Gender & PID – Prolinnova

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Chesha Wettasinha – c.wettasinha@kit.nl

Ann Waters-Bayer – waters-bayer@web.de

NaviNut: Promoting women’s innovation in child-feeding in Benin & Kenya

28. July 2025 28. July 2025 / NaviNut Project

The project NaviNut “Enhancing women’s agency in navigating changing food environments to improve child nutrition in African drylands” (Sept 2020–Oct 2023, extended with additional budget to December 2024 and for final reporting to June 2025) took a transdisciplinary research approach: co-creating knowledge across different scientific disciplines and societal stakeholders. The German Institute for Tropical and …

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About Gender & PID

2. October 2022 17. December 2022 / Gender & PID

Despite frequent gender-sensitivity training given to staff members of agricultural research and development (ARD) organisations, many of them still seem to regard agriculture – growing crops / trees and keeping livestock – as primarily the domain of men. Still today, most scientists in research stations, teachers at universities or agricultural colleges, and advisors in agricultural …

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Three NaviNut policy briefs

The NaviNut project “Enhancing women’s agency in navigating changing food environments to improve child nutrition in African drylands”, which took a transdisciplinary approach to research & development – co-creation of innovations by local people and scientists from different scientific disciplines – has brought out three policy briefs: Strengthening women’s role and agency Mothers’ contribution to …

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NaviNut project completed – see the many outputs!

28. July 2025 17. September 2025 / NaviNut Project, Benin Country Platform, News & Events, Kenya Country Platform

In June 2025, the NaviNut project “Enhancing women’s agency in navigating changing food environments to improve child nutrition in African drylands” finalised its report to the funder: the German Federal Ministry of Food & Agriculture (BMEL). NaviNut took a transdisciplinary approach to research & development: co-creation of innovations by local people and scientists from different …

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NaviNut action research featured in March 2025 issue of Appropriate Technology

23. April 2025 23. July 2025 / NaviNut Project, Benin Country Platform, News & Events, Kenya Country Platform

The highly collaborative approach taken by the NaviNut project in Benin and Kenya integrated the knowledge of agropastoralist women about caring for young children with the knowledge of local food processors and community healthworkers and the knowledge of African and German researchers in various disciplines. NaviNut engaged in action research in which the local women …

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Final NaviNut workshop / Atelier final de NaviNut

27. November 2024 27. November 2024 / NaviNut Project, Benin Country Platform, News & Events, Kenya Country Platform

The closing workshop of the NaviNut transdisciplinary research project, under the banner of “Together for Better Child Nutrition”, was held on 5–7 November 2024 in Marsabit in northern Kenya. This was an opportunity for the Kenyan and German researchers and the local Kenyan women involved in the project to share their results with various other …

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International Farmer Innovation Fair and NaviNut project featured in Appropriate Technology

3. November 2024 25. July 2025 / NaviNut Project, Farmer Innovation Fair, News & Events, Kenya Country Platform

The September 2024 issue of the Appropriate Technology (AT) magazine featured two articles on Prolinnova activities: International Farmer Innovation Fair: a platform for promoting local innovation, by Vincent Mariadho & Brigid Letty, with photos by Janish Wettasinha (AT 51(3): 36-39) “We share knowledge until one becomes an expert” – learning through the eyes of local …

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Articles from Benin & Ghana in June 2024 issue of Appropriate Technology

22. July 2024 23. July 2025 / NaviNut Project, Benin Country Platform, News & Events, Ghana Country Platform

Two articles were published in June 2024 in the Prolinnova section of the Appropriate Technology magazine (Vol 51, No. 2): Action funds stimulate mutual learning about child nutrition in Benin by Paul Jimmy, Honorat Edja, Brigitte Kaufmann & Ann Waters-Bayer Ghanaian experience in helping women farmers improve sales of a local innovation by Joseph Nchor …

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African Partners Workshop + SULCI-FaNS/Proli-GEAFaSa workshops Oct 2022

2. February 2023 23. July 2025 / NaviNut Project, West & Central Africa, Innovation in Food & Nutrition Security Proli-FaNS / SULCI-FaNS / ELI-FaNS, Eastern & Southern Africa, PID in water management, News & Events

On 10–14 October 2022, the biennial Prolinnova African Partners Workshop (AfPW) was held back-to-back with the final workshops of the Proli-GEAFaSa and SULCI-FaNS projects. Prolinnova–Kenya, coordinated by World Neighbors, hosted the three events. Also representatives from the NaviNut project in Benin were invited to join the AfPW in Kenya; this provided an opportunity for exchange …

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NaviNut partners at Tropentag 2022 conference in Prague

29. September 2022 29. September 2022 / NaviNut Project, Benin Country Platform, News & Events, Kenya Country Platform

Prolinnova network members from Benin and Kenya involved in NaviNut, a project under the Prolinnova umbrella, took part in the Tropentag 2022 (TT22) held in Prague, Czech Republic, on 15–18 Sept 2022. The “Tropentag” (German for “Tropical Day”) is an annual international conference on research in tropical and subtropical agriculture and rural development. TT22 was …

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Local food fair for joint learning on child nutrition

24. August 2022 24. April 2024 / NaviNut Project, Benin Country Platform, News & Events

An article on “Local food fair for joint learning on child nutrition“, reporting on work in the NaviNut project in northern Benin, was published in June 2022 in the Appropriate Technology magazine.

NaviNut project active at Tropentag 2021 in Germany

11. October 2021 28. July 2025 / NaviNut Project, News & Events

Although the NaviNut (Enhancing women’s agency in navigating changing food environments to improve child nutrition in African drylands) project is still relatively young, the fieldwork having started only in late 2020, several partners presented posters or gave oral presentations at the international Tropentag conference on 15–17 Sept 2021. The Tropentag is an interdisciplinary, science-based and …

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