Dr. Margaret Najjingo Mangheni is the Senior Manager Gender and Programs at AWARD. She has over 30 years of experience in the Agricultural Sector, Development, and Research. Her work spans a range of areas, including advocacy and practical integration of gender into agricultural policy and university curricula, design and delivery of experiential, transformative gender and agriculture training programs, and national agricultural strategy and policy formulation. She has held advisory and leadership positions in international, regional, and national projects and organizations, such as AWARD, the African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS), and the Uganda Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (UFAAS). She has led over 20 research projects and published widely on training, gender-responsive agriculture, nutrition, agricultural extension systems and approaches, and adopting and scaling agricultural technologies. She has consulted for government, regional, and international organizations and is a co-founder and leader of national and continental professional networks. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture from Makerere University in Uganda, a Master’s Degree in Agricultural Education from Ohio State University, and a PhD in Agricultural Extension from the University of Minnesota, USA.  Before joining AWARD, Dr. Mangheni was an Associate Professor of Agricultural Extension and Innovation at Makerere University in Uganda and Co-Lead of the Gender-responsive Researchers Equipped for Agricultural Transformation (GREAT) program of Makerere-Cornell University (since 2015), which builds the capacity to integrate gender into Plant Breeding, Seed Systems, Agronomy and other agricultural disciplines.