At IGNITE+ Project Launch, Opportunities for Agricultural Institutions to Scale Gender and Nutrition Outcomes in Africa November 2024 Summary Project Launch and Goals: The IGNITE+ project will launch in Kenya and Burkina Faso in December, aiming to integrate gender and nutrition-sensitive approaches into African agricultural institutions. This five-year program builds on the previous IGNITE project [...]
Tanager Awarded $11 Million Grant to Continue Advancing Gender Equality and Nutrition in African Agriculture September 2024 Summary $11 Million Grant: Tanager receives a significant grant from the Gates Foundation to support the IGNITE+ project, building on its successful work in strengthening gender equality and nutrition in African agriculture. IGNITE+ Expansion: The project will expand [...]
Advancing Gender Equity and Nutrition: The Legacy of the IGNITE Program July 2024 Summary From 2018-2024, the IGNITE program addressed gender equity and malnutrition in Africa by integrating gender and nutrition in agricultural institutions' practices, working with 35 client institutions across 18 countries. 70% of clients achieved leadership buy-in for gender, equity, and inclusion. 57% [...]
Localization in Practice: Strengthening Locally Led Technical Assistance July 2024 Across the globe, localization is becoming the new standard in development, shifting the driver's seat to local actors by strengthening their systems to address socioeconomic challenges responsive to their community needs. This approach is the driving force behind Tanager’s IGNITE project—an investment mechanism designed to [...]
Two Studies from Tanager's IGNITE Project Published in African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition, and Development April 2024 Tanager’s Impacting Gender & Nutrition Through Innovative Technical Exchange in Agriculture (IGNITE) project has just published two research studies in a peer-reviewed journal, “African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition, and Development” (Volume 24, Issue No. 3). IGNITE [...]
Nutrition Transformation: Small Changes by IGNITE Client, Sasakawa Africa Association, Yield Big Results for African Farmers March 2024 The Sasakawa Africa Association (SAA) is committed to supporting farmers along different value chains to increase their income as well as promote food and nutrition security. Since 2018, Tanager in partnership with Laterite and 60 Decibels has [...]
IGNITE & Sasakawa: Gender-specific drivers of best practice adoption among teff farmers. This study identifies key gender factors that influence decision-making on the adoption of best practices (BPs) in teff farming households in Amhara, Ethiopia. The research was conducted by the Impacting Gender & Nutrition through Innovative Technical Exchange in Agriculture (IGNITE), in consultation with Sasakawa Africa Association.
IGNITE & Digital Green: Exploring Intra-Household Decision-Making and Best Practice Adoption Outcomes of Women-Targeted Digital Extension. Women in Ethiopia face various barriers to adopting agricultural best practices. Using household surveys with 1,740 wheat farmers from 895 households in Ethiopia’s Amhara region, this study investigates if using women-only farmer groups mitigate those barriers to access for women and lead to increased knowledge and adoption of best practices for wheat farmers, or changes in decision-making power for women. The research was conducted by the Impacting Gender & Nutrition through Innovative Technical Exchange in Agriculture (IGNITE), in consultation with Digital Green.
The Pro-WEAI Tool: Measuring Women's Empowerment: From Theory to Practice September 2023 Women’s empowerment is recognized as crucial to agricultural transformation in developing countries. However, it can be complex to accurately assess the level of their empowerment in research. For example, some researchers target the head of households when seeking agricultural statistics using surveys—which tend [...]
Explore the research and findings from the Impacting Gender & Nutrition through Innovative Technical Exchange in Agriculture (IGNITE) Local Service Providers (LSPs) Summit held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in October 2022.
