Changing the Poultry Business Starts at Home: What GALS is Teaching Us in Burkina Faso September 2026 Summary SELEVER 2 is helping shift household power dynamics through GALS: By integrating the Gender Action Learning System (GALS) into its poultry-sector work, SELEVER 2 helped couples strengthen communication, share household responsibilities, and make more joint decisions creating [...]
Tanager and Ikore Showcase Institutional Diagnostic Tool at AASW9 to Accelerate Gender and Nutrition Integration Across Africa August 2026 Summary A practical diagnostic for institutional change: Tanager’s diagnostic assessment tool helps African agricultural institutions assess their current status of gender and nutrition integration, identify strengths and gaps, and establish a baseline for tracking progress. Moving [...]
Beyond Access to Finance: How Burkina Faso’s Microfinance Institutions are Advancing Gender and Nutrition August 2026 Summary Moving beyond financial inclusion: MFIs supported through IGNITE+ are beginning to examine how their policies, products, services, and institutional systems can better respond to the different needs of women and other underserved clients. Small institutional changes can drive [...]
How Can Agricultural Programmes Demonstrate that their Investments are Actually Improving Nutrition? August 2026 Summary Measure what matters, not just what is easy to count: While agricultural programmes often track production, yields, and income, these indicators alone do not reveal whether interventions are improving diets and nutrition outcomes. Nutrition-sensitive agriculture requires measuring the pathways that [...]
Turning Gender Commitments into Investment through Gender-Responsive Budgeting August 2026 Summary Turning Commitments into Action: Through IGNITE+, Tanager and its Local Service Providers are equipping agricultural institutions with practical tools to translate gender equality commitments into gender-responsive budgets and investments. Strengthening Technical Capacity: Gender experts from IGNITE+ Local Service Providers (LSPs) across Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria [...]
Unlocking Agricultural Productivity Through Secure Land Tenure for Women July 2026 Summary Women's land rights are key to resilient food systems: Secure access to land empowers women to increase agricultural productivity, improve household nutrition, strengthen climate resilience, and drive inclusive economic growth. Turning policy into practice requires community-led solutions: Experts from Landesa shared practical approaches from Kenya and Tanzania, including legal awareness, succession [...]
Shaping the Future of Joint Nutrition Action in a Changing World July 2026 A vegetable market located on Masaka road Summary Partnerships are Critical for Addressing Malnutrition: No single institution can solve Africa's nutrition challenges alone. Sustainable nutrition outcomes require collaboration among governments, development partners, financial institutions, private sector actors, and agricultural organizations. Financing Can [...]
International Women’s Day 2026: Personal Stories of Tanager’s Impact in Advancing Gender Transformative Approaches March 2026 Beyond supporting African agricultural institutions to mainstream gender and integrate nutrition, the staff and Local Service Providers (LSPs) of Tanager’s Impacting Gender & Nutrition through Innovative Technical Exchange in Agriculture Plus (IGNITE+) project are driving change through their lived [...]
#IWD2026: Transforming Institutions and Systems to Advance Gains for Women March 2026 Summary Institutional Change is Key to Scaling Impact: The IGNITE+ programme demonstrates that strengthening the capacity of agricultural institutions to integrate gender and nutrition leads to more inclusive services, better support for women farmers, and sustainable, system-wide change. Investing in Women drives Broad [...]
Give to Gain: How IGNITE+ is Strengthening Agricultural Institutions to Empower Women February 2026 Summary “Give to Gain” Investing in Women Strengthens Systems: The webinar series, held in celebration of International Women’s Day 2026, emphasizes that investing in women through institutional reform, knowledge, and partnerships leads to stronger, more inclusive agrifood systems and improved nutrition outcomes. Institutional [...]
