A four days off-campus collaborative training program on “Institutionalizing Gender Mainstreaming through ATMA” was conducted from August 20 to 23 at SAMETI, Medziphema, Nagaland, jointly organized by National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management (MANAGE) and State Agricultural Management and Extension Training Institute (SAMETI) Nagaland.
A press release by SAMETI stated that the event was graced by Director, Agriculture and State Nodal Officer (SNO) ATMA, C. Peter Yanthan as the special guest, with resource persons as deputy director, MANAGE (Gender Studies), Dr. Veenita Kumari, director, Extension Education Institute (EEI), North Eastern Region, Dr. Rajumoni Bordoloi, Senior Associate Scientist and Lead Specialist from IRRI, New Delhi, Dr. Sugandha Munshi, joint director, Ministry of Agriculture and farmers Welfare, Government of India, Dr. Punam Sharma, and master trainer, Department of Women Resource Development, Sungjemkala.
The training covered wide range of topics essential to promoting gender equity in agriculture, including gender concepts and stereotypes, role of ATMA in advancing gender equity, tools for integrating gender perspectives in agricultural programmes and strategies for effective messaging on gender mainstreaming.
Participants were also trained on engaging women and marginalized groups in participatory processes and on methods for collecting and analyzing gender disaggregated data to inform policy and project decisions.
The release added that a total of 23 participants from Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Sikkim, Tripura, Nagaland and Meghalaya attended the training, aimed to empower participants with knowledge and tools needed to implement gender sensitive approaches in their respective regions, contributing to more inclusive and equitable agricultural development.