Investing in Rural Women's Leadership: A Solution to Counter Marginalization, CSW62

A CSW62 parallel event

Event Details

  • Time

    02:30pm

  • Date

    13 Mar, 2018

  • Location

    • Salvation Army Downstairs
    • 221 East 52nd Street New York, NY
  • Contact

    WLP

Julie Cissé

WLP Senegal: Initiatives for Social Progress Group/West Africa Region

Joy Ngwakwe

WLP Nigeria:  Center for Advancement of Development Rights (CEADER)

2018 CSW

WLP and partner organization, CRTD-A, combine for a panel discussion and parallel event of the 62nd session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW).

Women and girls bear the brunt of development failures and suffer most from the absence of infrastructure in rural areas, compounded by the impact of traditional gender roles, constrained mobility, discriminatory laws, and limited access to education.

Panelists from the Middle East and Africa will argue that investing in and nurturing leadership and collective action among rural women have the ability to bring about changes in women's positions, increase access to services, increase access to and control over land, and bring women to decision-making circles to address endemic crises in rural areas.

Aziza Abemba of WLP Zimbabwe/WSPM will speak on income generating initiatives as an entry point to rural women organising for change in Zimbabwe.

Julie Cisse of WLP Senegal/GIPS/WAR will speak on the experience of the "World moves with women campaign" in fighting the nefarious impacts of climate change.

Gökçen Durutaş of WLP Turkey/KEDV will speak on the women cooperatives model and its outreach to Syrian women refugees.

Aziza Khalidi of WLP-Lebanon/CRTD.A will speak on rural women's traditional knowledge as key to a rational use of natural resources in Lebanon.

Joy Ngwakwe of WLP Nigeria/CEADER to speak on challenges facing rural women in Nigeria.

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