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"Two-Day MA-SHEP Gender ToT for Extension Staff Responsible for Target Farmer Groups in Implementing District Agriculture Offices (DAOs)" was conducted from Tuesday 8th to Friday 11th May, 2018.

Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development of Malawi puts importance on dialogues/discussions among family members for achieving gender equality within the household, and recognizes Household Approach (HHA) as an effective tool to facilitate dialogues/discussions among family members to make a family vision and find ways to achieve the vision and as a result, realize gender equality within the household. In MA-SHEP, we took "Visioning" and "Gender Balance Tree" among various HHA tools into MA-SHEP Package. Through these tools, we aim that the household members, both female and male should participate in farming helping each other.

In the workshop, the participants worked in group to make Visioning Map and Gender Balance Tree. During the group work, we could hear the sound of participants' laughing. One of the facilitators said that "Gender Training is not for forcing what we should do, but this is an opportunity to discuss how household members can be happy, thinking their own dream and vision. It's fun !"

The extension officers are going to conduct Gender Training to Target Farmer Groups from now on. We are looking forward to seeing their Visioning Map and Gender Balance Tree.

Facilitated by Ms. Mbeye, Gender Officer of Mchinji District

Facilitated by Ms. Nkhono, Gender Officer of Kasungu District

Group Work of "Gender Balance Tree"

Facilitated by Ms.Yamaguchi, JICA Senior Advisor of Gender and Development

Facilitated by Mr. Chaula, Assistant Chief Agriculture Extension Officer of Department of Agriculture Extension Services (DAES)

Facilitated by Mr. Yiwombe, Principal Agriculture Gender Roles and Extension Support Services Officer of Kasungu Agriculture Development Division

Mr. Chikomola was interviewed by Zodiak TV and Nation newspaper

Group Work of "Visioning"