African Women Innovators in Environmental Resource Management

Presentation given by Prof. Elizabeth Ardayfio-Schandorf at The Women's Leadership Information Market, WOCAN Regional Meeting for West and Central Africa 3-7 December, 2006, Yaoundé, Cameroon.

Overall Objective and Methodology:

  • Identify
  • Document
  • Success Stories of women involved in activities dealing with natural resource management enterprises.

 Specific Objectives:

  • To determine those aspects of the educational and training background, tradition and culture of women, which constituted major stumbling block to progress or in specific situations, enhanced opportunities for success.
  • To determine specific personal qualities or innovative strategies or methods that some women employed to achieve success where others failed.
  • To determine what policies make access to resources and technologies difficult and how these were surmounted in certain situations.
  • To determine what policy interventions are necessary in creating an enabling environment for women to succeed in natural resources management enterprises based on analyses of experiences of specific case studies of success.
  • To determine any changes that may be necessary in education and training of women, legislation and any other measures in human resource development and institutional capacity building that will empower women to achieve success in natural resource management on an equal level with men

 

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