GALVmed and Gender:

Challenges & lessons

learned

Dr. Lois Muraguri

FAO Gender & Livestock Training Workshop

Addis Ababa, 22-25 November 2011

Outline

• GALVmed briefly

• Why gender?

• Initial steps and growing pains...

• Modest achievements

• Developing a strategy – Where gender features in organisational structure

– Where gender fits in GALVmed’s present & future – reality and

aspirations

– Important thematic areas for GALVmed

• Challenges and lessons learned

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• An Animal Health Product Development & Access Partnership organisation

• A not-for-profit Public-Private Partnership – registered charity

• Sponsored by BMGF, DFID and EC.

• Pro-poor focus: working with key partners to make a sustainable difference

in access to animal health products for poor livestock keepers

GALVmed - Global Alliance for Livestock Veterinary Medicines

“Protecting Livestock Saving Human Life”

For

many,

livestock

is a

necessity

not a

choice

VISION: “Protecting Livestock, Saving Human Life” MISSION: In partnership, GALVmed promotes the identification, development

and delivery of accessible and affordable animal health products for the world’s poorest livestock keepers, thus contributing to poverty reduction.

• HQ Edinburgh U.K

• Africa Office (Botswana) + South Asia Office (India) • Structure/Departments – R&D, P&EA, Finance, HR, Admin • Board, SC, Advisory committees – ESAC, GAAC, SARAC

GALVmed’s unique approach

Discovery Research

Development Registration Production Commer-cialisation

Sustained delivery

OPERATIONS GLOBAL ACCESS P&EA

R&D Market Development

Lack of

supporting

policies to

stimulate

research

Lack of

supporting

policies for

investment in

development e.g.

AMCs, APGs

Lack of patent

protection

Unclear and varied

regulatory

requirements

Lack of QA/QC

Multiple regulatory

authorities

Lack of policies

to support

private sector

involvement

No support for

credit

guarantees, etc

Inappropriate

extension

systems

Counterfeit

products

Lack of patent

protection

No support for

encouraging

commercial

interest

Lack of support

for AMCs, APGs,

etc

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Our role is to identify challenges and provide facilitation and leadership

in creating partnerships to address barriers relating to availability and

accessibility of pro poor animal health products

Gender in organisational structure

Discovery Research

Development Registration Production Commer-cialisation

Sustained delivery

OPERATIONS GLOBAL ACCESS P&EA

R&D Market Development

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GENDER

• Monitoring & focal point sits in P&EA dept but understood

to be cross cutting

• Acknowledgement that gender can no longer be an

incidental by – product of a more generic disease based

approach

GALVmed’s unique approach • Works across whole livestock value chain

• Seeking partnerships in each area

• Sustainability through support of business/commercial model

• our niche is in partnership creation through out value chain to

mitigate risks, ensure buy in and sustainability

• Capacity building

• Taking leadership from developing countries

• Understanding what livestock farmers need

• Getting critical livestock vaccines/medications and diagnostics

into the hands of farmers - delivery

Available, Accessible, Affordable, Adoptable

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Animal Health

Industry

Donors

Governments

Poor Farmers

Universities

GALVmed

Potential

Solutions

Identified

Need

Innovation

Research Institutions

Pro Poor Impact through

sustainable Animal Health

Solutions

GALVmed is completing

the picture.....

Catalyst\Facilitator

Why gender?

• Women already supply majority of labour and expertise on

small holder farms; 66% of world’s 600m poor livestock

keepers are rural women

• Women provide half of world’s food, earn only one tenth of

world’s income, own less than one hundredth of world’s

property (ILRI, 2008)

• Any intervention directed at poverty reduction must take

gender seriously – at all levels

• On business side - gender equality is smart economics

• Gender is an essential component in effectively and

sustainably improving livelihoods

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Growing pains

• Grand plans for gender in first grant – didn’t come to

fruition

• No streamlined or strategic steps at the beginning

• Slow start in integrating gender conceptually with SEI &

M&E

• Commissioning support – small pool of experts with

integrated approach

• Balancing pragmatism and the ideal

• Challenges in convening and adopting multi stakeholder

approaches

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Modest achievements

• Commissioned two gender reports – Africa and South

Asia

• Begun collecting gender related data in our baseline

surveys – work in progress and steep learning curve

• Consultative workshop with ultimate aim of assembling

‘ingredients’ that will help GALVmed develop gender

strategy & implementation plan

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Challenges and lessons so far

• Gender targeting doesn’t happen automatically –

deliberate actions needed

• There’s a lot of info on gender but particularly crucial is

the ‘how to’ and the ‘will’ to implement gender strategies

at all levels – Board, Directors’ Group, all staff + partners

• Balance between what we can learn from others and what

is applicable/feasible – fit for purpose

• Important: listen to others, honest self reflection and

willingness to learn and implement

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Challenges and lessons so far

• Data collection – very very steep learning curve – Livelihoods approach is more meaningful

– Understanding intrahousehold dynamics is important

– Gender sensitisation, training and analysis to ensure same

understanding

– Participatory approaches can yield useful outcomes

• Integrating gender into ongoing activities

• Partner selection using gender criterion – balance & trade

offs

• practical & efficient steps to mainstreaming gender

• But these challenges are also opportunities...

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Gender in GALVmed’s Business Plan

• BP covers 2011 – 2017

• Reflects lessons from Phase 1 & sets objectives and

broad intentions for Phase 2

• Although there’s a specific section on gender, references

are made through out document – Species: Poultry platform, Small ruminant platform

– ‘Last mile’ distribution models

– Market Development

– Voice & policy

– M&E

– Fundraising

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Gender in GALVmed’s Business Plan

• Analysis of BP would (perhaps) reveal: – Commitment to working on gender

• blind aware responsive

– Conceptualisation (and some practice) of gender integration and

mainstreaming • Mention of gender under various Major Activities

• Budgetary project design

• No intention of creating gender unit

– Women not just seen as end beneficiaries but potential

participants at various parts of the value chain

– Indications of gender attention at R&D/technical side – target

product profile

– Perhaps at odds? • Aspirational and ambitious vs GALVmed’s pragmatic approach

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Gender in GALVmed’s present & future

• Important themes for GALVmed which conceptualisation

and formulation of gender strategies and implementation

activities must bear in mind (& vice versa): – Business development, market development &

commercialisation

– Data, data, data (and more data!) – M&E

– Capacity building

– Partnerships

• How do we practically integrate gender in GALVmed’s

key themes?

• How do we mainstream gender internally & in our

activities with others? 17

Thank you

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THANK

YOU