Meeting information needs on gender issues in aquaculture -

Meeting information needs on gender issues in aquaculture

Field Document No. 33

ALCOM
Aquaculture for Local Community Development Programme

GCP/INT/555/SWE
GCP/RAF/273/JPN

By Jennie van der Mheen-Sluijer
Socio-economist
(Consultant)
and
Sevaly Sen
Socio-economist
ALCOM

Funding Agencies:
SWEDISH INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
JAPAN INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION AGENCY

Executing Agency:

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
Harare, Zimbabwe, December 1994

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

2. Guidelines on gender information required for sectoral planning and project formulation: macro-level

Development policies and programmes/projects for aquaculture on gender issues

Institutional¹ capacities

Sectoral characteristics

Demographic characteristics

Health and nutrition characteristics

Legal status of women

Credit availability

Extension services structure and training

Biological and technical research

3. Guidelines on gender information required for sectoral planning and project formulation: the micro level

Aquaculture

Household structures

Location of fish ponds

Key factors affecting access to resources and control over them

Household availability and allocation of resources

Access to and quality of extension services

Division of labour and time allocation

Household decision-making

Economics of fish farming

4. Guidelines on monitoring and evaluation

5. Guidelines: suggestions for incorporating gender issues into socioeconomic methodologies

A. Use of official statistics

B. Field work

C. Aggregation

Appendices 1 & 2

Appendix 1 - Aquaculture (macro level)

Appendix 2 - aquaculture (micro level)