Gender and participation in agricultural development planning
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This case study follows the Tanzanian project "Improving Information on Women's Contribution to Agricultural Production for Gender-Sensitive Planning". It presents the methodology utilised in Tanzania for training and for collecting information through gender-sensitive participatory diagnostic research on women in agriculture. The case study gives an overview of the training in PRA and Gender Analysis, the process of analysing the findings from the eight villages where the practical exercises were performed, and touches on the recommendations for conducting further activities in Tanzania. This project focused on planning, participation and gender. Planning and participation in the sense that rural women and men were actively involved in participatory planning exercises (using PRA) to collect information about their agricultural development needs. Gender in the sense of ensuring that both men and women had a voice in the planning exercise and that both men's and women's needs were recognised and district-level planners and extension staff, who are in a position to respond to the farmers' needs, participated in the process.