 We recognize the importance of gender equality in transforming the culture sector and the role of women in contributing to our cultural productivity and also improving the livelihoods of their homestead as men migrate into other professions. Gender development interventions tend to benefit men and the men dominate markets. They control also incomes generated from sales of agricultural products, but on the other hand much of the work has been done by women. However, they have less access to inputs and services and they are less represented in development activities. In our organization there was weak perception in gender mainstreaming as well as low attention given to the gender-sensitive project development. The two institutions came up with an initiative quickly developed for the partners and this include research and development partners who implement the research outcomes. We piloted this guide with six partners in total including three partners who work for the research centers and then partners who work in the office of agriculture like Extension and those are the development partners. The capacity development intervention was very successful. The commitment of our gender committee in the centers as well as the perception of our research staff now becoming positive, our monitoring and evaluation become gender-sensitive. We incorporated gender issues in our research project development criteria. The objective of this initiative was to enhance the abilities of our partners to develop gender-responsive programs, interventions, objectives in a more gender-responsible manner. In Italy, values partners a lot in implementing the work on the ground and if at all Italy and Ikada are to achieve the gender equality goal, which is one of the SDGs, we need to ensure that their partners are equally competent to address gender issues on the ground.