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THE INTERFACE

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We work on WEL because...

It raises the standard of living for the whole

community?

It improves agricultural production and incomes?

It promotes gender equity?

It is an Oxfam organisational priority?

All of the above?

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WHO’S WHO IN TODAY’S WEBINAR

Dominic Ramirez

Kimberly Bowerman Paul Joicey Lyca Sarenas

Jocelyn VillanuevaNonthathom Chaipet

• Welcome and Introduction

• Presentation of Findings – WEL in Asia

Review

• Reaction from Sri Lanka and Philippines

• Comments and Questions

• Next Steps

Agenda for today

WEL in Asia ReviewValidation Session

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Transformative Change and WEL in Asia

Asia Vision:Transform power relations

by focusing on women’s rights

and working with strategic

partners to overcome poverty

and inequality across Asia

Thematic Area:

Enable women in poorest and marginalised communities to

realise their rights and claim an equitable share of growth

through developing their capacity for political and

economic leadership

GENDER JUSTICE

PIE

Holistic vision of women’s

leadership and participation: inter-

related and indivisible

WEL IN ASIA REVIEW:

SUMMARY SLIDESFOR CONSULTATION WITH WEL COP

Kimberly Bowman February 2014

BACKGROUND, PURPOSE AND HOW

TO GET INVOLVED

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Purpose of the review

• Understand more about how WEL has been implemented

across the region, and to inform future WEL work.

• Take stock of what we have achieved so far, bring out key

learning from countries and draw lessons and

recommendations to move forward with high quality

programming and effective learning.

Feeding a conversation at the Regional Leadership Team in

March.

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Sources of data / information

Bangladesh

(Chilli,

REECALL)

Pakistan

PKNB91

Sri Lanka:

EU-ACAP

and Coir

Philippines:

OMP and

links.

VA

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: RE

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NA

L A

DV

ISE

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Skype Interviews with CoP members (3) and advisors

(2)

Country visits –

interviews,

observation

and document

review.

Document

review –

evaluations,

planning, OPAL

documents.

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Documents Available for Download

12 Feb

Webinar Presentation

and Discussion

Feb 27

Amendments made before

RLT workshop

March 7

Feedback and additional documents accepted by

email; skype.

Review Process

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HOW TO FEED BACK

• Download the full report or one of the summaries from: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/xt8zrrf2fg6zly7/L6Yf3GeKyb

• Attend the online session on February 27.

• Email your comments to kbowman@oxfam.org.uk by

end of day 27 February – either as track changes or in a

separate doc (if latter, no more than 800 words please.)

FIRST, THE FRAMEWORK

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THE STARTING POINT:

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WEL Quality Checks:

WOMEN AS LEADERS

WOMEN EQUAL BENEFIT

WOMEN’S EQUAL

PARTICIPATION

APPROPRIATE FOR WOMEN

Design

considerations

Intermediate

outcomesWEL Outcomes

Guiding principles

•Smallholder

agriculture beyond

production.

•Women as active

agents.

•Women as powerful

actors and leaders.

•Equal relations

between women and

men.

Design steps

• Gendered market

selection

• Gendered market

mapping

• Linking HH

analysis with market

analysis.

• Stakeholder

analysis.

• Identify

opportunities for

WEL.

• Develop strategies.

More standard market-

focussed livelihoods

outcomes – for example:

INCREASED PRODUCTION

INCREASED SALES

ADOPTION OF NEW

PRACTICES

RESILIENCE, RISK

REDUCTION

ACCESS TO CREDIT

BETTER MARGINS ON

PRODUCTS

INT

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VE

NT

ION

S

UNPLANNED EFFECTS ON

OTHER WOMEN

PROPOSAL: REVISED FRAMEWORK

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LIVELIHOODS

OUTCOMESGENDER QUALITY

CHECKS

WEL OUTCOMES

Standard outcomes for a

gendered market-focussed

livelihood project (depends

on context and intervention):

For example:

INCREASED PRODUCTION

INCREASED SALES

ADOPTION OF NEW

PRACTICES

RESILIENCE, RISK REDUCTION

ACCESS TO CREDIT

ACCESS TO GOV’T SERVICES

BETTER MARGINS ON

PRODUCTS

WEL Quality Checks:

WOMEN AS LEADERS

WOMEN EQUAL BENEFIT

WOMEN’S EQUAL

PARTICIPATION

APPROPRIATE FOR WOMEN

These are key questions that

affect design and project

monitoring, focussed on

ensuring that the project is

delivering for women

Focusing on questions of

suitability (is this right for

women?), women’s

participation, leadership and

benefit.

