GREAT

Photo: Devon Jenkins, Cornell University

Weave gender into your projects, from start to finish

GREAT equips teams to integrate gender into their project design, from proposal writing through to releasing varieties.

Participants pose for an lively group photo during a GREAT course

Learn effective mixed methods research

GREAT makes interdisciplinary reserach more effective, making it easier for biophysical and social scientists to collaborate across the entire research cycle.

GREAT Fellow Tessy Madu, center, with women cassava farmers in Nigeria

Deepen your gender research skills

GREAT training equips social scientists with gender-specific skills, allowing them to collect robust data and feed it back into project activities, leading to real results.

Photo Credit: Chris Knight, International Programs, CALS

Develop your professional network

Course participants celebrate a birthday, and connections formed across projects, disciplines and countries.

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.