Gender capacity development for equitable animal health and feed services: Participant guide

This Participant Guide supports animal health and feed professionals to integrate gender-responsive approaches into RESTORE project interventions. Anchored in rural livestock systems, it provides practical guidance to address gender inequalities that influence access to services, decision-making, and the distribution of benefits for women and men. The guide introduces core gender concepts and analytical frameworks and demonstrates how gender roles, norms, and power relations affect livestock management and service uptake. Through practical examples, case studies, and reflection questions, it equips participants to identify gender gaps, adapt service delivery models, and promote inclusive participation and shared decision-making.
A central emphasis is placed on integrating gender into monitoring, evaluation, and knowledge management systems. The guide outlines common challenges in conventional monitoring approaches and presents actionable strategies for developing gender-responsive indicators, collecting and analyzing sex-disaggregated data, and using evidence for adaptive management and accountability. It also highlights the role of partnerships, networks, and gender-responsive communication in sustaining change, showing how inclusive learning systems can amplify women’s voices, challenge restrictive norms, and contribute to more equitable and effective animal health and feed services.