Securing women’s access to livestock assets and income in Kenya and Mozambique

Project Goals and Objectives

The goal of the project is to improve and secure women’s access to livestock assets and control over income and products derived from them, in the face of increasing commercialization and formalization of livestock value chains

Project Objectives



i. Better understand factors influencing women’s access to, ownership of, and control over livestock and related assets, and the income and products derived from them, in different livestock systems in the two countries as well as other assets on which livestock are dependent on including land and water.

ii. Better understand the impact of increasing commercialization and formalization of livestock value chains on women’s income and assets, under different individual and collective approaches to increasing market access and under different informal rights regimes

iii. Analyse gender differentiated investments from sale of livestock assets and products and their implications for household welfare outcomes

iv. Improve the ability of policy makers and development practitioners to incorporate appropriate collective action and property rights dimensions in their livestock value chain policies and programs in order to reduce poverty and increase equity.