Report of the IPMS capacity building workshop on gender and HIV/AIDS mainstreaming in agricultural development for frontline staff, Goma PLW, 10-14 December 2008

The IPMS capacity building workshop was to develop the capacity and practical skill of frontline staff to integrate a gender and HIV/AIDS perspective into market-led agricultural development interventions and their day to day activities of rural development. By the end of this training the participants would be able to describe the basic concepts of gender and HIV/AIDS in the context of agriculture, use techniques and tools to collect gender disaggregated information and to collect information on the risk of HIV infection and vulnerability to impacts of AIDS in the rural community, analyze and interpret gender and HIV/AIDS data, develop gender and HIV/AIDS action plan, and integrate gender and HIV/AIDS consideration in their day to day activities.