Strengthening gender‑responsive agricultural extension training in Tanzania (GenSens)

By improving how gender is mainstreamed in extension training, the project aims to enhance advisory services to smallholder farmers, particularly women, who produce a significant share of the country’s food. 

The GenSens project has highlighted three critical gaps:

1. Limited depth of tutors’ conceptual understanding of gender despite familiarity with terminology
2. A persistent theory-practice gap in applying gender concepts to extension and farming realities
3. The siloing of gender within a single module rather than integrating it across the curriculum.

These constraints reduce the effectiveness of gender-sensitive extension delivery. The extended phase of the GenSens responds by scaling and deepening capacity strengthening across all of the country's agricultural training institutes (MATIs) using transformative learning approaches and visualisation techniques.