Women Professional Beekeeping Trainer Programme

The programme seeks to address the gender imbalance in the beekeeping sector in Ghana – both in terms of practicing beekeeping at household level and those who are in positions as trainers, leaders and change agents within the sector. We have been working in the beekeeping sector for many years. Despite some notable and impressive exceptions, where some women are playing active roles, our recent gender review revealed that we are reaching fewer women than men, and women are earning less than men. This finding, coupled with evidence that more women live in deeper poverty, than men, in Ghana – obliges us to invest new efforts in bringing the benefits of beekeeping to women. We hope to build long term capacity and set the foundation for transformational change across the sector – now and into the future. This programme takes an innovative approach to address gender disparity by providing intense investment in a small cohort of women, enabling them to become professional beekeepers and change agents. They will become women entrepreneurs, advocates, and trainers serving the wider apiculture sector in Ghana. They will appreciate barriers to women’s participation in beekeeping and strategies to overcome those barriers. Be familiar with different approaches to development and have a basic grasp of how to develop a Theory of Change for a development project.

More about this project is here.