During the recent Global Meeting of the Women’s Leadership Circles (WLCs) in Nairobi, Kenya, women farmers expressed the following points
‘..in reality the powerful people do not understand what is happening at the grass roots’
‘..we learned professional women face the same discrimination as us’
‘..collective action has helped to amplify our voices’
Call for Action
– our needs and good practices need higher visibility
– we need funding for coordination for our collective efforts and for our leadership development’
– we need more training on advocacy
– we require access to information and resources , such as is provided through the Women’s Leadership Circle meetings.
Ministers and leaders acknowledged the need to close the gaps between policy and practice and responded to farmers’ call for action with the following:
‘..thank you for helping us break out of the environment silo’
‘..we appreciate the exchange of good practices’
‘..we need to enlarge the space provided to gender and make women farmer’s voices heard’
It was also acknowledged that this meeting of farmers and ministers and leaders hosted by WOCAN is just a starting point; concrete actions and steps need to be developed to move forward progressively.
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