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| Home News | | Six Tanzanian women win fellowships | DAILY NEWS Reporter
Daily News; Tuesday,September 30, 2008 @00:02
| Six women from Tanzania have been selected to receive the first fellowships granted by the new African Women in Agricultural Research and Development Programme (AWARD). A statement issued yesterday by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), indicated that six women were among 60 outstanding AWARD Fellowship winners, chosen from more than 900 candidates in nine African countries, representing 44 institutions plus a dramatically broad variety of agricultural disciplines, academic levels and nationalities.
The six winners included Head of Agronomy Section Mikocheni, Grace Chipungahelo, Principal Agricultural Research Officer, Mlingano Agricultural Research Institute (ARI), Dr Susan Ikerra and Principal Livestock Research Scientist (Tsetse & Trypanosomiasis Research Institute), Dr Imna Malele. Others are Executive Secretary, Tanzania Milk Processors Association (TAMPA), Mboka Mwanitu, Assistant Land Reform Officer in the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs, Mary Marandus and a Project Co-ordinator with World Vision Tanzania (WVT), Angela Mutashobya.
"Women have always been the backbone of Africa's agriculture but, ironically, women scientists working in agricultural research and development have been invisible. AWARD has changed that," the statement said. The AWARD Steering Committee, with representation from East, West and Southern Africa and chaired by a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation representative, selected the winners, based on their potential to contribute to the lives of smallholder farmers and rural women.
The statement stated that the fellowships aim at increasing skills, visibility and contributions to research and development of women working on critical aspects of agricultural science in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.
Designed to enhance the careers of women agricultural scientists in Africa whose work is critical to efforts to overcome hunger and poverty, AWARD is supported by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and USAID. It is administered by the Gender & Diversity Programme of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, based in Nairobi. | | View Visitor's comments on this Story
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