1. What type of changes are required to institutionalize gender issues within agriculture and NRM organizations?

  • Political Commitment
  • Technical capacity in gender mainstreaming and social/gender analysis
  • Accountability to gender policies
  • Supportive organizational culture: norms, values and attitudes

2. What practices are most effective to drive organizational change?

  • Provide training for women of producer groups, government departments of agriculture/NRM on:

• Communication skills
• Negotiation skills
• Advocacy skills
• Management skills
• Skills for agro-enterprise

  • Men for Gender Equality: training on how to support women leaders
  • Encouraging heads of organizations to support organizational change
  • Build technical capacity in gender mainstreaming and social/gender analysis
  • Develop professionals to act as ‘brokers' between the organizations and rural women's groups

3. How can women farmers influence organizational accountability and resources?

  • Acting as advocates for change in fora such as the Network of Women Agriculture Ministers and Leaders
  • Ultimately, obtain control of resources channeled to their own groups to gain the power to demand services of agriculture and NRM organizations.