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The World Food Programme (WFP) Somalia Climate-Smart Food Systems strategy aims to transform food systems in Somalia by ensuring that national institutions, the private sector, smallholder farmers, and vulnerable populations benefit from climate-smart, productive, resilient, inclusive, and nutritious food systems. Gender transformative programming is essential to achieving these goals through critical examination of the prevailing gender inequalities and revolutionize the gender relations with positive and sustainable results for gender equality, women’s empowerment as well as food security and nutrition outcomes. WFP interventions go beyond meeting the practical needs to understanding and addressing the strategic needs of men, women, boys, and girls across diversities and transforming harmful, inequitable gender norms and values to ensure that men, women, girls, and boys live with dignity, have equal access to opportunities, harness their full capacity, access, ownership, and control over productive assets and resources, and meaningfully participate in leadership and decision making.
This Gender Transformative Approaches (GTA) guide has therefore been compiled as a resource for WFP, its cooperating partners and government staff to reinforce the learning derived from the Gender Transformative Approaches (GTA) in Agricultural Value Chain Development training. The guide provides an overview of the key principles of GTAs, practical steps on how to integrate gender equality into crop and livestock value chain development programmes and activities as well as key considerations for applying GTAs for transformational change in agriculture. While the intention is not to be prescriptive, the guide suggests how gender inequalities can be addressed in the value chain components using the Reach-Benefit-Empower-Transform (RBET) framework.
The guide is intended to be used by staff, cooperating partners, government and other stakeholders in their respective projects with farmer groups and organizations across Somalia enabling more efficient and effective responses to food insecurity challenges through faster progress in reducing gender inequality, enhancing inclusion, and promoting women’s empowerment. Specifically, the GTA guide aims.
• To promote equality of opportunity, treatment, and results for men and women across all diversities towards food security and nutrition.
• To increase the effectiveness and impact of WFP’s work on gender equality and women’s empowerment (GEWE) through gender transformative approaches addressing the root causes of gender inequality.
• To advance meaningful economic empowerment of women and girls for sustained and resilient food security and nutrition.
• To strengthen institutional capacity for more holistic integration of gender transformative approaches into all domains of WFP’s work.