Gender Empowerment in Agriculture Interventions: What Are We Still Missing? Evidence From a Randomized-Controlled Trial Among Coffee Producers in Honduras
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Journal Article (2021)
A randomised-control trial, based on coffee producer communities in Western Honduras, that aims to evaluate the impact of a gender empowerment in agriculture intervention with organizations of coffee producers.
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Content
Relevance of sharing the results and positive findings of the randomised-control trial and the intervention, as well as the recommendations for practitioners, including robust evidence of the heterogeneous effect of the project.
Key findings
Timing of funding might significantly affect the results of this project.
Funding follows short periods of only 1-2 years. Not enough time to implement actual transformation. Must focus on not doing short rounds of funding for this level of expected outcomes (women’s empowerment).
Important to consider targeting differently the beneficiaries based upon their own characteristics before launching the project.
In this project, there was a single standardised gender intervention for all, which did not take into account that women have different levels of empowerment.
Some beneficiaries had a level of empowerment, which allowed them to benefit better from the project’s interventions, others were already empowered, consequently the intervention did not change their status, and meanwhile the least empowered might have improved their empowerment, but did not reached the project’s goals.
Proposed action
The findings and lessons learned from this research can be considered by practitioners and researchers when planning their interventions and designing their evaluation plans
Useful for any agricultural intervention that has a gender dynamic aspect
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Special thanks to Jasmyn Spanswick for preparation assistance
We would like to extend a special thank you to Jasmyn Spanswick, for their invaluable contribution in assisting the preparation of this research summary.
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Gender Empowerment in Agriculture Interventions: What Are We Still Missing? Evidence From a Randomized-Controlled Trial Among Coffee Producers in Honduras
Cite this brief: Rubio-Jovel, Karla. 'Gender Empowerment in Agriculture Interventions: What Are We Still Missing? Evidence From a Randomized-Controlled Trial Among Coffee Producers in Honduras '. Acume. https://www.acume.org/r/gender-empowerment-in-agriculture-interventions-what-are-we-still-missing-evidence-from-a-randomized-controlled-trial-among-coffee-producers-in-honduras/
Brief created by: Karla Rubio-Jovel | Year brief made: 2022
Original research:
- Rubio-Jovel, K., ‘Gender Empowerment in Agriculture Interventions: What Are We Still Missing? Evidence From a Randomized-Controlled Trial Among Coffee Producers in Honduras’ 5 (pp. 695390) https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2021.695390. – https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2021.695390/full
Research brief:
A randomised-control trial, based on coffee producer communities in Western Honduras, that aims to evaluate the impact of a gender empowerment in agriculture intervention with organizations of coffee producers.
Relevance of sharing the results and positive findings of the randomised-control trial and the intervention, as well as the recommendations for practitioners, including robust evidence of the heterogeneous effect of the project.
Findings:
Timing of funding might significantly affect the results of this project.
Funding follows short periods of only 1-2 years. Not enough time to implement actual transformation. Must focus on not doing short rounds of funding for this level of expected outcomes (women’s empowerment).
Important to consider targeting differently the beneficiaries based upon their own characteristics before launching the project.
In this project, there was a single standardised gender intervention for all, which did not take into account that women have different levels of empowerment.
Some beneficiaries had a level of empowerment, which allowed them to benefit better from the project’s interventions, others were already empowered, consequently the intervention did not change their status, and meanwhile the least empowered might have improved their empowerment, but did not reached the project’s goals.
Advice:
The findings and lessons learned from this research can be considered by practitioners and researchers when planning their interventions and designing their evaluation plans
- For implementation, it is relevant to consider the importance of designing tailored interventions based on the group’s heterogeneity, and for evaluation, the importance of doing a proper selection of indicators and measurement tools, as well as the selection of the sample size (including replacement).
Useful for any agricultural intervention that has a gender dynamic aspect