GREAT Blog
23 July 2019
Note: In late November, 2018, GREAT hosted its first Custom Course in Kampala, a six-day training for advanced teams from the Tropical Legumes III (TLIII) project. This blog is a continuation in a series on the training, kicked off with a post from ICRISAT gender scientist Esther Njuguna-Mungai,... more
23 July 2019
Note: this is the second in a series of blogs related to the first GREAT Custom Course, created for the Tropical Legumes III project in November 2018. The first blog in this series is available here.
When ICRISAT asked us to run our 14-day Gender-Responsive Plant Breeding course for scientists... more
23 July 2019
Note: this blog was originally posted on the Tropical Legumes III project site, and is the first in a series of blogs related to the first GREAT Custom Course, created for the Tropical Legumes III project in November 2018.
In a world where ‘gender integration’ or ‘gender mainstreaming’ is... more
15 July 2019
The Makerere training team had a retreat from 17th to 18th June, 2019. Attended by eleven team members, the retreat was held at the idyllic Malakai Eco-lodge in Kitende, Wakiso, Uganda. The purpose of the retreat was to build training capacity and engage in team building. It came at an opportune... more
15 July 2019
New GREAT trainers
Over the last three years, the GREAT management at Makerere University has endeavored to build a critical mass of trainers capable of delivering the GREAT course even beyond the project life time in 2020. With this in mind, we are pleased to welcome four brilliant new trainers to... more
12 July 2019
Thanks to the travel sponsorship I got from the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research, I was able to attend to the Seeds of Change conference in Canberra, Australia, in April 2019. The conference contributed to a new chapter of the long journey that I started in 2016 as gender-... more
03 July 2019
My journey with the Gender-responsive Researchers Equipped for Agricultural Transformation (GREAT) Project has been full of surprises and beautiful moments.
It all started in 2016, when I joined the GREAT Theme 1 course that brought together biophysical and social scientists focusing on Gender-... more
19 June 2019
A year ago, Esther Chelule wasn’t involved in managing her family’s wheat farm in Kenya – she felt that was “men’s work,” something left to her husband. Now, after participating in farmer trainings to facilitate cooperation between married couples on the farm, the dynamics of their household have... more
13 June 2019
The fourth GREAT course is set to begin the last week of July in Kampala, Uganda. This new approach to the course will offer unique learning and research opportunities, and allow GREAT to expand its impact across the globe.
Since 2016, Makerere University and Cornell University have worked... more
29 May 2019
Evaluation methods for projects that aim to build human capacity and change behaviors and attitudes can be complex. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has produced a document that outlines impact assessment, which is only one of the forms such programs may be evaluated. We... more