Immaculate Omondi

Immaculate Omondi

Scientist: Gender Research Economist

Immaculate Omondi is a Gender Research Economist at ILRI.
Immaculate holds a PhD. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Giessen, Germany. She also holds an MSc. degree in agricultural economics  and a bachelor's degree in agribusiness management from Egerton University, Kenya.  She conducted her post-doctoral research at ICIPE (International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology).
Previously, she worked at ILRI as a Monitoring, Learning and Evaluation Scientist in Policies, Institutions and Livelihoods (PIL) Program. Earlier in her career, she worked at ILRI as a Research Technician – Agricultural Economist, attached to the East African Dairy Development project (phase 1) after completing her graduate fellowship at ILRI.

My Blog Posts

Using the pig weigh band

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

A livestock farmer in northern Ghana. (ILRI/Georgina Smith).

Opinion and analysis

Towards gender equality: A novel index to measure the empowerment of women in livestock keeping households

Harnessing digital innovations

Harnessing digital innovations for gender and social inclusion in Kenya and Rwanda

My Publications

Binti Shujaaz

  • Komba, Lucy
  • Mpenze, Neema
  • Mbugua, Narayan
  • Biamah, Stephan
  • Deacon, Bridget
  • Galiè, Alessandra
  • Achandi, Esther
  • Omondi, Immaculate A.
  • Campbell, Zoë A.
  • Jeremiah, Adolf
  • Jumba, Humphrey
  • Ngoteya, Godfrey
  • Kariuki, Eunice
  • Omore, Amos O.

Gender exploration tool for the Sustainable Agrifood Systems Approach for Sudan (SASAS) Project and Livestock-Food Systems Development (LFSD)

  • Achandi, Esther L.
  • Omondi, Immaculate A.
  • Terfa, Zelalem
  • Jumba, Humphrey
  • Kariuki, Eunice
ILRI publication cover

Gender relations and women's empowerment in small-scale irrigated forage production in the Amhara and SNNP Regions of Ethiopia

  • Omondi, Immaculate A.
  • Njuguna-Mungai, Esther
  • Bezabih, Melkamu
  • Teufel, Nils
  • Galiè, Alessandra
  • Njiru, Nelly
  • Kariuki, Eunice
  • Mulema, Annet Abenakyo
  • Baltenweck, Isabelle
  • Jones, Christopher S.

Leveraging empowerment data to inform equitable livelihoods reconstruction through livestock: a case of Ethiopia

  • Omondi, Immaculate A.
  • Terfa, Zelalem
  • Kariuki, Eunice
  • Galiè, Alessandra
  • Karugia, Joseph T.
ILRI publication cover

Achieving Gender Equity in Kenya’s Informal Dairy Sector

  • Jumba, Humphrey
  • Alonso, Silvia
  • Galiè, Alessandra
  • Kilonzi, Emily
  • Sharma, Garima
  • Omondi, Immaculate A.

Gender transformative innovation: Women's inclusion in livestock vaccine systems in northern Ghana

  • Njiru, Nelly
  • Galiè, Alessandra
  • Omondi, Immaculate A.
  • Omia, Dalmas
  • Loriba, Agnes
  • Awin, Peter