Event Date: Nov 16, 2016
Time: 09:30 AM to 11:00 AM (GMT -5)
Location: United States
Online: Online Event
Event Links: Webinar Recording
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Extension professionals are fully committed to improving rural livelihoods and strengthening communities, but there is still a great need across the board to better integrate gender and nutrition into their services. Integrated development projects have become the norm, but the fact still remains that simple, evidence-based, ready-to-use materials are extremely difficult to access.
Join our next Ag Sector Council event, where the Integrating Gender and Nutrition within Agricultural Extension Services (INGENAES) project is addressing this challenge and presenting concrete approaches that will enable participants to:
- Identify gaps in existing services and develop ways to better integrate gender and nutrition
- Identify how more strategic work in these areas will cause greater impact
- Propose strategies to improve delivery of quality services
- Develop mutually-beneficial partnerships
- Enhance existing gender equity and improved nutrition contributions
Experts will engage participants in the new Institutional Review and Planning Framework and training-of-trainers activities. In addition, participants will have the opportunity to share their experience with institutional capacity development and how they’ve been able to motivate change related to gender and nutrition.
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Breaking Barriers: Integrating Gender and Nutrition Into Extension Services
Edye Kuyper provides nutrition leadership to the INGENAES project, which integrates gender and nutrition within agricultural extension services. In this role, Edye supports public and NGO agricultural extension providers in Zambia... more to better integrate gender and nutrition. She is also working to improve global partner coordination in order to advance the role that agricultural extension can play in supporting better food systems and nutrition outcomes. Raised on a farm in Vermont, Edye served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in rural Mauritania. In addition to her work with global agriculture and nutrition, Edye has 10 years’ experience with local and statewide community-based nutrition education and food security projects that engage low-income U.S. households. Edye holds an M.S. in International Agricultural Development from UC Davis. Prior to joining the INGENAES project, she worked at the UC Davis World Food Center, and the Program in International and Community Nutrition with Alive & Thrive Small Grants Program. less
Andrea Bohn is the associate director of the Integrating Gender and Nutrition within Agricultural Extension Services (INGENAES) project and the project manager for the Modernizing Extension and Advisory Services (MEAS) Project,... more both funded by USAID. Bohn is stationed at the University of Illinois. Andrea has worked in the field of international development for the past two decades, including working at CIMMYT in Mexico and applying her skills at in curricular reform and innovation in Agricultural Sciences at the University of Hohenheim in her home country of Germany. Before coming on board as the manager of the MEAS project, she ran international education programs for students at the University of Illinois. Andrea’s experience spans many country lines, with strong connections in Southeast Asia, parts of Africa, Latin America, and Europe. She has worked with extension implementers, policy makers, and extensionists worldwide through the USAID-funded MEAS project, connecting people with resources and training for strengthening agricultural growth and sustainability. less
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Will be nice if Ms Kuyper or Bohn can get in touch via
[email protected]
to explore on rolling out the program to all 4 corners of global to reach the last mile resident in rural or urban
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