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Genderanalysisreport GENDER ANALYSIS REPORT SELEVER PROJECT BURKINA FASO Prepared by Sita Zougouri and Emily Cook-Lundgren October 2016 SELEVER Gender Analysis October 2016 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Executive Summary ....................................................................................................................1 1.1 Major Findings and Recommendations ........................................................................................... 1 2 Background and Objectives ........................................................................................................3 2.1 Key Questions and Themes .............................................................................................................. 4 3 Methodology .............................................................................................................................5 3.1 Desk Review ..................................................................................................................................... 5 3.2 Geographic Sampling ....................................................................................................................... 7 3.3 Research Participant Selection ........................................................................................................ 7 3.4 Data Collection ................................................................................................................................. 8 3.4.1 Focus Group Discussions ............................................................................................................. 8 3.4.2 In-Depth Interviews ..................................................................................................................... 8 3.5 Data Analysis Process ....................................................................................................................... 8 3.5.1 Sensemaking ................................................................................................................................ 8 3.5.2 Qualitative Data Coding ............................................................................................................... 9 3.6 Study Limitations ............................................................................................................................. 9 4 Findings .....................................................................................................................................9 4.1 Time-use and Labor ......................................................................................................................... 9 4.1.1 Time use and division of labor ..................................................................................................... 9 4.1.2 Women and paid work .............................................................................................................. 12 4.2 Access and control over productive assets .................................................................................... 14 4.2.1 Land ........................................................................................................................................... 14 4.2.2 Other resources ......................................................................................................................... 14 4.2.3 Control over revenue ................................................................................................................. 15 4.3 Economic Opportunities and Barriers ............................................................................................ 16 4.3.1 Reasons for Poultry Production ................................................................................................. 16 4.3.2 Financing poultry activities ........................................................................................................ 16 4.3.3 Division of labor in poultry production ..................................................................................... 16 4.3.4 Gender and the right to raise poultry........................................................................................ 17 4.3.5 Reasons for women’s exclusion from poultry production ........................................................ 18 4.3.6 Women and poultry selling ....................................................................................................... 20 4.3.7 Obstacles to poultry production ................................................................................................ 21 4.3.8 Gender and the poultry value chain .......................................................................................... 22 4.3.9 Women’s interest in poultry activities ...................................................................................... 23 4.4 Local Governance and Decision-Making ........................................................................................ 23 4.5 Gender norms and influencing factors .......................................................................................... 24 4.6 Engaging men and mitigating risks ................................................................................................ 26 5 Recommendations ................................................................................................................... 27 5.1 Local Buy-In .................................................................................................................................... 27 5.2 Access to Finance and Inputs ......................................................................................................... 27 5.3 Technical Training and Information ............................................................................................... 28 5.4 Selling Poultry ................................................................................................................................ 28 5.5 Culture of Poultry Production ........................................................................................................ 29 5.6 Risk Mitigation ............................................................................................................................... 29 i SELEVER Gender Analysis October 2016 5.7 Future Research ............................................................................................................................. 29 6 Bibliography ............................................................................................................................ 30 7 Annex ...................................................................................................................................... 31 7.1 Data Collection Team Members .................................................................................................... 31 7.2 Gender Methodology ..................................................................................................................... 32 7.3 Enumerator Manual ....................................................................................................................... 40 7.4 Codebook ....................................................................................................................................... 80 ii SELEVER Gender Analysis October 2016 ACROYNYMS ASI Agribusiness Systems International CVD Village Development Committee DHS Demographic and Health Survey FGD Focus Group Discussion INSD National Institute for Statistics and Demography MFP Multifunctional Platform NGO Nongovernmental Organization ONG Organisation Non Gouvernementale SELEVER Soutenir l'Exploitation Familiale pour Lancer l'Élevage des Volailles et Valoriser l'Économie Rurale VVV Vulgarisateur Volontaire Villageois SELEVER Gender Analysis October 2016 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First and foremost, the research team wishes to extend its deep gratitude to the research participants— women, men, and all community leaders in the Boucle du Mouhoun and Center Ouest regions of Burkina Faso—for their time and participation in interviews and focus groups. This report was prepared by Sita Zougouri, gender lead and technical director for the SELEVER project with ASI, an affiliate of ACDI/VOCA, and Emily Cook-Lundgren, independent consultant, with contributions from Jean-Marie Zongo, nutrition lead for the SELEVER project. Kelsey Jones-Casey, formerly of Isthmus and Strait, provided overall leadership and research guidance for the gender analysis. Zougouri, Zongo, Cook-Lundgren, and Pascaline Bicaba, also of ASI, contributed to data coding and analysis. The research team wishes to thank the following individuals and organizations for their instrumental role in this study: the regional and local authorities of Boucle du Mouhoun and Centre Ouest regions; the Coalition Burkinabe des Droits des Femmes du Burkina Faso for their leading role in the data collection process and providing adequate conditions for fieldwork; the entire ASI Ouagadougou team for their excellent work running the gender analysis; the team of reviewers including Vicky Wilde of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Jenn Williamson of ACDI/VOCA, and Hannah Guedenet and Romain Kenfack of ASI; the data collection team including Ouédraogo Mariam, Toé Sanata, Tiegna Saiba, Nikiema H. K. Aristide, Sedgo Lamoussa, and Diessongo Madeleine; and everyone else who contributed in some way to the completion of this gender analysis. SELEVER Gender Analysis October 2016 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Soutenir l'Exploitation Familiale pour Lancer l'Élevage des Volailles
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