The maiden meeting of the Women Organizing for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resources Management (WOCAN) came off on Thursday, 4th December, 2008 at the Ellking Hotel, East Legon, Accra. The purpose of this meeting was to introduce WOCAN to professionals and practitioners in Agriculture and Natural Resources Management and also those interested in gender issues and the mainstreaming of these issues in the overall development agenda, and to share with them results of the AWID Forum in South Africa.