Training Material

Institutional Review and Planning Framework for Integrating Gender and Nutrition within Agricultural Extension Services

This framework is intended to help leaders of agencies providing extension services to examine their organizational mission (and the results implied by it), to analyze if and how the strategy of extension services helps them to accomplish their mission, and to confront key operational challenges faced in providing quality services. It is written as a workshop guide with practical steps to engage in this analysis. Of particular importance is how organizations can more fully integrate nutrition- and gender-responsive programming in their routine outreach efforts. The workshop guide comes in three parts:

• Manual
• Workbook
• Handouts

INGENAES Gender and Nutrition Facilitator's Manual (2016) by Jan Henderson and Kathleen Colverson

This facilitator’s guide has been used in Bangladesh, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Malawi on integrating gender within agricultural extension services. Useful for public, private, and NGO extension providers to strengthen their capacity to address gender in a transformative manner and to integrate nutrition sensitivity in designing and facilitating workshops and trainings for men and women farmers.

Activity sheets, to be used as job aides, have been developed for each of the seven major activities practiced during the training:

INGENAES Facilitator's Guide: Addressing Gender Issues in Agricultural Value Chains

This facilitator's guide outlines a sample workshop aiming to help participants understand key issues related to gender, extension and advisory services, and value chains; understand principles of integrating gender analysis into value chain programs; be able to conduct a gender analysis of agricultural value chain programs; and be able to identify how to design and monitor gender-equitable extension-related activities in value chain programs.

INGENAES Facilitator's Guide: Addressing Gender Issues in Technology Assessments

This facilitator's guide outlines a sample workshop in which participants learn to use the INGENAES technology assessment tools to understand how to ensure agricultural technologies respond to the different needs of men and women farmers. In this workshop, participants will understand key issues related to gender, extension and advisory services, and agricultural technologies; understand principles of integrating gender analysis into technology design, use, and dissemination; and be able to conduct a preliminary gender analysis of agricultural technologies.

Participatory Training for Adult Learners Guide by Rebecca J. Williams

This manual was created as part of the Gender and Development Working Group's grant for training workshops related to participatory training of adult learners. A work-in-progress manual that can be modified to fit the subject matter, content, and needs of the trainer.

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Family and Nutrition Guide

A set of 14 fact sheets to help households improve feeding and nutrition practices divided into 11 topics that cover basic nutrition, family food security, meal planning, food hygiene, and specific feeding needs.

Nutrition, Food Security and Livelihoods: basic concepts

This brief interactive module addresses the basic terms and concepts relating to food and nutrition, malnutrition, food security and livelihoods.

Agreeing on causes of malnutrition for joint action

This module guides you through the simulation of a workshop process in the fictional country of Namambar. You will learn how to use a methodology based on malnutrition problem-and-solution trees to support joint planning for combating food insecurity and malnutrition, and building resilience. Available in English and French.

Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Programming

This comprehensive three-hour course is explicitly designed to support the Feed the Future nutrition-sensitive agricultural programming guidance. Developed by the Bureaus for Food Security and Global Health, the course introduces the fundamentals of nutrition-sensitive agriculture and provides guidelines for practitioners to use when designing programs that promote access to nutrient-rich foods and dietary diversity.

Designing for Behavior Change: For Agriculture, Natural Resource Management, and Gender from Food Security and Nutrition Network (FSN)

This field-tested, six-day curriculum enables private voluntary organizations (PVOs) and partners to replicate the Designing for Behavior Change (DBC) workshop conducted with CORE Group members in multiple countries and regions around the globe. FSN Resource Library

On Gender-sensitive Training

An explanation behind gender-sensitive training methodology.

See also the International Livestock Research Institute's training manual, "Closing the Gender Gap" from April 2013. View more.

TOOLKITS

Gender Toolkits

Toolkits developed to assist researchers and practitioners who are new or unfamiliar with using mixed methods for gender and assets data collection and analysis, including definitions of key concepts and methods for collection, analysis, and dissemination, drawing from first-hand insights (opportunities and challenges) from previous research projects and case studies (IFPRI).

ICT Toolkits The GSMA mWomen and mAgri programs' Mobile Agricultural Services Toolkit is for mobile operators, other mobile providers, and development practitioners to better serve women in this segment. It includes recommendations and tools for each stage of the product development process, as well as examples of good practices.