UNU-GEST Researchers in Nordic Africa Days 2016

Gender research in Africa was this year’s thematic focus at the Nordic Africa Days 2016 (September 22-24) held in Uppsala, Sweden. Erla Hlín Hjálmarsdóttir (UNU-GEST Head of Research) and Pétur Waldorff (UNU-GEST Senior Researcher) organized and convened a panel focusing on gender research and gender-responsive methodologies, where they presented research the data from the UNU-GEST research project Gendered Value Chain Analysis of Small-Scale Fisheries and Fish Processing in Lake Tanganyika, Tanzania. Their presentation was entitled "Gender-Responsive Value Chain Analyses as a Social Research Strategy".