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Gender-sensitive value chain development in Senegal empowered women processors and retailers, increasing income and improving nutrition. Despite societal barriers, the initiative fostered collective empowerment and community development, highlighting needs for childcare and contraception.

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  • Development Studies
  • Gender Studies

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  • Limited income-earning opportunities for women in Senegal's agri-food sector.
  • Societal norms in Touba restrict women's mobility and economic participation.
  • Need for gender-sensitive approaches in value chain development (VCD).

Purpose of the Study:

  • To assess the impacts of a gender-sensitive VCD initiative on women's empowerment, income, and nutrition in Senegal.
  • To explore stakeholder perceptions of VCD's effects on women in the agri-food sector.
  • To identify barriers and facilitators to women's empowerment within a conservative context.

Main Methods:

  • Mixed-methods study combining surveys, interviews, and participatory focus groups.
  • Case study of a woman-owned food processing business in Touba, Senegal.
  • Analysis of impacts on women processors, retailers, farmers, and medical personnel.

Main Results:

  • Perceived positive impacts on women's empowerment, income, and nutrition.
  • Identification of husbands' lack of understanding and mobility restrictions as barriers.
  • Evidence of collective empowerment through community changes like childcare centers.
  • Women expressed desires for autonomy, childcare, and contraception.

Conclusions:

  • Gender-sensitive VCD can positively influence women's empowerment, income, and nutrition.
  • Addressing societal barriers and providing support services (childcare, contraception) is crucial.
  • Further research is needed on VCD's complex effects on women's empowerment in diverse contexts.
  • Senegal presents opportunities to study subnational variations in women's empowerment through VCD.