Presented by Jemimah Njuki at the Nile Basin Development Challenge Science and Reflection Workshop, Addis Ababa, 4-6 May 2011.

1. Gender in the NBDCJemimah Njuki Nile Basin Development ChallengeScience and Reflection WorkshopAddis Ababa, 4-6 May 2011

2. Rationale for gender within the Nile Basin Research Agenda Men and Women’s different roles in crop, livestock and land management Need to understand different roles of men and women in order to more effectively target interventions / information Need for approaches that reach women given their role in water management Different priorities for water use between men and women, need to understand these, integrate them in the project implementation process Technologies, market and institutional innovations are not gender neutral: Differential impacts of technologies (including RWM) interventions on men, women and other social groups Indicators to monitor processes and impacts on households but also on men and women Gender and power relations shape benefits, trade-offs, opportunities

3. Gender and Rain Water Management: What do we know? General review of water and land management strategies Constraints faced by men and women Differences in water use (consumption, income generation, crop production) Roles and status of men and women in land and water management Labour issues Water user’s associations, role and participation of women Impacts of technologies/ other innovations (not much gender disaggregation) Review of specific technologies Conservation agriculture-mainly focused on labour issues, decision making Watershed management-mainly on community participation and the role of women, negotiating benefits, some gendered impacts Terraces –labour issues, potential for women dominated crops on terraces

4. A framework for looking at gender issues in RWM Schematic representation of a gendered livelihood conceptual framework (GAAP, 2011)

5. Application of the framework to NBDC research and implementation

6. Questions for debate What are the key gender issues (access to land, etc) to consider to achieve the goal of improved livelihoods and environmental sustainability? How do we integrate gender into the innovation platforms, the action research, the modeling and the mapping?