Compass assessment: 2002 document 44 august 2002

Table 1. Activity Profile: Division of Labour at Household and Community

Activity	Women	Men	Girls	Boys
Productive activities Agriculture Land preparation Planting Weeding harvesting Income Generation Petty trade in the market Casual wage labour	2 2 2 2 2 1	2 2 1 1 1 1	1 1 1 1 1 1	1 1 1 1 0 0
	11	8	6	4
Reproductive Activities Water collection Food preparation maize pounding child care housecleaning firewood collection washing Nursing the sick	2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2	1 0 0 1 1 0 1 1	2 2 1 1 2 1 1 1	1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1
	16	5	11	6
Community Work Weddings School construction Community meetings Funerals Group meetings	2 2 2 2 1	1 2 2 2 1	1 0 0 1 0	1 1 0 1 0
	9	8	2	3

Note
0 – Not involved

1 – Sometimes involved

2 – Fully Involved

From this analysis, women and girls in Bwanje do most of the household and farm work compared to men and boys.

Table 2. Bwanje Afforestation Project: Division of Labour in Project Activities in Bwanje

Activity	Women	Men	Girls	Boys
Seed collection Nursery preparation Manure preparation Collection of fencing materials Soil pot filling Planting Water collection Watering Collection of thatching grass Fence construction Transplanting Planting in the field	2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 2 0 2 2	2 2 2 1 2 2 0 2 2 2 2 2	0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0	0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
	21	21	1	1