Kenya gender strategy: Building equitable climate-resilient African bean & insect sectors
The Building Equitable Climate-Resilient African Bean and Insect Sectors (BRAINS) project is a multi-country initiative operating across 15 Sub-Saharan African countries, including Kenya. BRAINS aims to foster low-carbon, climate-resilient agrifood systems in the bean, fruit tree, and insect sectors...
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| author | Wambua, Scholastica Karanja, David Lutomia, Cosmas Nyamolo, Victor Ouya, Frederick Ketema, Dessalegn Nchanji, Eileen |
| author_browse | Karanja, David Ketema, Dessalegn Lutomia, Cosmas Nchanji, Eileen Nyamolo, Victor Ouya, Frederick Wambua, Scholastica |
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| description | The Building Equitable Climate-Resilient African Bean and Insect Sectors (BRAINS) project is a multi-country initiative operating across 15 Sub-Saharan African countries, including Kenya. BRAINS aims to foster low-carbon, climate-resilient agrifood systems in the bean, fruit tree, and insect sectors by equitably enhancing climate resilience among women and youth, scaling the adoption of climate-smart agriculture technologies, and building a pipeline of gender-responsive, climate-resilient enterprises aligned with emerging climate finance goals.
Across participating countries, gender disparities remain pronounced, with women and youth disproportionately affected by climate change and constrained by limited access to land, technologies, training, and decision-making spaces. In Kenya, qualitative findings reveal a strongly gendered division of labour across value chains. Women dominate bean production and post-harvest activities, men control marketing and income, fruit tree roles are more balanced, and insect farming shows emerging opportunities for youth engagement.
The BRAINS gender strategy responds to these challenges by mainstreaming gender equality across project design, implementation, and sustainability. Grounded in the Reach–Benefit–Empower–Transform framework, socio-technical innovation bundles, and the Youth and Women Quality Centre model, the strategy promotes inclusive participation, equitable benefits, and youth transitions into resilient agrifood system |
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| spelling | CGSpace1797242026-01-14T02:10:07Z Kenya gender strategy: Building equitable climate-resilient African bean & insect sectors Wambua, Scholastica Karanja, David Lutomia, Cosmas Nyamolo, Victor Ouya, Frederick Ketema, Dessalegn Nchanji, Eileen empowerment food security gender resilience bundling The Building Equitable Climate-Resilient African Bean and Insect Sectors (BRAINS) project is a multi-country initiative operating across 15 Sub-Saharan African countries, including Kenya. BRAINS aims to foster low-carbon, climate-resilient agrifood systems in the bean, fruit tree, and insect sectors by equitably enhancing climate resilience among women and youth, scaling the adoption of climate-smart agriculture technologies, and building a pipeline of gender-responsive, climate-resilient enterprises aligned with emerging climate finance goals. Across participating countries, gender disparities remain pronounced, with women and youth disproportionately affected by climate change and constrained by limited access to land, technologies, training, and decision-making spaces. In Kenya, qualitative findings reveal a strongly gendered division of labour across value chains. Women dominate bean production and post-harvest activities, men control marketing and income, fruit tree roles are more balanced, and insect farming shows emerging opportunities for youth engagement. The BRAINS gender strategy responds to these challenges by mainstreaming gender equality across project design, implementation, and sustainability. Grounded in the Reach–Benefit–Empower–Transform framework, socio-technical innovation bundles, and the Youth and Women Quality Centre model, the strategy promotes inclusive participation, equitable benefits, and youth transitions into resilient agrifood system 2025-12-18 2026-01-13T06:28:53Z 2026-01-13T06:28:53Z Report https://hdl.handle.net/10568/179724 en Open Access application/pdf Wambua, S.; Karanja, D.; Lutomia, C.; Nyamolo, V.; Ouya, F.; Ketema, D.; Nchanji, E. (2025) Kenya gender strategy: Building equitable climate-resilient African bean & insect sectors. 18 p. |
| spellingShingle | empowerment food security gender resilience bundling Wambua, Scholastica Karanja, David Lutomia, Cosmas Nyamolo, Victor Ouya, Frederick Ketema, Dessalegn Nchanji, Eileen Kenya gender strategy: Building equitable climate-resilient African bean & insect sectors |
| title | Kenya gender strategy: Building equitable climate-resilient African bean & insect sectors |
| title_full | Kenya gender strategy: Building equitable climate-resilient African bean & insect sectors |
| title_fullStr | Kenya gender strategy: Building equitable climate-resilient African bean & insect sectors |
| title_full_unstemmed | Kenya gender strategy: Building equitable climate-resilient African bean & insect sectors |
| title_short | Kenya gender strategy: Building equitable climate-resilient African bean & insect sectors |
| title_sort | kenya gender strategy building equitable climate resilient african bean insect sectors |
| topic | empowerment food security gender resilience bundling |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/179724 |
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