Going beyond a set of standard

gendered economic indicators,

the project looks at barriers to

and opportunities for greater

empowerment (broadly defined)

atHH, community, enterprise and

broader levels. It also looks at

changes in the broader

environment .

These vary by project.

These are more standard

livelihood project outcomes,

focussed on primarily on

economic factors.

They are different for each

intervention, and come out of

the project’s logic (or ‘theory of

change.’)

EFFECTS ON OTHER WOMEN

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POWER, VOICE AND

DECISION-MAKING

Women’s

Economic

Leadership

IN THE MARKET

IN THE COMMUNITY

IN THE FAMILY

IN THE BUSINESS

IN THE SELF

WEL Guiding

Principles

Core WEL

Outcomes.

Enabling and

restricting

outcomes. (About

the environment.)

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Key Changes:

• Some slight changes in wording or reorganization of

outcomes (also, adding ‘women’s capabilities’)– also adding

definitions and examples.

• Breaking concepts apart into guiding principles, core

outcomes and enabling outcomes.

• Explicitly recognizing economic outcomes as intermediate –

and with WEL ‘quality checks.’

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To see definitions...

Access the full report or the 5-page summary of the conceptual

framework, from here:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/xt8zrrf2fg6zly7/L6Yf3GeKyb

RESULTS

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Sri Lanka

• 2 very different projects: in scale, challenges, target groups.

Particularly notable

• In East/North: emblematic of a WEL project at a fairly large

scale? Example – interventions: producer groups + SARCs,

buy-back agreements and support for links to markets,

assistance with production, sustainable production methods,

links to government, bit of infrastructure for advocacy, VAW

referrals.

• Different examples of how WEL linked with government at a

practical/implementation level: from a multi-stakeholder

committee (South) to links to extension training (North) to

work with land registration services (East).

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Philippines

• A number of different projects in different sites and very

different target groups, including some enterprises at greater

degrees of maturity, and with a focus on CCA/resilience.

Particularly notable:

• Degree of co-learning with partners on new or complex

issues: how is this going to work?

• Deliberate integration with national-level advocacy

programme (though they’ll tell you this can be better.)

• Strongly gendered in how people talk about programming –

WEL is not an add-on.

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Describing how we ‘do’ WEL

• Target audiences. May be only women or women and men.

Sometimes prioritize widows and FHH (but not always clear in

documentation why, or if they have different needs...)

• Strategies. Many, differing according to context, need and

project design. But always a mix of:

• Interventions focused on economic changes

• Complimentary interventions aimed at WEL outcomes (house-hold

decision making, VAW, etc.)

• Standards. No consistent ‘blueprint’ model, nor benchmarks

on things like income levels or level of confidence in women.

Diversity of programming makes that very hard. But: suggest

that true WEL programming works across the framework.

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Challenges and Lessons Learned

• Economic and production. Challenges to quantity or

sustained production; to gaining access to markets; to

delivering a good return.

• Working with very disadvantaged women. Raising their

abilities to participate (either changing attitudes so they can

participate, or raising their capabilities so they can engage as

confident actors) takes time. They are risk-averse.

• Partners. Challenges to getting ‘on the same page’ with how

we understand gender and MEL. A consistent challenge

addressed through:

• Oxfam taking a ‘gender quality assurance’ role

• Co-learning with and among partners

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Challenges and Lessons Learned (2)

• Local government actors. Implementation challenges –

policies ‘on the books’ but not enforced at local level.

Capacity issues – not doing extension, finance, gendered

budgeting.

• How do we address this at large scale?

• Involving and informing men. Really important for buy-in

and even championning.

• At minimum, projects should communicate with men and families.

• Often, projects can include men in activities to gain support.

• Women’s mobility.

• Projects designed near to homes.

• Women travelling together.

• Involving men.

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Challenges and Lessons Learned (3)

• Deeply conservative cultural practices.

• Taking it one step at a time.

• Engaging partners to suggest alternative attitudes.

• Focusing on education and attitudes among young people.

EVIDENCE OF CHANGE

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Evidence of Change

• The most consistent indicators seen in WEL projects are

“proportion of women who are participants / beneficiaries” and

targets related to income growth.

• There are examples of indicators from projects – and

indicators that came up through interviews, in the longer

report.

• There is evidence of changes in WEL-level outcomes in

different projects:

• Incomes higher

• Asset ownership rise in participating households; access to land titles

for women.

• Self-reported changes in self-esteem by women, observations from staff

and from government and partner staff.

• Some changes in men’s attitudes in some projects.

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Evidence of Change (2)

BUT....

