Project start-up workshop report : women rear project, dates : 22nd April 2021, venue : Bawku municipality
The report outlines project objectives, and the inception presentation to 30 participants regarding institutional requirements towards a vaccine delivery system responsive to women farmers and animal health providers. The project started in March 2019, but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Particulars of the baseline study were reviewed, which so far involves 500 women livestock keepers and 100 men. Participant questions provided new insight into project and participant needs, capacity building, and community partnerships.
Auteur ou autrice(s) : Duut, Samuel, Eliasu, Abdulai, Agnes, Loriba
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National consultative workshop on vaccine supply chain
The National consultative workshop on building resilient livestock vaccine supply chain is a key activity under the Women Rear project being jointly implemented by Care Ghana, Cowtribe Technology, and the International Livestock Research Institute. The 2-day workshop was jointly organised by Cowtribe technology and Care Ghana in Tamale from 9th to 10 March 2022. The goal of this workshop was to understand how to build a public-private partnership for vaccine delivery in Ghana. The workshop brought together twenty-two participants drawn from both government and private actor. Indeed, the full complement of the participants was a complete representation of the entire value chain, from government officials, civil servant staff, policy officials (Management and Functional level), analysts/specialists in PPPs, veterinary practitioners, commercial companies (service providers, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and distributors, technology providers, etc.) to livestock producers associations.
Auteur ou autrice(s) : Bawah, Alima
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Women’s empowerment and livestock vaccination : evidence from Peste des Petits Ruminants vaccination interventions in Northern Ghana
Healthy livestock provide meaningful opportunities to enhance women’s empowerment (WE) in low-and middle-income countries. Animal vaccines are important to keep livestock healthy and productive. However, gender-based restrictions limit women’s access to animal health services, thereby affecting the potential of livestock to enhance their empowerment. While growing empirical evidence reveals that women-controlled livestock (e.g., small ruminants) have important implications for WE and support better household nutrition outcomes, little empirical evidence exists from rigorous analyses of the relationship between WE and animal vaccines for women-controlled livestock species. Our analysis explores the relationship between WE and involvement with PPR vaccination in Ghana. Data collected using the Women’s Empowerment in Livestock Index (WELI) tool from 465 women and 92 men farmers (who keep goats) from northern Ghana, and analyzed using PLSSEM, revealed a significant direct positive association between knowledge about animal health and PPR vaccines and a significant indirect positive association between access to PPR vaccines and empowerment. The empowerment of women goat farmers, as revealed by our model’s results for the relationship between empowerment and vaccine facets, was significantly represented by asset ownership and input into decisions concerning livestock. These study results reveal important considerations in designing effective and equitable livestock vaccine systems.
Auteur ou autrice(s) : Omondi, Immaculate, Galiè, Alessandra, Teufel, Nils, Loriba, Agnes, Kariuki, Eunice, Baltenweck, Isabelle
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Transforming the vaccine delivery system for chickens and goats in Ghana : what approaches and what benefits for women?
This conference presentation outlines the goals and research questions of the research study on vaccines and empowerment of women. It covers the project interventions, the short, medium, and long-term impacts, the study methods, and some of the resulting data. It also offers some observation drawn from the results.
Auteur ou autrice(s) : Galiè, Alessandra, Omondi, Immaculate
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Langage : Anglais
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Sensitization on Newcastle disease
The symptoms and effects of Newcastle disease in chickens and guinea fowl (often raised by women farmers) are described in this material. The “Women Rear” (women rearing livestock) project seeks to reduce drastically and possibly prevent entirely, the outbreak of Newcastle disease by vaccinating with Newcastle vaccines, readily deliverable as eye drops. This three-page information package provides details and costs. Newcastle disease, caused by the paramyxovirus, is highly contagious and can cause up to 100% mortality in birds.
Auteur ou autrice(s) : Ahmed, Hajara
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Peste des petits (PPR) vaccination campaign (2021) : women rear project
Livestock vaccines are more accessible to male farmers partly due to existing gender inequalities, inadequate veterinary technicians, and the lack of female veterinarians. The Women Rear Project aims to determine what is necessary to develop a vaccine delivery system that improves the livelihood of women farmers rearing livestock. Under the peste des petits (PPR) vaccination campaign most of the 1,523 participants were women farmers (99%). This policy brief outlines the project activities and challenges. Findings show that the successful implementation of women’s livelihood improvement programs requires men/husbands’ engagement.
Auteur ou autrice(s) : Hajara, Ahmed, Alimah, Bawa
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Gender activities for women rear project
The plan for women rearing livestock (the Women Rear Project) profiles activities shared among team sectors addressing: Activities and targets at the village level; Partners; Gender Champions; and Traditional Authorities. Tools from the Social Analysis and Action (SAA) manual and from the farmer field and business school (FFBS) manual will be used; tools on human rights education will be adapted to suit the project’s context, such as human rights, human values, and women’s rights. From discussions it was noted that 687 women (representing 97% of those surveyed) stated they could not build or own animal pens; and “men are the owners and overlords” of family homes by tradition.
