Collaboration around the Globe

COLLABORATION AROUND the

Eric Smith (Project Manager, ENGAGE) recently visited World Agroforestry (ICRAF) in Nairobi, Kenya to support the Farmerled Tools, Dashboard Development and the Future of Farming initiative. Supported by the Fund for Innovation & Transformation, the initiative aims to advance gender equality and economic empowerment by providing farmers with access to financial tools for business planning and management. Read more about this initiative.

Julien Landry (Program Teaching Staff) joined colleagues in South Africa where a research team is exploring how asset-based community development (ABCD) approaches can be leveraged to effectively engage excluded or underrepresented communities in local governance. Read more about this initiative.

Krista Hanscomb (Program Teaching Staff, Circle of Abundance), Karri-Lynn Paul (Teaching Staff, Indigenous Programs), and Eileen Alma (Director, International Centre for Women’s Leadership) attended a Community Gathering in Red Deer, Alberta hosted by the Urban Aboriginal Voices Society (UAVS). Along with Coady graduate Tanya Schur, Coady and UAVS are working to co-create a community-driven Indigenous lens and health assessment tool. The Gathering included an opportunity for the team to share their work to date and connect with the community to ensure their priorities have been captured authentically and respectfully. Learn more about the Red Deer Urban Aboriginal Voices Society.

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Gord Cunningham (Executive Director), along with Coady graduates Ashit (George) Singha and Mousumi (Mo) Halder, facilitated training in Asset-Based and Citizen-Led Development (ABCD) for staff and partner organizations of Christian Commission for Development in Bangladesh (CCDB). Read more about this initiative.

Eric Smith (Project Manager, ENGAGE) joined the team at the Tanzania Gender Networking Programme (TGNP) to support their ENGAGE initiative which focuses on empowering women to lead gender equitable change in their communities through use of Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) and feminist movement building.

Learn more about ENGAGE.

Yogesh Ghore (Strategic Partnerships Advisor; Senior Program Teaching Staff) and Alison Mathie joined the Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) in Ahmedabad, India to advance work on developing innovative participatory tools for measuring women’s vulnerabilities, gender-based violence and their priorities for change.

Yogesh then travelled to Gujrat, India to support the Farmer-led Tools, Dashboard Development and the Future of Farming initiative project piloting producer-led value chain development tools with smallholder women farmers producing salt and fresh vegetables.

Read more about this initiative.