The document outlines a project in the Ethiopian highlands focusing on improving nutrition and gender equity through research and community engagement. It details key research activities, partnerships, and plans for phase II, including capacity building, seasonal assessments, and the development of gender-sensitive interventions. The outputs are aimed at informing policy and enhancing food security and dietary diversity among targeted populations.

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Africa RISING in the Ethiopian Highlands
Core partners
How would this continue in Phase II
• Build nutrition capacity/advocacy for experts and communities
to promote dietary diversification
• Conduct seasonal household nutrition assessments
• Strengthen nutrition research team (IP networks)
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Current partnerships and future
engagements for scaling
• Current: Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA),
Universities, national and regional agricultural research centers, woreda
agricultural offices, farmers and national animal health laboratory.
• Future scaling: Engage more research and development agencies and
communities
Gender and Nutrition Research
Annet Abenakyo Mulema, Mariama Fofanah, Zelalem Lema, Biruk Alemu Gemeda and Barbara Wieland
Implications of the research outputs
for generating development outcomes
• Evidence generated will guide Africa RISING R4D activities
• Provides a synopsis of nutrition problems prevalent in the
community
• Inform policy and interventions that improve under five
nutrition status, HH dietary diversity, food security and crop
diversity
Nutrition key research activities
• Nutrition and food security baseline assessment
• Nutrition status of children under five
• Household and individual dietary diversity
• Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices (KAPS)
• Crop diversification production patterns
• Nutrition Training Manuals Developed (Amharic and English)
Gender key research activities
• Examine women’s participation in and benefit from research
• Gender capacity assessment and development
• Characterize gender-based constraints and opportunities
• Prioritize small ruminant diseases (SR), their socio-economic impact
on household members and transmission pathways
Fig 1 Priority disease categories by gender
Implications of the research outputs for
generating development outcomes
• Foster gender equitable access to and control of productive assets
and resources,
• Development of technologies that reduce women’s labor
• Improve capacity of women and young people to participate in
decision making
• Inform gender-sensitive SR disease control and prevention programs
How would this continue in Phase II
• Apply the transformative household methodology
• Implement gender-sensitive animal health interventions e.g.
trainings
• Include animal health issues in innovation platforms
Current partnerships and future
engagements for scaling
• Kebele level- health extension workers, development agents 1-5
women and men development army representatives.
• Woreda level –University, Agricultural Research Centre,
Agriculture and Health Offices.
• National level – Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI), ICRISAT,
CIP and ILRI
• Future Scaling – Local research teams in Lemo and Endamehoni,
NGOs and government projects (AGP/SLM)
Findings
37%
6% 12%
25% 21%
46%
96%
32%
47%53%
5%
18% 21%
10%
51%
88%
32%
44%
0%
50%
100%
150%
Fig 1 Nutrition and food groups indicators between
Africa RISING participating and non-participating
farmers
Participants Non Participants
Findings
• Women affected most then men, children, youth F and youth M