Paula Kantor - AgWISE: A Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Perspective [40:11-45:17]

Okay, thank you so much more. So going forward, you know, our focus as I said earlier is to try and sort of institutionalize the advice module and perhaps move it to the sort of at bar with the wise scale so moving from the module to do the scale. And this will require sort of refining the module piloting it in a couple of different phases, which is what we intend to do now in in 2026, we want to. You know, it pilot the module again in six climate what sports in Bangladesh and possibly also in Cambodia and we also want to look at water for ecosystems, water for nature, which is really. It's really key critical because it defines, you know, the this availability and security of water for for domestic and productive needs, so we want and also that. You know, by diversity resources are often used and and form a very important livelihood component of the most marginalized group, so this is something that we want to take forward. And then in Bangladesh, you know, supported by the scaling for impact program, we have been working with the Ministry of Finance. To really try and sort of move their current spending of the gender responsive budget towards, you know, doing really a good planning budgeting and, you know, monitoring outcome of of this spend of the gender responsive budget. And Bangladesh is one of the few countries where 30% of the budget of every department of every ministry is being, you know, is allocated for gender responsive activities. However, at the current moment, what is happening is that this budget is allocated and it is reported as spent, but there is no outcome mapping, so we would, you know, like to influence outcome mapping and we therefore also want to work with the Ministry of Water Resources to see if they are also able to build data and statistics on. Agriculture water insecurity as well as the domestic water insecurity through the use of the gender gender budget and and this is something that we intend to do this year supported by the scaling for impact program work together with the Ministry of Finance, water resources and the women affairs ministry to try and see how we could take forward. You know, build more solid evidence and data around water insecurity and also use the data to in shape, you know, programs and and other activities in these departments. Thank you so much. That's the end of our presentation. The very open questions. Thank you so much for your presentation today. This was extremely insightful and I know many of us enjoyed the presentation. I would like to open the floor now if any of the participants today in the seminar have any questions they would like to pose. You can raise your hand, speak up or put your question in the chat as well. We have a question from Maxwell. Hi. This was a great presentation, great talk. So I was just curious, I think on the slide before me three, you are showing the gap between men and women. And I noticed on the for farm size, it looked like yeah, just before the craft, yeah, this one. Yeah, I noticed the gap seems to be larger for the large farmers or large farm size, land size farmers as compared to the small and the medium. Especially then and nearly in terms of the farm size and the gap between men and women. So I was just wondering what if you have any insights of why that is the case.