Women Organizing For Change In Agriculture & NRM

This is a WOCAN project supported by Heifer International, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and CARE Nepal to mobilize women and men professionals, and groups and organizations representing poor rural women in Africa and South Asia, to transform agriculture and natural resource management organizations so that the roles and leadership of women as farmers, environmental managers, professionals and decision-makers are fully recognized and supported, in order to assure the equal distribution of responsibilities, rights, benefits and power for rural women to improve their lives, reduce poverty and practice sustainable development. Specifically, the goal is to assist poor rural women emerge from poverty by a) more effectively managing their own agricultural assets, including labour, knowledge and other assets, b) gain access to agricultural and natural resource management (NRM) technologies, services, inputs and markets, and c) have more effective inputs into decision making processes of agricultural and natural resource management organizations that can affect their livelihoods.