Community conversations: a community-based approach to transform gender relations and improve livestock management practices is adopted by research and development actors in Ethiopia

Community conversations, developed jointly by ICARDA and ILRI, have resulted in successful behavior change and transformation of gender relations at household and community levels amongst 1,600 farmers in Ethiopia. Local service providers, local government and a large-scale development program have...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: CGIAR Research Program on Livestock
Formato: Case Study
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/121512
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Sumario:Community conversations, developed jointly by ICARDA and ILRI, have resulted in successful behavior change and transformation of gender relations at household and community levels amongst 1,600 farmers in Ethiopia. Local service providers, local government and a large-scale development program have expressed interest in adopting this participatory tool. A training of trainer module that includes livestock health management, gender and zoonotic disease risks has been developed to expand and facilitate uptake of community conversations into the national extension system.