The INGENAES project and UFAAS together are hosting the Regional Symposium March 13 - 15, 2018, in Kampala, to bring together extension stakeholders to discuss and deliberate on promoting gender and nutrition sensitive agricultural extension. The symposium will:
Explore and showcase successes, challenges, lessons learned
Reinforce learnings on specific strategies and methods
Strengthen the extension gender and nutrition community of practice in Uganda
Emphasize and advocate to Government and donors to prioritize gender and nutrition integration within extension
Topics of Interest include:
Innovative and effective tools and approaches to strengthen EAS
Building capacity of institutions to better respond to male and female farmers needs
Youth involvement and Agripreneurship in Agricultural Extension
Technologies or ICT that improve women’s agricultural productivity and enhance household nutrition
Event hosted by:
USAID Funded Integrating Gender and Nutrition within Agricultural Extension Services (INGENAES) Project
Uganda Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services
To register, follow https://ingenaes-east-africa-regional-symposium.eventbrite.com
Event date:
Monday, 12th March 2018 - 8:00am to Thursday, 15th March 2018 - 5:00pm
Venue: Hotel Africana Kampala
Contact person:
Ms Maria Jones at mjones10@illinois.edu and Ms Beatrice Luzobe at ufaas2013@gmail.com