1. Technical Workshop on Gender and Irrigation
Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Small-Scale Irrigation
Technical Workshop on Gender and Irrigation
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, March 9-10, 2016
Photo credit: IWMI Flickr, Ghana, 2011; Passarelli, Ghana, 2015

2. Workshop objectives:
Key question: What gender issues matter in irrigation/agricultural water management?
To do this, we will:
Exchange knowledge and learn from each other’s experiences
Develop a diagnostic checklist
Learn about communication strategies
Join a network and stay in touch to collaborate in the future!

3. Write down on your index card and then meet someone new to share:
What are your main challenges to addressing gender in your current work?
Examples: knowledge gaps on specific topics; uncertainties in how to design, implement, or monitor; internal capacity within organization; support within the organization for gender work
What do you hope to get out of this workshop and why?
Examples: specific tools, concepts, approaches
Participants given different colored index cards for 1 and 2
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4. Case Studies Day 1: Form groups
Take volunteers for rapporteurs (stay with 1 case study)
Note taker, stays with the case study, reports back during debrief
Count off 1 to 5 to form 1 group per case study
Start in the case study of your group number
After 30 minutes, rotate to the next case study on the list:
Nigist Shiferaw, Send a Cow
Dr. Tizita Mulugeta, Agricultural Transformation Agency
Tibebu Koji, Oxfam America
Dr. Seifu Admassu, Bahirdar University/ILSSI
Likie Nigussie, IWMI
Stay with their group
Cant’ choose what case study you go to – have to go to the next one on the list

5. Case Studies: discussion guidelines
10 minute presentation on the case
15 minutes discussion using the checklist
What gender issues are most important in this case study?
How was gender addressed in this case study? (or could be)
5 minute synthesis discussion on suggestions for the checklist:
What questions worked best? What questions should be added?
Then ROTATE TO THE NEXT CASE STUDY
30 minutes per case study
Make sure to clearly indicate NUMBER for each case study – use same as in agenda for clarity

6. Case Studies Day 2: Form groups
Take volunteers for rapporteurs (stay with 1 case study)
Count off 1 to 4 to form 1 group per case study
Start in the case study of your group number
After 30 minutes, rotate to the next case study on the list:
Lemessa Mekonta, IRC
Likie Nigussie, IWMI
Dr. Meron Teferi Taye, Water and Land Resource Centre/REACH
Dr. Kebede Manjur and Dr. Shewit Abraham, Mekelle University
Stay with their group
Cant’ choose what case study you go to – have to go to the next one on the list

7. Brief overview of the case (where and what is the project)
Case Studies: Rapporteur reports back on: (5 minutes per rapporteur, 30 min total)
Brief overview of the case (where and what is the project)
2-3 questions that worked well to identify gender issues (checklist questions or others)
2-3 suggestions for the checklist

8. Case Studies: Checklist experts
Choose a section of the checklist to become an expert on
Household and community-level
Access to technology
Water governance
Impacts of irrigation
Assign people – they can trade if they want
Likie, Elizabeth, and Sophie go to each group and assign people a section of the checklist
Sophie will introduce the three sections and that we will ask for a leader in each group for each section

9. 15 minutes to discuss this section of the checklist:
Form small groups with other checklist experts (household, community, impacts)
15 minutes to discuss this section of the checklist:
What worked well? What didn’t work well?
What should be changed, questions to add?
Report back to the group (5 minutes per group, 15 minutes total)
Choose 2-3 things to change or questions to add?
During the tea break, use the time to get tea and then go to your groups.
Leaders/experts go to their groups – others can choose which section they want to discuss.
Will save notes and circulate on each case study after – so don’t worry about too much detail people can get it later

10. Thrive Blog: Big Question Series
Show at some point
Encourage people to comment and add their questions
We will do a synthesis post
Can also write a blog pots in response if they are interested

11. Findings from Day 1 Intentions
Fill in here with insights/groupings from intention setting activity
Emphasis of workshop
Remaining gaps
What else do we still need to know?

12. Closing discussion for small groups:
What did you find most useful from this workshop?
In what ways did the workshop help you prepare to overcome challenges to gender integration in your work?
How do you plan to use what you learned from this workshop in your work?
What are remaining knowledge gaps?
Take a few minutes to look at the index cards from day 1 with people’s intentions to remember what you wanted to learn from the workshop.
Get in small groups and discuss these 3 questions;
Designate a note taker and someone to report back
Have notetaker write on the flip chart so we get to keep the notes afterwards

13. Thank you!
Source: IWMI.