Senior Innovation Manager, IDH
Kafui presented IDH’s five-component approach to gender-transformative business models that deliver both commercial viability and women’s empowerment by addressing root causes of gender inequality. He conducted an interactive demo of IDH’s Innovation Library tool, showing how users can filter innovations to address gender inequality while maintaining business benefits. The presentation emphasized intentional design over add-on approaches.
I think a lot of people will be familiar with the literature, which shows that engaging with women can result in lower credit losses also often see higher uptake of of good agricultural practices, as well as some reduced risks for farmers and for women farmers.
All the questions and discussions centred on the Innovation Library as a tool rather than going into detail on the gender innovations. There was general enthusiasm on the tool without people having had the time to use it but also some questions raised about process and direction
For instance, it was mentioned that it serves as a helpful compass to orientate people to different solutions and existing IDH research. A key discussion point was on how we incorporate even more external case studies and innovations. We talked about the merits of crowdsourcing more content from other organisations, but also ensuring IDH is resourced to effectively take in and manage inbound requests
One piece of advice was given to allow the innovation library to be available in different languages to increase accessibility
We also discussed about how we may want better incorporate indicators on the strength of existing evidence. While not intended to be an evidence gap map, such maps can provide some inspiration on how to better indicate the underlying evidence for a particular claim
Lastly, there was discussion over whether the tool and the broader evidence on the Farmfit Insights Hub were publicly available for free use by others – which is indeed the case
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