Adapting the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index to include rights can improve assessment of empowerment

A strategy combining activities that will simultaneously enhance livelihood and rights capabilities of target beneficiaries of development interventions appears to be a most  effective way of empowering women. The strategy is also applicable for other marginalized groups. This strategy was the focus of discussions at a day-long workshop on integrating rights into livestock microcredit and … Continue reading »

Policymakers and program managers equipped to spearhead gender mainstreaming in their organizations

Onn 19-20 March 2012 a group of policymakers and program managers from the Ministry of Livestock Development (MOLD) and the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) Kenya Livestock program, converged at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) for a gender and livestock training workshop. The workshop was officially opened by the director … Continue reading »

Women’s empowerment in all its dimensions

The new year brings about new beginnings and opportunities. A new project titled ‘Evaluating the impacts of livestock and aquaculture microcredit and value chain programs on women’s empowerment’ held its official inception workshop on 12 January 2011. This project aims to improve the impacts of livelihood programs on women and their households by integrating two critical … Continue reading »

Advancing agri-practice: Adding value for women

The ‘Advancing agri-practice: Adding value for women’ workshop was held at the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya on 23-24 May, 2011. Cosponsored by the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) and the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), this event provided a unique forum for practitioners and researchers working on agricultural … Continue reading »