CARE International promotes women leadership in agriculture

Accra, on March 4, GNA-CARE International launched a female agricultural platform in the northern region to strengthen women's participation in local governance with the support of the United States International Development Agency.

According to the US International Development Agency feedforward program, the goal of this platform is to increase the opportunities for women to increase access to agricultural information and improve livelihoods.

This platform is part of the Northern Ghana Governance (NGGA) program of the United States Agency for International Development, and it is important that women participate in local governance with a stronger voice, ensure gender response to agricultural programs, and that resources improve livelihoods promotes it.

Speaking at the Tamale platform conference, NGGA governance and advocacy specialist Chrys Pul is trying to build a competent well-tuned network for women to find solutions to the challenges facing agriculture He said that he will help.

He stated that this will also create a possible environment for women, actively lead and participate in agriculture, influence decision making, and advise women to unite and ensure success It was.

In order to ensure improvements in agricultural production, women said they had to complement each other and cooperate with established agencies, including regional councils.

Several women expressed concern about some attitudes that hijacked the farmland and not allow women to participate and asked for measures to solve the problem, claiming that women can not be good farmers .

NGGA is a five-year project by the United States International Development Agency, conducted by the CARE International-led NGO Coalition, including Action Aid Ghana, WANEP-Ghana, SEND-Ghana in 28 regions in northern Ghana.

As part of future food plans, under the US government's global hunger and food security initiative, the NGGA will coordinate and integrate distributed agricultural projects to promote responsive governance and improve agricultural development in Ghana We promise to strengthen.

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To help rural women escape from poverty, in 2012, United Nations women, in collaboration with the World Food Program, Food and Agriculture Organization, and the International Agricultural Development Fund, through poor rural women through economic integration and food security initiatives We have launched a joint initiative to give power. Power This initiative aims to enable rural women to acquire land, leadership, opportunities and choices and participate in the development of laws, policies and programs. At the high level meeting of the 68th General Assembly of the United Nations, the United Nations women launched the Economic Empowerment Knowledge Portal with the support of the Canadian government. The new online platform is an open global community for knowledge transfer, innovation, and partnership. It aims to revitalize the economic empowerment of women by building relationships and connecting people who need resources with people who have resources.

The Women's Empowerment Agriculture Index (WEAI) measures women's empowerment, government agencies and inclusiveness in the agricultural sector. In the first sub-index, women in five areas of (1) agricultural production decisions, (2) access to and access to production resources, (3) control over the use of income, and (4) community leadership Evaluate empowerment. (5) Time Allocation The second sub index measures the achievement rate of women as high as at least men in their families, and for women who lack equality, the relative empowerment gap of family men Measure.