Gender considerations in designing agricultural extension programs
Endeley, J.; Tetebo, R.
Achieving greater impact from research investments in Africa Proceedings of the workshop developing African agriculture achieving greater impact from research investments held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 26-30 September 1995: 150-165
1996
Document Number: 239298
An overview is presented of the concepts 'gender' and 'gender issues', to ease the contextualization of gender issues in agricultural extension services. Subsequent discussion focuses on major gender issues in agriculture and agricultural extension services; the identification of critical areas for gender consideration in the extension programming process; and illustration of benefits (in qualitative and quantitative terms) due to gender-sensitive agricultural extension services. Examples from Ghana and Cameroon reveal measures that extension services and agents have taken in order to address gender issues in agricultural extension programme design, implementation and evaluation.