Strengthening women’s leadership and empowerment : ensuring women’s economic rights (FLOW project)
Developing countries are home to 98% of the world’s undernourished people (FAO, 2012) and 60% of women are affected by hunger (ECOSOC, 2007). Almost half of Senegal’s population lives below the poverty line, on less than $1 (ANSAD, 2007).
Women suffer most from this situation (World Bank, 2009), and the phenomenon is more common in towns than in the countryside.
Paradoxically, there is a major imbalance between the principle of equality and the actual enjoyment of women’s rights. In terms of representation, access to decision-making powers and consideration of specific concerns, men and women are not on the same equal footing in Senegal.
Despite the attention paid to women through the Beijing Action Programme, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Millennium Development Goals and the law on parity (recently passed in Senegal), women continue to encounter difficulties in effectively fulfilling their multiple roles in their communities.
General objective of the programme
The aim of the programme is to develop women’s capacities and strengthen their leadership so that they can participate more fully in decision-making at various levels, in order to guarantee their economic self-sufficiency.
The specific objectives are to :
- master the main communication tools and mechanisms: (to develop and/or strengthen rural women’s capacities and opportunities for expression and action) ;
- build their capacity (particularly through training) support rural women in analysing situations, consulting, negotiating and defending their rights and interests (particularly in terms of food security, access to land, water, education, health and productive resources)
- promote the emergence of women leaders and support them in the process of empowerment;
- encourage women leaders to carry out advocacy work.
Expected Results
Result 1: The leadership capacities of 100 women (in particular small-scale farmers, agricultural workers, indigenous women and women from poor urban areas) are strengthened.
Result 2: Political decision-makers and opinion leaders in Senegal and internationally are informed about the need for political support for women in food security (women’s rights to land and productive resources and their increased role in food production and agriculture).
Preparation of posters providing information and signalling for a safe pesticide management in FPA unions (Bey Dunde project).
Support project to the rice sector for food safety « BEY DUNDE »
Raising awareness among schoolchildren and preparation of posters providing information and signalling for a safe pesticide management in the Unions of Federation of self-managed perimeters in Senegal (FPA).
1. The context of the intervention
The “Bey Dunde” rice sector support project for food security is based in the Senegal River delta. As part of the project’s activities, an Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP) is being implemented, which includes a major section on the safe use and management of pesticides. Following contact with the Bey Dunde project, PAN Africa proposed to produce posters providing information and signalling for the seven (7) hydraulic unions of the FPA.
PAN Africa is an information and action network for pesticide control. As part of its activities, it has acquired over a decade’s experience in preparing and distributing awareness-raising tools (posters, brochures, etc.) in various languages (international and local) dealing with various aspects of pesticide management.
2. Objectives of the mission
The objective is to produce posters providing information and signalling for a safe use and management of pesticides in the seven (7) hydraulic unions of the FPA. These are the Unions : Pont-Gendarme, Thilène, Boundoum, Kassack nord, Kassack sud, Thiagar and Dagana.
