“ACTIONS TO EMPOWER RURAL WOMEN AND GIRLS”
Side Event on 13 March 2018
The 62nd Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW62)

Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment
in the Project for Supporting Rice IndustryDevelopment in Tanzania (TANRICE2)KIVA F. MBEMBA
Facilitator of Gender Training (TANRICE2)
MATI-Ukiriguru, Training Division, Ministry of Agriculture
United Republic of Tanzania

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Contents of the Presentation
1. Overview of Gender Issues in Agriculture in Tanzania
2. Outline of TANRICE2
3. Gender Mainstreaming Approach by TANRICE2
4. Gender-responsive Impacts through TANRICE2
5. Challenges
6. Conclusion21. Overview of Gender Issues in Agriculture
in Tanzania
 In spite of the fact that the constitution of Tanzania
recognizes the right of every citizen to own
property and protect that property, women in rural
areas do not own resources such as land forfarming.
 Women have limited access to credit fordevelopment because they do not own recourses.
 Women are struggling with heavy workload forboth farming (e.g. paddy production) andhousehold activities.
 Women do not have decision-making power onfamily resources and other properties, including
cash income from farming activities, despite theirsignificant contribution to farming activities.

Social, Traditional and Cultural Practices32. Outline of TANRICE2
 Type of Assistance: Technical Cooperation
 Cooperation Period: November 2012 – November 2018
 Implementing Agencies: Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) for Tanzania
Mainland (6 Training Institutes) , and Ministry of Agriculture,
Natural Resources, Livestock and Fisheries (MANRLF) for Zanzibar(1 Training Institute) in the United Republic of Tanzania
 Project Purpose: Rice farming technologies are adopted by farmersin rice production areas.
(Indicator: Adoption of straight row planting of rice by 15,000 farmers
and other technologies by 2,400 farmers by 2018)

 Overall Goal: Rice production is increased in rice production areas
across the country.
(Indicator: Annual paddy production of 2.5 million tons by 2021)

Integration of gender perspectives into all project activities willcontribute to increase rice production and improve farmers’
livelihood.

43. Gender Mainstreaming Approachesof TANRICE2
3-1: Promotion of gender mainstreaming in training courses on
irrigated rice farming, rainfed upland rice farming andrainfed lowland rice farming 50:50 ratio of male and female participation in training courses

to ensure female farmers’ participation;
 Inclusion of gender topics in every training to raise genderawareness among male and female farmers;
Equal Participation

Equal Presentation

5 Encouragement of use of

Gender Friendly Tool

simple tools in rice farming
to reduce adverse effects ofunequal division of labor
between male and female
farmers (e.g. push weeder,rotary weeder, rake forleveling, thresher, etc.);
 Conduct of surveys before and after trainings to identify

gender issues and changes in social behavior of male andfemale farmers in rice farming communities.

63-2: Implementation of the subject matter training on genderFive-day Training Course of SMT on Gender
Needs
Finding
SurveyGenderSensitization

FamilyBudgeting➢ Benefits ofmen
supporting
women

HIV/AIDS

NutritionandSanitation

Family Budgeting➢ Importance of joint
planning of income andexpenditure➢ Importance of equitable
sharing of income
obtained from rice farming
73-3: Conduct of gender-responsive surveys
 Various gender-responsive surveys conducted for:✓ Identifying gender issues;✓ Developing ideas on how to solve the issues;✓ Measuring gender-responsive impacts (88 cases collected).

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4. Gender-responsive Impacts through
TANRICE2
4-1: Improvement of rice productivity
 Paddy yield increased as a direct impact of training on rice

farming technologies with gender perspectives.
 Cooperation among family members reduced labor cost,
improved quality of work, and increased efficiency of eachfarming activity.
 Joint family budgeting contributed to efficient planning forrice farming as well as use of income gained from rice farming.

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Gender-responsive Impact Case 1

Gendersensitization

Genderintervention

Increase in
rice
production

Family budgeting104-2: Change of mindset on roles in rice farming Men get involved in weeding,transplanting and harvesting(threshing, winnowing, etc.);
these activities werepreviously considered as workfor women.
 Husbands who havealternative sources of income
are now paying for hired labor
to reduce their wives'workload.
 Women are elected into
leadership positions infarmers’ organizations.
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4-3: Change of mindset on roles in household activities
 Men started to do domestic activities, such as cooking,fetching water and collecting firewood by using bicycles,
ox-carts and motorcycles.
 Men started to cooperate with women in looking afterchildren.
4-4: Improvement of family finances Family members started to plan spending and saving

through family budgeting.
 Transparency in family finances increased through family
budgeting, which led to reduction of conflicts on money
issues among household members.
12Gender-responsive Impact Case 2: Change of Female Farmers’ Mindset
before and after the Training (Malolo irrigation scheme, Nzega District, Tabora Region )Female PerceptionBaseline Survey

 Cooperation between
men and women inpaddy production hasimproved.
 Male involvement inhousehold activities
has increased.
 Women get more
involved in family
decision making.

MALE

Female Perception after Training

FEMALEMALE

FEMALE

Levelling

34%

66%

Leveling

Transplanting

34%

66%

Transplanting

Weeding34%

66%

Weeding

47%

53%

Harvesting

36%

64%

Harvesting

44%

56%

Marketing

42%

58%

Marketing

51%

49%

60%
24%

40%
76%

Cooking 5%

95%Cooking

24%

76%

Fetching Water 9%

91%

Fetching Water

20%

80%

collection of firewood 6%

94%

Collection of firewood

28%

72%

Taking Care of Children

31%

69%

Peace and harmony have Taking Care of Children
been realized in families.
Family FinanceFarming Practice

22%

78%

44%

56%

Family Finance

50%

50%

34%

66%

Farming Practice

49%

51%

135. Challenges
 Difficulty in attaining 50:50 ratio of male and female
participation in the training courses especially infieldtraining
Limited understanding of leaders/decision-makers
in some communities
Heavy burden of housework on women Limitation of realization of gender impacts
Customs, traditions, believes and social norms insome communities
146. Conclusion
 An action plan to provide strategic direction toward genderequality and empowerment of rural women is essential.

Focus both on men
and women

Action Plan

Identification ofconstraints
hindering
women’sparticipation

Ensuring ofwomen’s
equitable accessto resources andopportunities
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THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTIONASANTENI SANA
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