Gender Nutrition Methods Workshop- 2013

1. A4NH Gender-Nutrition Methods
Workshop
December 6-7, 2013
Day 2 Intro
Karibuni Kenya

3. Are you sitting still?, would you be in the same place next year?
Earth is rotating on its axis at 1666KPh
Earth is rotating around the sun at 107,000kph
Sun is moving through the universe around the galactic core at 650,000 Kph
Galaxy moving through the universe at 3,600,000kph
= You are on the move @ 4,383,610 Kph

4. What one approach, body of knowledge ,
technique that you explored yesterday will
you use in your current or future research
and who are you going to work with? (Blue)
What actions, outcomes do you want to see
taken and followed up after the workshop
today? (Green)

5. Objectives
• At the end of the workshop, attendees are expected to:
• Have a better understanding of how gender could
influence the nutrition outcomes of agricultural
interventions in their CRP, and any potential for harm if
gender is ignored
• Apply their knowledge of gender methods/tools and
the gender-nutrition pathways to the design and
implementation of research in their CRPs
• Know who is working on gender-nutrition issues in
other CRPs and be able to identify opportunities for
future collaboration

6. Working agreements
The grasshopper which is always near its mother eats the best food. ~Ghanaian
Words are sweet, but they never take the place of food. ~Ibo
A housewife who complains that there is not enough foodstuff in the market should
remember that if her husband adds to what is already available, there would be more
for everyone. ~Nigerian
Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~ Akan
Wealth, if you use it, comes to an end; learning, if you use it, increases. Swahili
Advice is a stranger; if he’s welcome he stays for the night; if not, he leaves the same
day. ~Malagasy
Having a good discussion is like having riches ~ Kenya
Where a woman rules, streams run uphill. ~ Ethiopian
You must act as if it is impossible to fail. ~ Ashanti
However long the night, the dawn will break. ~ African

7.  Woman is like the earth: everyone sits down on her (Zaire)
 The man may be the head of the home, the wife is the heart. (Kenya)
 A wife is like an old cooking pot: you don't let your friend keep it for you.
(Uganda)
 Married women are like elephant tusks: you don't touch them. (Kenya)
 Woman is a fire. If you have to, take a little. (Senegal)
 To bear a girl is to bear a problem. (tigrinya/Ethiopia)
 A women is like a shield: you call it light until you try it on. (Uganda)
 Believe a women's word the day after (Kenya)
 You can trust your brother, your father, your mother, but never your wife (Benin)
 Women without man is a field without seed. (Zaire)
 Women have no king (Bari, Sudan)
 Beat your wife regularly; if you don't know why, she will (west Africa, possibly of
Arab origin)