ABSTRACT
In gendered societies it is highly desirable, if not essential, that women are taught by women and men by men. This necessitated training women facilitators. In the southern Nigerian projects men and women participated in roughly equal numbers. In contrast, only four women attended the initial training for the two projects in the north-east and the facilitators among the nomadic Fulani were all men. In Egypt the numbers of men and women attending the initial training reflected the larger number of classes to be opened for women, with almost gender parity in the first training and significantly more women in the second and third, reflecting a higher gender differential in literacy levels in those communities.
