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Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg, PhD, Director
Apollo Nkwake, PhD, Senior Manager, Monitoring and Evaluation
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Locating African Women in the Agricultural Landscape
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African Women Scientists Driving Agricultural Innovation
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African Women in Science Empowerment Model (AWSEM)
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Power From Within: Increasing inner strength, self confidence, and motivation to pursue a higher vision for herself
Power To Do: Increased capabilities and opportunities to accomplish and achieve professional autonomy
Power Over: Overcoming resource and power constraints to grow in influence
African Women in Science Empowerment Model (AWSEM)
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Power With: Initiating and leading collaborations to make contributions to agricultural science for the greater good
Power to Empower: Motivated champions inspiring others and promoting gender responsive agricultural research
The AWARD Fellowship
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2 year-long, non-residential fellowship
Advancing Science skills
Developing Leadership capacity
Fostering Mentoring relationships
Global Partnerships to Build Advanced Science Skills
Investing in Africa’s Leading Agricultural Scientists
Increasing African Women’s Visibility and Networking
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Mentoring
Fellow’s Mentee
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AWARD Mentor
AWARD Fellow
Mentoring
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Are Leaders Born or Made?
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Nurturing Confident, Powerful, Motivated Women
• Negotiation skills• Managing conflict• Time management
• Public speaking • Sustaining team performance• Building alliances
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Disciplinary Diversity
Agroforestry Agronomy Animal & LivestockEconomics
Aquatic & Fisheries Entomology
Engineering
Natural Resources
Virology
Biodiversity Crops Sciences Ecology
Extension Education Molecular BiologyHorticultureFood /Nutrition
Veterinary Sciences Water/Irrigation OtherSoil Sciences
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Our Current Reach
Fellowship program in 11 countries in sub-Saharan Africa
Pilot with fellows from 5 francophone countries
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Growing Demand for AWARD Fellowships
AWARD has debunked the myth that there are no African women agricultural researchers out there!
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Applications from 4,261 unique women in 500+ institutions
Exploring Opportunities for AWARD Phase III
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Sustainability of AWARD Outcomes
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‘Engineered’
‘Ecosystem’
ARD ecosystem trajectory without AWARD’s natural sustainability
ARD ecosystem trajectory with AWARD, but without engineered sustainability
Impact and capacity
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ARD ecosystem trajectory with engineered sustainability, but without other external
positive change
Opportunities for Increased Impact
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Vision
Mission
A robust, resilient, and gender responsive agricultural innovation system working to drive prosperity and food and nutrition security
for Africa
Investing in African women scientists and institutions to deliver innovative, sustainable, gender responsive Agricultural Research
Development
Capable, confident, and influential African
women scientists lead critical advances and innovations in African
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African women scientists and gender responsiveness and inclusivity become embedded in the
culture and practice of African ARD
African ARD institutions emerge as
gender responsive spaces that are
receptive to women’s leadership
Measuring Impact: The AWARD Difference
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Defining Empowerment
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Agency:
• What people are free and able to do and achieve in pursuit of their goals or values
• Emphasis on an individual’s assets and attributes
• An opportunity structure
Measuring empowerment
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Compelling Impact story gives more than one verifiable example of the change, and gives a clear indication that AWARD has contributed.
Convincing Impact story gives at least one verifiable example of change, indicating that AWARD has contributed.
Lackluster Impact story does not give clear, verifiable examples, and/or does not connect change to AWARD’s influence. It may appear to “parrot back” what was said in courses or elsewhere
Quotes from 2 impact stories
• “…In response to an advertisement on the AWARD website, I applied for a Netherlands fellowship program (NFP) in 2012 to do a short course in Agriculture in transition, and I won…”
• …The science attachment with NOVUS gave me a chance of having hands-on training and supervision by well known scientists… I assessed and quantified the mycotoxins contamination in samples from Ethiopian (animal) feeds…This will make an impact to improve (animal) feeds production”
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% of fellows demonstrating gain in powers
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Power ‘from Within’
Power to do
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Have consulted literature and experts on how to integrate gender in our research
Have proposed changes on how my team and others can intergrate gender
I have integrated gender dimensions across my research workHave engaged female farmers in planning my research work
My institution has actively created space for mentoring
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Gender Responsive Agricultural Research
Most helpful activities by levels: Power from within
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Leadership training
Mentoring Orientation Workshop
Scientific writingMentorship
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Most helpful activities by levels: Power to do
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Scientific writing
Research attachment
Leadership trainingConference
Mentoring Orientation Workshop
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Most helpful activities by levels: Power with
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Leadership training
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Mentoring Orientation Workshop
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Mentoring
Networking
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Most helpful activities by levels: Power over
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Factors associated with gaining expression of powers
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Leadership Courses
MOW/mentoring/PRM
Science/proposal writing
Personal factors
Work experience
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Next steps in measuring AWARD’s success
• Develop a theory of change that links fellow empowerment with organizational and eco system engagement
• Building on the work of other actors, use the rich empowerment narrative from fellows to construct a mixed methods measure of empowerment (AWSEM index)
• Used the AWSEM index to measure correlations between fellows’ participation and expression of gains in power
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THANK YOU
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Theory of change
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PreconditionFellows are empowered through AWARD
strategies
Precondition AWARD is well implemented using appropriate
strategies, a high quality, informed management team and adaptive management
PreconditionFellows, mentors, trainee trainers and
implementing partners are drawn from the best available
PreconditionMentors, trainee trainers and fellows’ mentees are informed, inspired and
inspiring
PreconditionTransformative changes are reflected and made visible in fellows’ work and life, and in
some of those they aim to influence
SPHERE OF CONTROL
SPHERE OF INFLUENCE
SPHERE OF INTEREST
PreconditionAWARD produces and effectively shares
relevant knowledge
PreconditionKey individual, organizational and sector actors respond appropriately to AWARD participants’
increasing visibility, influence and knowledge
Precondition Actors within and outside acknowledge and
use AWARD knowledge
Precondition A critical mass of women start to self-organize,
influence and lead
Precondition AWARD influence spreads beyond the program
VISION OF SUCCESS
Critical advances and innovations in agricultural development for Africa, led & influenced by capable, confident and influential African women
Fellow’s influence multiplies and ripples out
Career advancement and achievements
Scientific/technical
achievements and innovation
Visibility
POWER FROM WITHIN
Confidence
POWER TO DO
Leadership skills
Fellowship make-up and temperament/ Enabling environment– family, community, institutional, sector, national context
•Leadership courses
• MOWs
• Science/ proposal writing
• Mentoring• Conferences
•Science/ proposal writing
•Research attachments
•Leadership courses
• Conferences
• MOWs• Short
courses
Transformative moments
Boundary spanning collective
action
POWER WITH
Drivers for program design
Input
BMGF and other funding
Strategic section process
Top talent among
women scientists
AWARD team
management
Quality implementati
on
Institutional support
(laptop, internet access)
POWER OVER
POWER TO EMPOWER
Sharing and inspiring gender- responsive
knowledge and approaches
Motivation Science
skills
Vision/ direction
Access
Self-knowledge
• AWARD information
• Special events• Opportunities to apply and
practice(conferences, associations and networking, role modeling, mentoring)
•Opportunities to apply and practice(conferences, associations
andnetworking, role modeling, mentoring)
•Research attachments
• Short courses
• eResources
• Short courses
Expression of gains in power (compelling/convincing impact stories)
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