4 February 2025
Breaking Barriers: GRÓ GEST Alumna Madalitso Juwayeyi's Mission to Empower Young Women and Combat HIV
"As a visionary leader, I inspire young women to overcome barriers and lead social change for equitable development."
29 January 2025
Madalitso Juwayeyi GRÓ GEST alumna: Tackling HIV Prevention Among Young Women
Madalitso Juwayeyi (GRÓ GEST 2023 alumna from Malawi) is a dedicated advocate for youth, adolescent girls, and young women’s development. She has particularly focused her work on advancing access to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR), gender equality, HIV prevention, and girl’s education. She says her participation in the GRÓ GEST programme provided her with the tools and knowledge to take her advocacy work to new heights.
29 January 2025
Strengthening Partnerships: GRÓ GEST Operations Manager Visits Sierra Leone
In January 2025, GRÓ GEST‘s Operations Manager, Guðrún Eysteinsdóttir, embarked on a mission to Sierra Leone at the invitation of Ásdís Bjarnadóttir, Head of Mission at the Icelandic Embassy in Freetown, to participate in the inaugural African Maritime Gender Network (AMGN) conference
22 January 2025
GRÓ Fisheries Training Programme Praised in External Evaluation
GRÓ Fisheries Training Programme (GRÓ FTP) received praise from GOPA in the latest external evaluation of the GRÓ Centre and four GRÓ programmes.
22 January 2025
Change and continuity
Exploring future trends for fisheries, the FTP fellows asked questions like “what is likely to change and what will probably continue”, during the fourth week of the Six month training programme.
22 January 2025
Dr. Sumjidmaa Sainnemekh GRÓ LRT alumna’s contribution to addressing overgrazing and rangeland degradation - a major environmental challenge in Mongolia
Dr. Sumjidmaa Sainnemekh, the first GRÓ LRT PhD scholarship recipient, graduated from the Agricultural University of Iceland in 2022 with a doctoral degree in Environmental Science. Today she works as a rangeland management specialist at The Nature Conservancy in Mongolia where she can directly apply her wealth of knowledge to contribute to rangeland science and tackle overgrazing and rangeland degradation, which is a major environmental challenge in her home country Mongolia. The GRÓ centre asked Sumjidmaa to share information about her career and how her work is contributing to sustainable land management in Mongolia.