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United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Gender, Science and Technology UNESCO Building, Paris, France 28 September - 01 October 2010 GENDER DI MENSI ONS OF SCI ENCE AND TECHNOLOGY I N AGRI CULTURE AND CLI MATE CHANGE Mereseini Seniloli Land

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United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Gender, Science and Technology UNESCO Building, Paris, France 28 September - 01 October 2010

GENDER DI MENSI ONS OF SCI ENCE AND TECHNOLOGY I N AGRI CULTURE AND CLI MATE CHANGE

Mereseini Seniloli

Land Resources Division Secretariat of the Pacific Community

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GENDER DIMENSIONS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN AGRICULTURE AND CLIMATE CHANGE

CASE STUDY

DEVELOPMENT OF SUSTAI NABLE AGRI CULTURE I N THE PACI FI C (DSAP) PROJECT

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Development of Sustainable Agriculture in the Pacific

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DSAP I

Fiji French Polynesia Kiribati PNG Samoa SoIomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu Wallis & Futuna

DSAP II

Cook Islands, FSM, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Palau

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Overall Objective To improve food security and livelihood of target farm families Project Purpose Increased sustainable agricultural production

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How does DSAP operate?

SPC COUNTRIES

National Steering Committee National Staff – REA, GREA, ECA

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THE DSAP PROCESS

Consult with farmers Collaborate with other units within the ministry Engage in partnerships with other organisations Include women and youth in our activities

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Results

  • Farmer specific production problems and solutions identified.
  • Appropriate technologies developed from on-farm

demonstrations.

  • NARES and NGO staff skills upgraded in participatory

methods and technical skills

  • Appropriate technologies promoted
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CLI MATE CHANGE EFFECTS

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DSAP TECHNOLOGI ES

Soil improvement

Comparison of Biomass of the 2 Crops of Sweet Corns.

5 10 15 20 25 30 Control Compost Charcoal NPK Ch+NPK Ch+Com Com+NPK Treatments Weights (g) Crop 1 Crop 2

Effects of Compost, Irrigation, and Application of Zn and Fe

  • n yield per plant of chinese cabbage

0.05 0.1 0.15 0.2 0.25 0.3 0.35 C

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m C m + I C m + I + Z n C m + I + F e C m + I + Z n + F e Treatment Yield per plant (kg) Yield (kg)

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BIS DSAP TECHNOLOGI ES

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DSAP TECHNOLOGI ES

Evaluation of tissue culture plantlets

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DSAP TECHNOLOGI ES

Other Activities

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DSAP TECHNOLOGIES On farm Trials

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GENDER REVI EW OF DSAP

  • Gender mainstreaming – goal
  • Gender enabling factors

– Political will and leadership – Appropriate policy framework – Structure and mechanism within – Human and financial resources – Sex-disaggregated data

  • Supporting tools and skills to use them

– Motivation from civil society and stakeholders

  • Gender sensitivity

– Basic and strategic needs – Policy and programme level action

  • Pacific Platform for Action (PPA)
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GENDER REVI EW FI NDI NGS (PROJECT)

  • DSAP project has developed a solid foundation of gender enabling

factors in all 16 project countries

  • Gender sensitizing training of staff and partners
  • Representation by gender in all DSAP publications
  • Strategic selection of project partners

– Tonga Development Community Trust women projects – PNG school partnerships – Kiribati and youth projects

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GENDER REVI EW FI NDI NGS (PROJECT OUTCOMES)

  • Engendered

– Atmosphere of hope and direction in rural communities for females and males – Remarkable no. of women participating in DSAP project (NSC, PRA, activities, disaggregating data by sex, level of participation) – Technologies promoted are those males and females have requested, fit family food needs and resources – DSAP teams have succeeded in establishing the sense of mutual trust and confidence – Tonga (tapa making), Fiji (separation of male and female activities), PNG (taro farm and a female member of the Trade Mission team visit to Fiji)

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ENGENDERED AGRI CULTURE PROJECT

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THE GENDER SENSITIZED DSAP TEAM! AWARDED THE SPC GENDER AWARD!

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OVERVI EW OF I SSUES

  • Lessons learned

– Usage of participatory/consultative methods – Capitalizing on gender roles of community member – Technologies developed are gender sensitive – Collaborative efforts with relevant sectors – Client oriented

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OVERVI EW OF I SSUES

  • Challenges

– Takes time and commitment – Adherence to cultural norms and values – Building trust requires keeping your word – Move on with success stories – Learn from failures and move on

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OVERVI EW OF I SSUES

  • Impacts

– Improve farm households’ (female/male headed) livelihood – and more………. Documents:

  • 1. Case Studies, Lessons from the field, THE DSAP EXPERIENCE
  • 2. A participatory toolkit for sustainable agriculture programmes in

the Pacific – THE DSAP EXPERIENCE Download: – http://www.spc.int/lrd/index.php?option= com_docman&Itemid = 138

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THANK YOU!