Auteur ou autrice(s) : Atia, Gladys
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Women’s empowerment in livestock business index (WELBI) : pilot project results
The development of the WELBI index is explained in this brief presentation. Indicators and how they are used in the Women’s Empowerment in Livestock Business Index (WELBI) are provided. Some indicator categories are: Contributions to Empowerment (such as Autonomy in income, Self-efficacy, Attitudes towards domestic violence, and many others); Adequacy by Indicators (and how they are used); Menstrual Hygiene Management; Additional Indicators (such as Urination facility, Defecation facility, Handwashing facility, and others, such as Access to Information).
Auteur ou autrice(s) : Galiè, Alessandra, Njiru, Nelly
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Social analysis and action (SAA) : in food and nutrition security programming
The manual has compiled and developed Social Analysis and Action (SAA) training modules related to indicators of the domains of change for women’s empowerment in agriculture: Gender; Production; Resources; Income; Leadership; Time; Women as Farmers and Value for their Triple Roles; Gender-Based Violence, Prevention and Support; and Family Planning. The goal is to increase productivity and empowerment of women farmers in more equitable agriculture systems at scale. SAA is a facilitated process through which individuals and communities explore and challenge social and gender norms, beliefs, and practices, that shape their lives and are at the root of the development problems.
Auteur ou autrice(s) : Abinet, Tasew, Berhane, Addisalem, Demmelash, Feteh, Hilegebrile, Mekbib, Demissie, Meseret
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Women’s empowerment in livestock business (WELBI)
Empowering women alongside men as decision-makers in all phases of livestock value chains as well as within households, is central to reducing poverty. The Women Empowerment in Livestock Index (WELI) combines both qualitative and quantitative approaches to measure the empowerment of women involved in livestock raising, integrating business (economic) and household spheres of livelihood into one tool. This paper describes the main results on women’s and men’s empowerment using the WELBI methodology, as well as how the index calculation was formulated. Women in the three study countries were found to have lower ‘adequacy rates’ in ownership of land and assets relative to male respondents.
Auteur ou autrice(s) : Alessandra, Galie, Nelly, Njiru
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Shepherd application
“Shepherd” is a cloud-based automation solution and software application designed to collect data and link farmers and field agents. This document outlines what the mobile application can do for small famers, while linking community producers. Field agents can record updates directly from the field as well as having access to produce and delivery information. Farmer bio data encompasses contact information, livestock and crop data, including transactions, along with the group the farmer belongs to. Livestock information is categorized into birds, small ruminants and cattle. “Campaigns” are the usual field activities scheduled to enable field technicians to deliver livestock vaccination activities to farmers at the community level.
Auteur ou autrice(s) : Alimah, Bawa, Hajara, Ahmed
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FFBS livestock toolkit : adapted farmer field and business school – livestock tools
Even though women play vital roles in livestock value chains, they are rarely recognized as livestock keepers and farmers, and veterinary services are less likely to reach them. This toolkit provides detailed training material for facilitators and extension workers who are introducing and implementing the farmer field and business school (FFBS). The material features animal husbandry, maintenance, and livestock rearing techniques, while including modules related to: role playing; case study stories; and scenario presentations that include aspects of gender discrimination and women’s (lack of) access to knowledge.
Auteur ou autrice(s) : Agnes, Loriba, Oswald, Dzordorme, Eliasu, Abdulai, Gladys, Atia
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Training guide on basic husbandry practices for chicken and goats production
The guide provides an outline of the training for project facilitators, women agricultural extension workers and veterinary agents. Trained field officers will carry out step-down training sessions for women livestock keepers and other farmers at the community level in two districts in Ghana. The outline provides information on proposed training, and modules for facilitating training in extension topics related to chicken and goat’s livestock production, husbandry, good practices, and animal health.
Auteur ou autrice(s) : Abdulai, Eliasu
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Scaling scan report : Ghana livestock vaccine innovation fund project
The report focuses on scaling the project in the most effective way to make a difference in uptake of vaccines. It analyzes details of the project ‘Transforming the vaccine delivery system in Ghana: identifying approaches that benefit women’ (also known as the Women Rear project - women rearing animals). The aim is to improve animal health care delivery to support women health service providers in reaching women livestock keepers, improving all farmers' livelihoods. From the current twenty communities it aims to add twenty more, targeting a total 4,000 women farmers. Women small livestock owners account for many of the rural poor.
Auteur ou autrice(s) : Kangethe, Edwin, Sartas, Murat, Dror, Iddo
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