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Gender Training in Kenya

Helping Agriculture, Business and Environment Office and Partners Identify Gender Challenges and Opportunities

Kenyan women weeding flower fields, Eldoret, Kenya. Credit: dTS

Building on the concept implemented in Peru, the GATE/Kenya training was designed to provide a collaborative workshop with USAID/Kenya's Agriculture, Business and Environment Office (ABEO) team and their implementing partners.

Together, they identified gender challenges in their economic growth and natural resource programs, and assessed opportunities for augmenting the impact of projects on men and women.

Workshop Customized to Kenyan Realities and Participants' Experience

The activities conducted during the training were prepared after extensive, detailed research on the Kenya program and the role of women in the economy. They build on participant's knowledge of challenges they face in their own projects in order to identify solutions and opportunities that can be easily integrated into their current portfolio of activities.

Gender Integration Opportunities

Participants learned to identify gender integration opportunities (GIOs) in their programs through a series of brainstorming exercises. GIOs are actions that can be taken by project managers and staff to reduce gender-related barriers and maximize opportunities, and/or improve women's (or men's) status. The nature of these opportunities can differ depending on whether they intend to adjust or program activities, or provide program support.

For example, during the GATE/Kenya training, participants identified program adjustment GIOs such as:

• capacity-building for women's marketing groups;
• family business and budgeting training; and
• promoting women-friendly crops and technologies
.

For the program support GIOs, participants recommended:

• identifying a gender focal point;
• changing reporting requirements to capture gender-related or sex-disaggregated data; and/or
• conducting exchange visits to learn about the diversity of gender challenges in different projects and regions.

Training Materials

Gender Assessment of Sustainable Conservation - Oriented Enterprises: Preliminary Findings11/1/2007 (418KB)

Gender Training Materials: Integrating Gender into USAID/Kenya's Programs for Agriculture, Business and the Envionrment09/01/2007 (1.1MB)

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