential Gender Impact
Desired
• Increased income of rural men and women
• Increased food security for their communities
• Increased bargaining and decision-making power amongst women
• Increased/evolving access to land for women
• Increased involvement of men and women in managing the
community natural resource base
Undesired
• Replicating or magnifying existing imbalances with scaling up?
• With increased bargaining power, new/increased disputes?
