Gender transformative methodologies in Ethiopia's agricultural sector: the annexes

Abstract

Transformative Household Methodology (THM) intends to transform intra-household gender relations by improving relations between women and men, girls and boys. THM was adapted from a Harvard gender analytical tool (activity profile, and access and control over resources/benefits) and participatory rural appraisal tools (such as proportional piling, wealth ranking and seasonal analysis). Initially the approach was developed by Ethiopian gender staff of Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) for the Amhara Rural Development Program in 2004 and also used in the HARVEST SIDA funded Program but operated at the community level. Send a Cow Ethiopia adapted the approach from SIDA and implemented it with households since 2009. IFAD funded Send a Cow to pilot and then scale up the THM in different areas of Ethiopia and IFAD has also funded THM projects in Malawi and Uganda. It is unclear how similar the SIDA, Send a Cow and non-Ethiopian THM approaches are, as not all manuals were able to be source