 ANTHRA chose to study EVM because women farmers performed 50 – 90% of all daily activities related to livestock care but were denied aspects of the local EVM because knowledge was traditionally passed from father to son.Women are not trained as traditional Dinka healers (atet) in Sudan (VSF/Switzerland, 1998).However, female-headed households are increasing in Sudan due to war, and women are thus more visible as livestock rearers.