Alessandra Galiè

Alessandra Galiè

Team leader: Gender

Alessandra Galiè is the Team Leader: Gender at ILRI, and Principal Scientist. She has 20 years of experience conducting gender analysis for agriculture development focused on women's empowerment and gender norms in livestock and crop systems. With her team, they developed effective models to support women’s empowerment through livestock business, published extensively on gender considerations in agriculture, and also, supported the integration of gender considerations in policy planning. She obtained a PhD from Wageningen University, Netherlands; one MA from University of London, UK; and one MA from the University of Bologna, Italy.

My Blog Posts

A local farming couple in Son La Province, Vietnam

Challenging gender norms: Bringing gender-transformative approaches (GTAs) to livestock communities to the Northwest Highlands of Vietnam

Using the pig weigh band

Empowering women in livestock: addressing gender barriers in Uganda’s pig sector

ILRI research project in Ghana

ILRI research project in Ghana is identifying approaches that benefit women in vaccine delivery

Building a Community: The Gender and Livestock Data Community of Practice

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Impact

Putting women first in the adoption and delivery of livestock vaccines

Ghana: Why the goats won't die on her watch

My Projects

Women in business

Women in business: Chicken seed dissemination in Ethiopia and Tanzania

ILRI research project in Ghana

Transforming the vaccine delivery system in Ghana: identifying approaches that benefit women

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My Publications

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An evidence-to-action toolkit on gender norms in the livestock sector

  • Achandi, Esther L.
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Gender norms and implications on women's empowerment within the livestock and vaccines delivery systems: A multisite qualitative study in the Upper East Region of Northern Ghana

  • Njiru, Nelly
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Integrating gender considerations in feed and forages research

  • Njuguna-Mungai, Esther
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Vietnam Women’s Academy adopts gender transformative approaches developed with SAAF in its curricula and training of officials

  • Phuong Nguyen, Thi Minh
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Challenging gender norms: Bringing gender-transformative approaches (GTAs) to livestock communities to the Northwest Highlands of Vietnam

  • Nguyen Thi Minh Phuong
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Implementing gender transformative approaches (GTAs) in smallholder chicken value chains in Tanzania

  • Achandi, Esther L.
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