A4NH Gender-Nutrition Methods Workshop II

Bioversity International – Rome3 December 2014

Field team composition (each case study)

Methodology: 7 data collection activities

Originally developed and tested by the World Bank for its study On Norms and Agency (2013), now adapted for the CGIAR study…

• Comparative case study method• Standardization of key instruments

allowing broad patterns to be detected

Tool Respondents

Activity A. Literature review Principal investigator

Activity B. Community profile 1 or 2 male key informants

1 or 2 female key informants

Activity C. Focus group: Ladder of Life (with

poor adults)

1 FGD of 8 to 10 adult females, ages

30 to 55

1 FGD of 8 to 10 adult males, ages 30

to 55

Activity D. Focus group: Capacities for

innovation (with middle class adults)

1 FGD of 8 to 10 adult females, ages

25 to 55

1 FGD of 8 to 10 adult males, ages 25

to 55

Activity E. Focus group: Aspirations of

youth (with older adolescents and young

adults )

1 FGD of 8 to 12 female youth, ages

16 to 24

1 FGD of 8 to 12 male youth, ages 16

to 24

Activity F. Semi-structured interview:

Innovation pathways 2 male innovators

2 female innovators

Activity G. Semi-structured interview:

Individual Life Stories 2 males

2 females

Activity A. Literature review

Activity B. Community profile

C. FGD: Ladder of life (with poor adults)

poor socioeconomic group

poor socioeconomic group

D. FGD: Capacities for innovation (with middleclass adults)

middle socioeconomic group

middle socioeconomic group

E. FGD: Aspirations of youth

F. Individual: Innovation pathways

successful innovators

G. Individual: Life stories

Open ended questions (Morocco)

Vignettes (Nigeria)

Pre-coded questions (Uganda)Very rare (0 to 1 women in 10) ……………1Somewhat rare ( 2 women in 10)………...2Common (3 or 4 in 10) ………………………...3 Very common (Half or more) ……………….4

A young single woman 4

A young married woman 2

An older married woman 4

A widow 4

P8: The youth who are not yet married - these ladies do not exist in this village. 17 to 20 years the ladies leave the village they go to towns work as maids in people’s homes in Kampala and also work in marketsP9: The young and married they work and they work hand in hand with the husband. They are newly married and they want to be close to their husbands. Out of ten you find 2 working independently but the rest work with their husbands. Those ones 9 out of ten work tirelessly.

The widow 10 out of 10 They have to work to sustain their families they have no way out

They are involved in farming – and also provide casual labour on farms.

C.12 Now I’m interested in whether certain types of women are more likely to work for pay, whether the work is on or off family property. (The chart can be completed by consensus of the group.)

Pre-coded questions (Nigeria)

Visual techniques facilitate discussion of complex issues (Uganda)

How will the results be used?

•To reinforce the ongoing integration of gender research into CRPs

•To improve targeting and design of new technologies for impact on gender equity

•To recommend strategies for transformative interventions in scaling out agricultural innovations