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KIT is the Knowledge Management Focal Point for the partners in the 12 countries included in Land-at-Scale. As the Focal Point we also work to promote exchange between the partners across countries and regions, enhancing the learning within the programme at large.

The seed sector in South Sudan is currently dominated by seed aid. The A3-Seed project seeks to reduce the country’s dependency on foreign-sourced seeds, and humanitarian support, with the aim to transform the seed sector into a commercially viable one.  “The yield was not good” As part of the project, we recently held an event […]

Women living in cocoa growing communities in Côte d’Ivoire are disproportionately excluded from participating in cooperatives or benefiting from them. To address this gender inequality, a gender lens was applied to Rabo Partnership and Barry Callebaut’s ‘Empowering the Middle Program’. Specific entry points and activities were designed to promote women’s inclusion and elevate their status […]

KIT Royal Tropical Institute supported Climate Fund Managers (CFM) to integrate gender into their investment process. KIT conducted desk-based gender assessments of the renewable energy sector in 14 countries across African and Asia. Guided by this assessment, KIT worked with CFM to develop a gender integration action plan for CFM’s Climate Investor One financing facility. […]

This tailor-made programme strengthens the capacity of over 415 Nespresso agronomists across twenty countries to create deep structural changes for gender equality, known as gender transformative change. It covers three areas: 1) knowledge of gender transformative change 2) facilitation skills 3) self-reflection. It is aligned with Nespresso’s AAA Sustainable Quality™ Program, which is a unique initiative to […]

KIT, in consortium with the Maastricht School of Management, was hired to strengthen the capacity of the Women National Committee (WNC) to guide the mainstreaming of gender and provide leadership for the improvement of the status of women in Yemen. The project strengthened WNC’s capacity to mainstream gender and address women’s needs and interests in government […]

KIT Royal Tropical Institute was hired by the Dutch police to provide training on culture and gender to police and Marechaussee personnel who were deployed to countries where the Netherlands was contributing to peacekeeping missions – such as Mali, Kosovo and Afghanistan. Tailored training KIT developed a tailored training for Dutch police and Marechaussee personnel […]

KIT was part of a consortium working with the Research Institute for a Sustainable Environment (RISE) to establish a sustainable and practice-oriented agriculture training centre for male and female skilled labour. This aimed to contribute to the delivery of adequate training for the agricultural sector in Egypt. Best practice centre  RISE – formerly the Desert […]

At the request of Plan UK, KIT Royal Tropical Institute undertook this baseline study to identify the factors affecting access to and completion of lower secondary education by girls in Cambodia, El Salvador, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Pakistan, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Zimbabwe. The project led to a system for improved use of data, production of […]

The gender and land governance action learning programme aims to identify and test approaches that address barriers to realising women’s land rights. Given the complexity in land governance and gender relations and the close link with agricultural development and the protection of livelihoods, the programme implements context specific projects run by interdisciplinary teams of members […]

The online Gender and Rights Resource Guide enables non-governmental organisations to enhance their gender perspective on Rights Based Approaches (RBAs). The guide’s development has been informed by both literature and practices emerging from struggles for gender rights and equality. Concepts and tools for development practice The guide begins by demystifying the concept of rights in […]

The Gender Responsive Budgets (GRB) project delivered a series of training workshops, mentoring, and technical assistance to government agencies, civil society organisations, and academia in Kurdistan, Iraq. The goal was to facilitate the inclusion of gender equality issues across governments, and integrate gender equality issues in budget reform processes. The scope of activities The GRB project […]

This gender audit was carried out for the Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA). On its basis we were able to offer strategy and policy advice to improve the gender orientation of ASARECA’s work, and therefore its impact. A powerful indicator of impact When gender factors are integrated into development […]