Measuring inclusion in MSD programmes is harder than it looks; data can easily misrepresent who truly benefits.
In rural northern Nigeria, it is mainly women who own and care for chickens, feeding them scraps from the kitchen and relying on them to feed their families and earn extra income. Yet, monitoring data from Propcom+ – a UK-funded climate-smart agriculture programme – revealed that only 22 per cent of farmers receiving chicken vaccinations were female.
At first glance this might not seem alarming considering the programme operates in northern Nigeria – a region known for stark gender inequalities. However, knowing that the poultry sector is overwhelmingly female-dominated in Nigeria the data did not seem right. So, how were we missing so many women in our data? Read more here
