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SheVax+ at the IDRC side event at the 2023 Women Deliver Conference held in Kigali, July 2023.
Dr. Amuguni presenting on SheVax+ at the IDRC side event at the African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) 2022 Summit
Dr. Amuguni and Professor Mugisha are interviewed by UBC Television Uganda

Web Articles

Gender-Based Research Project Provides African Women Farmers with Access to Livestock Vaccines

July 27, 2023

https://now.tufts.edu/2023/07/27/gender-based-research-project-provides-african-women-farmers-access-livestock-vaccines

Solutions to improve women’s access to livestock vaccines

July 6, 2023

https://idrc-crdi.ca/en/research-in-action/solutions-improve-womens-access-livestock-vaccines

Making vaccines available and accessible to women and other marginalized livestock farmers: The SheVax Story in East Africa

March 17, 2023

https://afrohun.org/making-vaccines-available-and-accessible-to-women-and-other-marginalized-livestock-farmers-the-shevax-story-in-east-africa/

Empowering and engaging women in livestock vaccine value chains in East Africa, by IRDC

November 10, 2022

https://www.idrc.ca/en/research-in-action/empowering-and-engaging-women-livestock-vaccine-value-chains-east-africa

SheVax project boosts vaccine uptake among women livestock holders in East Africa, by Farmers Review Africa

October 26, 2022

https://farmersreviewafrica.com/shevax-project-boosts-vaccine-uptake-among-women-livestock-holders-in-east-africa/

Empowering Women for Better Lives for People and Animals, by Genevieve Rajewski, Tufts Now

July 27, 2020

https://now.tufts.edu/2020/07/27/empowering-women-better-lives-people-and-animals

Published Research

Gendered Barriers and Opportunities for Women Smallholder Farmers in the Contagious Caprine Pleuropneumonia Vaccine Value Chain in Kenya

Kyotos, K.B.; Oduma, J.; Wahome, R.G.; Kaluwa, C.; Abdirahman, F.A.; Opondoh, A.; Mbobua, J.N.; Muchibi, J.; Bagnol, B.; Stanley, M.; et al. Gendered Barriers and Opportunities for Women Smallholder Farmers in the Contagious Caprine Pleuropneumonia Vaccine Value Chain in Kenya. Animals 2022, 12, 1026. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani12081026

Women smallholder farmers’ engagement in the vaccine chain in Sembabule District, Uganda: Barriers and Opportunities

Lillian Tukahirwa, Anthony Mugisha, Elizabeth Kyewalabye, Ruth Nsibirano, Patricia Kabahango, Dean Kusiimakwe, Kenneth Mugabi, Winnie Bikaako, Beth Miller, Brigitte Bagnol, Agnes Yawe, Meghan Stanley & Hellen Amuguni (2022): Women Smallholder farmers’ engagement in the vaccine chain in Sembabule District, Uganda: Barriers and Opportunities, Development in Practice, https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2022.2105817

Using Outcome Mapping to Mobilize Critical Stakeholders for a Gender Responsive Rift Valley Fever and Newcastle Disease Vaccine Value Chain in Rwanda

Gannaway T, Majyambere D, Kabarungi M, Mukamana L, Niyitanga F, Schurer J, Miller B and Amuguni H (2022) Using Outcome Mapping to Mobilize Critical Stakeholders for a Gender Responsive Rift Valley Fever and Newcastle Disease Vaccine Value Chain in Rwanda. Front. Glob. Womens Health 3:732292. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgwh.2022.732292

Barriers to Livestock Vaccine Use Among Rural Female Smallholder Farmers Of Nyagatare District In Rwanda

Mukamana, L., Rosenbaum, M., Schurer, J., Miller, B., Niyitanga, F., Majyambere, D., Kabarungi, M., & Amuguni, H. (2022). Barriers to livestock vaccine use among rural female smallholder farmers of Nyagatare District in Rwanda. The Journal of Rural and Community Development, 17(1), 153–175.

Breaking institutional barriers to enhance women’s participation in and benefit from the Peste des Petits Ruminants and Newcastle Disease vaccine value chains for Sembabule district of Uganda

Bikaako W, Kabahango P, Mugabi K, Yawe A, Stallon K, Kyewalabye E, et al. (2022) Breaking institutional barriers to enhance women’s participation in and benefit from the Peste des Petits Ruminants and Newcastle Disease vaccine value chains for Sembabule district of Uganda. PLoS ONE 17(10): e0270518. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0270518

GENDER BARRIERS AND OPPORTUNITIES ALONG THE NEWCASTLE DISEASE VACCINE VALUE CHAIN IN MACHAKOS TOWN SUB-COUNTY, KENYA

ABDIRAHMAN, Faduma Abdullahi et al. GENDER BARRIERS AND OPPORTUNITIES ALONG THE NEWCASTLE DISEASE VACCINE VALUE CHAIN IN MACHAKOS TOWN SUB-COUNTY, KENYA. Tropical and Subtropical Agroecosystems, [S.l.], v. 26, n. 1, jan. 2023. ISSN 1870-0462. Available at: https://www.revista.ccba.uady.mx/ojs/index.php/TSA/article/view/3915

Using the Women Empowerment in Livestock Index (WELI) to Examine Linkages between Women Smallholder Livestock Farmers’ Empowerment and Access to Livestock Vaccines in Machakos County of Kenya: Insights and Critiques

Citation: Kaluwa, C.; Oduma, J.; Abdirahman, F.A.; Kitoga, B.K.; Opondoh, A.A.; Muchibi, J.; Bagnol, B.; Rosenbaum, M.; Onchaga, S.; Stanley, M.; et al. Using the Women Empowerment in Livestock Index (WELI) to Examine Linkages between Women Smallholder Livestock Farmers’ Empowerment and Access to Livestock Vaccines in Machakos County of Kenya: Insights and Critiques. Vaccines 2022, 10, 1868. https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10111868

Women‘s Access to and Control over the 5 Forms of Capital in Machakos Town Sub-County, Kenya

Angela Adhiambo Opondoh, Dr. Geoffrey Muga, Catherine Kaluwa, Jemimah Oduma, Brigitte Bagnol, Faduma Abdulahi Abdirahman, Kitoga Byalungwa Kyotos, Jeanette Nkatha Mbobua, John Muchibi, Beth Miller, Meghan Stanley, Marieke Rosenbaum, Janetrix H. Amuguni. International Journal of Science and Research 2023, 12, 7. DOI: 10.21275/SR23625065717

Policy Briefs

Improving livestock vaccine uptake by women smallholder farmers in Machakos, Kenya through public-private partnerships

http://hdl.handle.net/10625/62103

Making vaccines available and accessible to women and other marginalized livestock farmers

http://hdl.handle.net/10625/61953