Mak GREAT Project Hosts 1st ToT Course On New ProWEAI Tool 2019
Makerere University Gender-Responsive Researchers Equipped for Agricultural Transformation (GREAT) Project hosted the first Trainers of Trainers( ToT) course on the new tool dubbed, “Project specific Women Empowerment in Agriculture Index (ProWEAI)” that measures women empowerment and disempowerment in agricultural projects.
The three-day training (23rd-25th October 2019) held at Forest Cottages in Bukoto, a Kampala Suburb, attracted over 30 participants composed of the GREAT Fellows from Sub-Saharan Africa who have gone through the different cohorts, Makerere University Faculty and GREAT Trainers.
The program manager, ProWEAIIFIPRI Ms. Ara Go said the training is part of the capacity building effort.
“The training at Makerere University is part of the bigger capacity building efforts in GAAP2 and, GREAT is our partner conducting and doing this together to build capacity of researchers in Africa. So we partnered together and developed this Trainer of Trainers course. We are happy to be here at Makerere with GREAT and the participants have been very great”, She said.
She said this first training provides basic skills to the participants and many more will be conducted to fill the capacity needs.After the training the participants become fellows in a community of practice and can consult one another.
Related articles about the tool and GAAP project can be accessed on the links below:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.06.018