Women Empowerment
Women’s empowerment is one of the most persistent social challenges and opportunities. Gender inequalities manifest themselves in countless ways in every country and community across the globe. A concerted effort is needed to ensure that future generations of women aren’t burdened by the same barriers to maximizing their potential.
Farming
Objective: Increase women’s access to training, farm inputs and access to land, and landownership
Actions:
• Improve training approaches and content for female farmers and women working in small scale farms.
• Increase women’s documentation of sale of farm products as a critical enabler to be recognized as peasant farmer, and provide access to inputs and resources.
• Increase women’s access to finance, farm inputs, land ownership and membership of producer groups and cooperatives.
Community Development
Objective: Including women in decision-making processes.
Actions:
• Promote leadership positions for women as part of the Community Development Committees and Community Action Plan processes and include a floor of 30% for women representatives in the process.
• Ensure women are equally represented on all the committee levels such as chairperson and other key positions.
• Mentor women to help them take up leadership positions.
• Empower women through continued capacity building to play an active role in decision-making in households, communities and district and national farmer forums.
Youth
Objective: Include youth in our programming.
Actions:
• All youth-oriented programming will have quotas for 20%, to progressively attain 30% of participation by young women (15+ years old).
• Explore innovative new gender transformative programs through existing and new partners.
• Support literacy programs in collaboration with the Ghana Education Service and community reading clubs.
Livelihoods
Objective: Increase access to finance and development of additional livelihoods.
Actions:
• Help women develop other livelihoods by increasing their access to finance, improving business and entrepreneurial skills, and teaching the importance of household food security.
• Expand access to Village Savings & Loan Associations (VLSAs) and include other financial products tailored to women’s needs.
Environment
Objective: Ensure inclusion of women in environmental programming
Actions:
• Ensure that extension services (farmer field schools, etc.) for women to aligned with current environmental best practices (from UNDP, etc.).
• Evaluate opportunities for collaboration with additional gender and environment experts.
• Review all current farm training materials and manuals to ensure that they are best in class on both gender and environment, and are inclusive for illiterate farmers.
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