For more information, please email:
Chesha Wettasinha – c.wettasinha@kit.nl
Ann Waters-Bayer – waters-bayer@web.de
NaviNut: Promoting women’s innovation in child-feeding in Benin & Kenya The project NaviNut “Enhancing women’s agency in navigating changing food environments to improve child nutrition in African drylands” (Sept 2021–Oct 2023) takes a transdisciplinary research approach: co-creating knowledge across different scientific disciplines and societal stakeholders. The German Institute for Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture (DITSL) coordinates …
Despite frequent gender-sensitivity training given to staff members of agricultural research and development (ARD) organisations, many of them still seem to regard agriculture – growing crops / trees and keeping livestock – as primarily the domain of men. Still today, most scientists in research stations, teachers at universities or agricultural colleges, and advisors in agricultural …
Although the NaviNut (Enhancing women’s agency in navigating changing food environments to improve child nutrition in African drylands) project is still relatively young, with the fieldwork having started only in late 2020, several partners presented posters or gave oral presentations at the international Tropentag conference on 15–17 September 2021. The Tropentag is an interdisciplinary, science-based …
NaviNut project active at Tropentag 2021 in Germany Read More »
Participants in the NaviNut LI/PID training in Marsabit (Photo: Diba Tari) Prolinnova–Kenya (PK) conducted a training on promoting local innovation (LI) and participatory innovation development (PID) for stakeholders of the NaviNut project in Marsabit County, Northern Kenya. NaviNut is a three-year project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Agriculture (BMEL), implemented by a …
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In 2017–18, Chesha Wettasinha from the International Support Team (IST), based at KIT (Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam), worked together with Mona Dhamankar, also from KIT, in developing guidelines for gender analysis in local innovation development (GALID). This initiative was supported by FAO and supervised by Susan Kaaria, Senior Gender Officer, Social Policies and Rural Institutions …
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In September 2019, Chesha Wettasinha, a member of the Prolinnova International Support Team was in Kenya on a field visit. She was inspired by the farmer innovators she met and how they are making positive change in their communities. Read her account here.
Module on Gender in PID This one-day module provides guidance to trainers and facilitators who are handling sessions on gender issues in PID. The module includes session guides, activity guides, handouts and reading materials that can be used directly or adapted to fit the context in which PID is taking place. Gender in Participatory Innovation …
by Brigid Letty & Ann Waters-Bayer (PDF File 1,694KB)
by Zsofia Anna Bossanyi (PDF file; size : 5.2 MB)
South Africa: Doing gender in an indigenous fruit processing project in South Africa: (PDF File; size: 2,440 KB) Ethiopia: Gender analysis in participatory innovation development: the case of enset bacterial wilt in Amaro Special Woreda, Southern Ethiopia (PDF File; size: 689 KB) Niger: Joint experimentation of women innovation of fish smoking in Banda, Niger (PDF …
Presentations at gender workshop in Uganda – November 2008 Read More »
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