AFA Secretary General Ma. Estrella Penunia will attend the UN women expert group meeting on ‘Enabling rural women’s economic empowerment: institutions, opportunities and participation’ to be held in Accra, Ghana, from 20 to 23 September 2011.
The expert group meeting is part of the preparatory process for the 56th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (2012), which will consider as its priority theme ‘The empowerment of rural women and their role in poverty and hunger eradication, development and current challenges’. The expert group meeting, organized by UN Women in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the World Food Programme (WFP) will contribute to a fuller understanding of the issue and assist the Commission in its deliberations.
The EGM will explore a wide range of strategies that can enhance the economic empowerment of rural women, and will focus on the following critical areas:
• Rural women’s strengthened role in agriculture;
• Rural women’s access to productive resources, technology markets and financing;
• Decent and productive employment and income-generating opportunities for rural women;
• Infrastructure and service-delivery that benefit rural women;
• Rural women’s role in natural resource management and climate change adaptation;
• Effective institutions and enabling policy environment that promotes gender responsive rural development.
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