PRomoting and Enabling Vaccination Efficiently, Now and Tomorrow (PREVENT)

The PREVENT project aims to create an efficient sector of medium-sized African hatcheries by applying hatchery vaccination and proactive marketing methods to initiate and increase vaccinated Day-Old Chick (DOC) sales to poultry Small Scale Livestock Producers (SSPs). The project will work to build the capacity of 36 medium-sized hatcheries spread across eleven Africa countries to provide high-quality, vaccinated day-old chicks to small-scale producers together with practical advice and guidance from a team of field technicians. 

ILRI leads the gender research component, which supports the project implementors in their goal of positively impacting women chicken producers, minimizing unintended negative consequences, and documenting how women chicken producers experience intensification.  In 2020, a rapid gender landscaping analysis was conducted in three countries representing East, West, and Southern Africa (Tanzania, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe) to build an early qualitative picture of the current situation on the ground, focusing on women and men chicken producers with improved backyard, semi-intensive, and emergent commercial production system. The Women's Empowerment in Livestock Index (WELI) is also being implemented at baseline and endline in Tanzania and Nigeria to better understand how intensification in the poultry sector affects women's empowerment.

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