Scaling innovations for reduced and redistributed (I4RR) women’s unpaid care work in smallholder livestock feed provision in rural Kenya and Ethiopia

A bundle of social and technological innovations is being tested in selected communities in Kenya and Ethiopia. This includes labour-saving tools and services, such as gender-responsive livestock fodder, donkey services for the transportation of fodder, and village childcare. Complementing these innovations, the project will deliver household and community-level gender transformative dialogues and trainings to reflect on gender inequality and engage in collective decision-making.

Using this approach, the project aims to inform the development of care policies specific to the agricultural sector by determining which innovations lead to a reduction or redistribution of women’s unpaid care work, and whether these changes result in an increased sense of empowerment. The project is also involving the private sector to generate evidence on how commercial models of fodder and childcare provisions can support development and gender equality goals.