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True mainstreaming.

Designed for projects and institutions, our custom courses bring GREAT to you.

With capacity building to create a critical mass, GREAT custom courses allow your organization or project to train larger groups of researchers in a cost-effective manner, helping effective gender-responsive research become the norm, not the exception. We’ll work with you to design the course that fits your needs.

GREAT Custom Courses are an investment in researcher capacity that leads to short- and long-term returns through enhanced collaboration between social and biophysical researchers, increased grant competitiveness through more informed project planning and budgeting, more successful varietal adoption through greater understanding of what all community members’ needs, and better outcomes for men, women and children.

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STRUCTURE

GREAT custom courses have key elements of the GREAT cohort course but allow for greater flexibility. The courses target mixes of social scientists and biophysical scientists conducting ongoing research into which they will immediately apply the gender skills they have acquired.

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GREAT has this unique combination of qualitative trainers, quantitative trainers and even the analytical thinking is actually quite unique....dealing with many teams over time, they’ve gained a competency around contextualizing gender issues that is quite unique that we should tap to as a community in development.

Esther Njuguna-MungaiGREAT Client, Tropical Legumes III Custom Course Gender Specialist, ICRISAT, Kenya
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With the rigorous training we had this week, I have a better understanding of the need to integrate gender into our breeding activities from pre-breeding to variety release stages. This will really help me come up with different crop varieties that will satisfy different market segments and increase the adoption rate of the future varieties.

Umar Mohammad LawanPlant Breeder, Institute for Agricultural Research, Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria

CUSTOM COURSES TO FIT YOUR NEEDS

With capacity building to create a critical mass, GREAT custom courses allow your organization or project to train larger groups of researchers in a cost-effective manner, helping effective gender-responsive research become the norm, not the exception. We’ll work with you to design the course that fits your needs. We have worked with agricultural research organizations around the world, including:

  • Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Legume Systems Research
  • Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Peanut
  • CGIAR Excellence in Agronomy
  • INERA
  • Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization
  • Nepal Agricultural Research Council
  • Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute
  • National Agricultural Research Institute (Uganda)
  • International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)
  • and more

Here are just a few of our custom course offerings:

Delivering Gender- and Youth-Responsive Agronomic Solutions

Training for CGIAR Excellence in Agronomy to integrate gender and youth considerations in their workflows

IRRI East Africa

A special gender-integration course for breeders and social scientists

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Is your institution or project ready to make effective gender-responsive research the norm? Reach out to Margaret Najjingo Mangheni to learn more about what GREAT can bring to your institution or project.

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