Growing Leadership
Fostering Mentoring Partnerships
Enhancing Science Skills
Through AWARD's tailored leadership training, fellows learn to navigate organizational gender issues, leverage team talents, manage conflict and use influence appropriately.
Mentoring is a proven and powerful driver for career development. AWARD pairs a fellow with a mentor- a senior professional volunteering to guide the fellow's career path.
AWARD expands the fellows' world of science, facilitating their access to the latest methodologies and technologies, while building their professional networks.
African women play a critical role across Africa’s agricultural value chains yet only one in four agricultural researchers is female (AWARD/ASTI 2009). Available data indicate that women in many African countries enroll in agricultural science as students but upon entering the workforce, face discouraging workplace dynamics.
An essential step toward improving outcomes for Africa’s smallholder farmers includes strengthening the voice of its women, on the farm, in the laboratories, in markets, and in policy forums. As part of the solution, it is critical to support the careers of African women agricultural researchers
AWARD is cultivating a growing pool of African women to be (a) effective within ARD institutions supporting the agricultural value chain; (b) effective across a range of research disciplines serving the sector; (c) responsive to gender issues in the service of women, without excluding men
Lucia Chigamane's current research centers on plant nutrition. She is is studying zinc and phosphorus interactions in soil. “I am engaged in a researcher-designed, farmer-managed study that involves the use of different rates of phosphorous to see its effect on residual phosphorus and other trace elements in zinc availability in acidic soils," she explains.
