2017-2018 GREAT Cereal Grains Course
GREAT participants practice research methods and tools during a field day on Day 7 of the GREAT Gender-responsive Cereals Breeding Course in August 2017.
Test out your learning with hands-on application
GREAT course participants and trainers interact with farmers as part of a field day to gain hands-on practice in using mixed-methods research tools.
Develop your professional skills with a GREAT course
GREAT trainer Brenda Boonabaana leads a session during the GREAT Gender-Responsive Cereal Grains Breeding course in August, 2017.
Gain Hands-On Field Experience with GREAT
Participants in the GREAT Gender-responsive Root, Tuber and Banana Breeding Course celebrate at the end of a day practicing field data collection in September, 2016.
Develop your professional network
Course participants celebrate a birthday, and connections formed across projects, disciplines and countries.
GREAT Roots, Tubers and Bananas Course
Participants and trainers meet with women from Ziroobwe, Uganda to conduct a sex-disagreggated focus group discussion during the September 2016 GREAT course for root, tuber and banana researchers.
GREAT co-PI's Margaret Mangheni (l) and Hale Tufan
Applications are now open for the GREAT Theme 4 Course! Find out more...
About GREAT
GREAT courses equip researchers to create more inclusive and effective agricultural systems by addressing the priorities of both women and men in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
GREAT delivers training to agricultural researchers from SSA in the theory and practice of gender-responsive research, seeking to increase opportunities for equitable participation and the sharing of benefits from agricultural research and improve the outcomes for smallholder women farmers, entrepreneurs, and farmer organizations across sub-Saharan Africa.
By building and engaging communities of researchers equipped with the skills, knowledge, and support systems to develop and implement gender-responsive projects, GREAT advances gender-responsiveness as the norm and standard for agricultural research.
GREAT is a collaboration between Cornell University in Ithaca, New York and Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda.
Why GREAT?
The GREAT course has enriched my understanding of gender inclusion
Bonaventure Aman Omondi - Epidemiologist, Burundi
How GREAT changed my thinking about gender-based constraints in agriculture
Losira Nasirumbi-Sanya - Social Scientist, Uganda
Latest Updates
Applications are now open for the GREAT Theme 4 Course!
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New Blog Articles:
- 13 January: Do qualitative gender research methods fit in breeding activities?
- 13 January: Meeting diverse gender training needs for practitioners: The power of successful customization
- 13 January: Overcoming the challenge of facilitating conversation between disciplines: GREAT trainer perspectives
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Upcoming Courses
GREAT Course 4: Gender-Responsive Plant Breeding
Week 1: 22-31 July 2019
Week 2: 13-17 January 2020
Application deadline extended to February 28th, 2019.
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A takeaway from the recent GREAT Training at @MakCAES: Misuse of the word 'empowerment' in daily conversations, and… https://t.co/HaAnOZZ8jg -
Meet Arshni Shandil, a researcher at the Centre for Pacific Crops and Trees (CePaCT), and read about how her crop r… https://t.co/BarqIfTJL9
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Methods for collecting time use data: how time constraints and tradeoffs may have negative consequences for women’s… https://t.co/rSBZjaVYlI