It’s easy to get stuck at the economic and quality-

check level, without intentionally gathering data

on the WEL core outcomes.

PROGRAMME LEARNING

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Programme Learning

Community of Practice

• Development of knowledge among staff and partners.

• Creating connections between country teams, for future

sharing.

• Links in to programme quality (design, management) – seen

when proposals go in.

Other support

• Supporting others – sharing documentation, exchange visits.

• Advisory support – a ‘deep bench’ across different affiliates.

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MEAL Practice

• In Sri Lanka and the Philippines, curiosity and programme

development seemed to drive MEL practice – not simply

adherence to standards. We saw:

• Voices from the community brought in to mid-term evaluations,

compared against opinions of Oxfam staff and partners.

• Most significant change projects brining in hundreds of stories of

change from project participants.

• Participatory action research to help prompt/catalyze thinking

about gender relationships – and also illuminate issues for

Oxfam.

• Process documentation, to help generate evidence for advocacy.

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

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1. Never enough?Incomes are

increasing!

(Hooray!) But

they’re still

under the

poverty line....

And is this

resulting in more

power for

women?

There are real

changes in

women’s power

at the household

level. But are

they seeing

greater power at

all levels?

We’re seeing

managers and

leaders in the

federations

and

involvement of

women up the

production

line. But is it

only a few

token women?

This isn’t to

scale or a

system-level

change..

Speaking of scaled change: we won a huge

policy victory in women’s land ownership. But

we’re not seeing it being implemented on the

ground...

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2. Does a project have to be at a certain

level / maturity before we call it WEL?

What if local conditions mean a project only

involves women producing for local markets,

and not allowed to travel beyond the home?

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According to recommendations....no.

•

If a project is aiming at achieving

transformative shifts of WEL outcomes and

doing WEL quality checks, it can be a WEL

project. It just might take a lot longer (and a few

stages) to achieve large-scale change ....

• And transformations in gender relations might

seem a little smaller in nature.

Does a project have to be at a certain

level / maturity before we call it WEL?

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3. Standards?

• Not suggesting a blueprint-based approach but

• More specific alignment with the WEL framework

would be a good thing – enable more clarity on

intention, which helps us learn.

• Means being very clear about the non-financial

outcomes projects are aiming for.

OVER TO YOU...

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• What did we miss?

• Is anything surprising?

Anything very much

expected?

• What do you think about the

discussion questions?

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HOW TO FEED BACK

• Download the full report or one of the summaries from: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/xt8zrrf2fg6zly7/L6Yf3GeKyb

• Attend the online session on February 24 at XXX.

• Email your comments to kbowman@oxfam.org.uk by 26

February – either as track changes or in a separate doc

(if latter, no more than 800 words please.)

Thank You!

Sri Lanka Feedback

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What we like

• Report is useful, relevant, clear – helps thinking to move forward

on WEL.

• Demystifies the concept – engendered livelihoods programmes.

Most outcomes are gender and not livelihoods outcomes.

• New framework - good to focus on ‘framework’ with tools,

approaches, outcomes etc and not be prescriptive about

activities.

• Close monitoring / action research - to inform about gender

issues, strategies & outcomes.

• Standardised core WEL outcomes

• Moving WEL from a ‘project’ to an approach – but to what extent

is this the mainstream approach to Oxfam livelihoods

programmes?

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Some ongoing challenges• Technical MEL issues – income, confidence etc

• Links to other frameworks - resilience, GEM, wellbeing

• Implementing teams / partners – need strong gender and

livelihoods skills (and good collaboration)

• Which socio-economic groups tend to participate / benefit from

WEL – small-holders; risk-takers; entrepreneurs; landless;

second income etc

• Scale – breadth vs depth. Transformative change in the lives of a

few or in the lives of many?

• Scale of impact – yes, changes at individual, HH and enterprise

level. Unsure of wider impacts – particularly for non-project

participants (enabling environment).

PhilippinesFeedback on WEL in Asia Report26 Feb 2014

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• Captured changes that happened from the WEL projects

in the Philippines

• Work around gender responsive budgeting (public

investment) and care work complements WEL

• Efforts to complement national advocacy with

development programme

• PAR as methodology for raising awareness and

evidence building for influencing work

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CHALLENGES

• Need to level-off with the partners and communities on the

WEL indicators/standards that we will be looking at in the

course of the project (e.g., how will women’s capabilities or

increased power, voice and decision-making be measured?)

• Interfacing WEL with CCA/DRR work. Protection from risks

such as conflict, disasters and climate change impact

• Strategies to address deeply conservative cultural practices

(religion & culture; IPs)

• Implementation of laws & policies + Sustainability/Continuity

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