Uganda’s agriculture is dominated by smallholder farmers who are faced with numerous challenges among which is limited access to and use of quality seed. This prompted Wageningen UR Uganda (WUU)in collaboration with the National Agricultural Research Organization (NARO) with funding from the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Uganda to implement a four-year project dubbed “Integrated Seed Sector Development (ISSD) Plus” project from 2016 to 2020. The aim of the ISSD Plusproject was to strengthen the development of a vibrant, pluralistic and market-oriented seed sector inUganda. The project components were: promotion of uptake of quality seed; enhancing the QualityDeclared Seed system through supporting Local Seed Businesses (LSBs); addressing bottlenecks in earlygeneration seed (EGS) and creating an enabling environment for the seed sector; and promoting the useof advanced vegetable varieties. However, during implementation, it was established that LSBs weremarred with a number of gender-related issues. This prompted project implementers to integrate genderinclusive approaches in a bid to overcome gender challenges within households and in LSBs. However, thechanges that have resulted from the various gender mainstreaming efforts are not yet established.Therefore, this consultancy task sought to establish the changes that had resulted from the various gendermainstreaming efforts carried out. A Process/Implementation Evaluation Approach was used to examinethe sequence of activities done under the ISSD Plus project to ascertain project “impacts”/ outcomes.

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