Zimbabwe hub: Capacity building and gender sensitive extension training

The Zimbabwe Hub led by Chinhoyi University of Technology, in collaboration with University of Namibia, University of Zambia, Manicaland State University and partners in Tanzania, seeks to build capacity among faculty and students in science translation and gender sensitive extension training. Its focus is on strengthening the link between education and societal needs, delivering contextually relevant learning, and empowering learners to investigate and solve real-world challenges. The hub includes two change projects located in Zimbabwe and Tanzania respecitvely, that illustrates practical models of science translation and their impacts. The change projects focus on:

• Capacity building in edible insect rearing, value-added processing, and entrepreneurial development (Zimbabwe)
• Gender-sensitive village extension training in Tanzania (GenSens)