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Dimitra Newsletter 17, November 2009

 

Welcome to Dimitra Newsletter No. 17! This issue is devoted – as all our newsletters are – to the empowerment of women and men living in rural areas. Its focus this time is on the project's "Communicating Gender for Development" pilot trainings, its experiences with community listeners' clubs in the DRC and Niger, and the capitalisation of good practices in West Africa.

Download Newsletter 17 ( 1.7 MB) - Consult previous issues of the Dimitra Newsletter


  

Dimitra Workshop – Promoting women's access to land as a means of combating food insecurity and poverty

In September 2008, the FAO-Dimitra project organised its third workshop with all its partners in Brussels, on the theme: “Information and communication strategies to fight gender inequality as regards land access and its consequences for rural populations in Africa”. A synthesis of the workshop’s activities as well as the different articles which were prepared for the workshop by the participants – the partners of the network and FAO colleagues – are now gathered in a report.

Read more about the workshop - Download the report ( 4.4 MB)


 

Dimitra CD-ROM 2008 

Dimitra has produced a new CD-ROM which contains all of the information to be found on the Dimitra website and on-line database as of 15 February 2008, in English and French.

More information