Competency Framework for Integrating Gender and Nutrition within Agricultural Extension Services

Author: Robb Davis, Edye Kuyper, Andrea Bohn, Cristina Manfre, Sandra Russo, Deborah Rubin , 2017

Competency Framework for Integrating Gender and Nutrition within Agricultural Extension Services, Robb Davis, Edye Kuyper, Andrea Bohn, Cristina Manfre, Sandra Russo, Deborah Rubin, 2017

The INGENAES capacity development activities are intended to build gender-responsive, nutrition-sensitive skills among organizations providing agricultural extension services (AES). The objectives are to enable these organizations to identify and equip staff with the appropriate skills to deliver services that lead to improved gender- and nutrition-related outcomes; and to establish a set of gender-responsive, nutrition-sensitive AES practices that substantially and effectively strengthen gender equity and improve nutrition outcomes. 

What types of skills, attitudes, and behaviors (SAB)1 are necessary to enable institutions to deliver gender- and nutrition-informed services? 

The SABs needed at the individual level require a supportive environment that enables individual extension workers to employ the SABs. Such a supportive environment consists of technically correct training, supportive supervision, and appropriate incentives to encourage SAB deployment by staff. 

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