Dimitra Workshop Reports
Knowledge sharing is essential in Dimitra’s work. During each workshop, seminar, meeting, etc., the project team carefully records the exchanges and makes them available in written or other formats (CD-ROM, films, audiotapes, etc.).
To consult reports, presentations and other documents related to the workshops and events Dimitra has (co-)organised, please click on the links below. Unless otherwise indicated, all files are in PDF (
) format.
Workshop report: Land access in rural Africa: Strategies to fight gender inequality
FAO-Dimitra workshop – 22-26 September 2008
Download the report ( 
- 4.4 MB)
Workshop Brochure: Women's access to land in West Africa: problems and suggested solutions in Senegal and Burkina Faso
Mbour, Senegal - 2-4 July 2008
The brochure ( - 1.6 MB) exists in French only.
Sub-regional workshop: What strategies should be adopted to boost rural women's participation in decision-making bodies so they can implement development policy in their territories?
Mbour, Senegal - 3-5 July 2007
The presentations and reports of this workshop are available in French only : Mbour Workshop
Workshop: Strengthening the Information, Communication and Gender Capacities of Farmers' Organisations and Community Radio Stations in Katanga Province
Lubumbashi, DRC - 4-8 June 2007
- The presentations and reports of this workshop are available in French only : Lubumbashi Workshop
- A brochure which summarizes the key ideas of the presentations, discussions and recommendations of the workshop was produced in five languages:
Download the brochures: French - Kiswahili - Lingala - Tshiluba - Kikongo (about 3 MB each)
Inaugural workshop: Strengthening the gender and communication skills of community radio stations, listeners' clubs and rural women's networks in South Kivu
Bukavu, DRC - 8-11 February 2007
The inaugural workshop of the project with the same title was organised by Sauti ya Mwanamke Kijijini, SAMWAKI, with the support of FAO/Dimitra, the King Baudouin Foundation and the Comité National Femme et Développement (CONAFED - National Committee Women and Development).
- Final report of the inaugural workshop (French only)
National meetings on information and communication strategies for rural women's networks
Senegal and Uganda, February 2007
In February 2007, two of Dimitra's partner organizations, in Uganda and Senegal, organized a follow up activity to the Dimitra/CTA online discussion on rural women's networks that took place from January to June 2006
Strengthening of the communication capacities of community radios and rural women's networks in Sud-Kivu
Women's involvement in the electoral process, the fight against sexual violence and impunity, gender and DDR (Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reinsertion) and the fight against HIV/AIDS
Bukavu, DRC - 23-28 February 2006
The below documentation is available in French only.
- Programme of the workshop
- Final Report of the workshop
- List of participants
- Eliane Najros, Dimitra: Communiquer le genre pour le développement
- Jean-Pierre Ilboudo, Communication for Development Specialist, FAO:
- Emma Atchrimi, Project Coordinator, Fight Against Sexual Violence, UNFPA: ONG: Prévention et réponse aux violences sexuelles
- CONADER, Commission Nationale de Désarmement, Démobilisation et Réinsertion:
- Luz Piedad Caicedo, Corporación Humanas (Colombia): La CPI et la Protection des droits des femmes
- Aster Bashige, GTZ-Santé, South Kivu: Lutte contre le VIH-SIDA
- Marie-Antoinette Saya, Adviser GED/UAP:
- Viviane Bikuba, Unifem Bukavu: Genre et Communication dans les techniques de production radio
Dimitra/CTA Joint Workshop on: Rural women, dynamisation of networks and the fight against HIV/AIDS in rural areas
Brussels, Belgium - 13-17 June 2005
- Overview of the workshop
- Sophie Treinen, FAO: New ICTs for networking: opportunities and challenges
- CTA partnerships: gender-related regional networks
- CTA Brussels: Support to the ACP-EU Dialogue
- Isolina Boto, Head of the CTA Brussels Office: CTA perspective on HIV/AIDS and agriculture
- Jean Delion, AFTS2, World Bank: Soutien à des réseaux de femmes dans les programmes soutenus par la Banque Mondiale
- Jean-Pierre Ilboudo, Spécialiste de la Communication pour le développement, FAO: L'intérêt de la mise en réseau des radios communautaires
- Oumy K. Ndiaye, CTA: CTA - Programme de radio rurale
Download the full workshop report (3.4MB)
New Information and Communication Technologies and Women's Promotion
Rabat, Morocco, 10-11 June 2004
- Programme
- List of participants
- Opening speech (French)
- Summary of the results of group discussions (Arabic)
- Summary of the results of group discussions (French)
- Report of the seminar (in French and Arabic -
document)
For more information contact AMSED
Dimitra/Women'sNet Regional Workshop: Advancing Rural Women's Empowerment: ICTs in the Service of Good Governance, Democratic Practice and Development for Rural Women in Africa
Johannesburg, South Africa - 23-25 February 2004
- Bénie Razafindriaka, ONE, Madagascar: Situation des TIC au Madagascar
- Dorothy Okello, Wougnet, Uganda: Future Generation Wireless Networks: Opportunities and Challenges and ICT access for rural women: policy and advocacy
- Sandra Roberts, Sangonet, South Africa: CINSA - Supporting Community ICT projects in the SADC region
- Summary and conclusions of the e-consultation held from 11-24 February 2004 to widen the space for dialogue and the sharing of experiences, information and resources
Additional papers and presentations from the workshop are available on the Women'sNet website
Rural Women and Land
Thiès, Senegal - 25-27 February 2003
- Programme (in French)
- Recommendations
- Presentation of Mr Edouard K. Tapsoba, FAO Representative, Senegal
- Opening speech of Ms Awa Guèye Kebe, Minister for the Family and National Solidarity
- Ms Ndéye Soukèye Gueye, Director of the Credit Project for Women, Ministry for the Family and National Solidarity, Senegal
- Mr Jacques Faye , rural sociologist (in French)
- Testimony of Ms Fatou N’diaye Leyla, Member of the Conseil National de Concertation des Ruraux (CNCR), Linguère, Senegal (in French)
- Testimonies of women from two rural areas in Senegal during visits by Kouthia, a national entertainer (in French)
- Ms Mabrouka Gasmi, CREDIF, Tunisia (in French)
- Ms Rahamata Ilboudo, RECIF/ONG, Burkina Faso (in French)
- Mr Ali Abdoulaye, ONG-VIE, Niger (in French)
- Ms Fatouma Younsa, Fédération des Unions des Groupements Paysans du Niger – Mooriben, Niger (in French)
- Mr Togola Siaka, AMAPROS, Mali (in French)
- Femmes rurales et terres de culture, Position paper by Enda Pronat
- Femmes rurales et transmission du foncier, Position paper by Enda Pronat
- Femmes rurales et ressources naturelles, Position paper by Enda Pronat
- Les femmes du milieu rural et le développement socio-économique à Madagascar, Position paper by ONE, Madagascar
- Les femmes et les ressources naturelles, Position paper by ONE, Madagascar
- Women's Right to Land: a human right, Press Release, 8 March 2002, FAO Gender and Development Service
- Rural women: crucial partners in the fight against hunger and poverty, Side Event, World Food Summit Five Years Later, 10-13 June 2002
- Land tenure and Land Management, FAO Gender and Food Security Service
- Land tenure, FAO Rural Development Division
- Women's right to land and natural resources: Some implications for a human rights-based approach, FAO Rural Development Division
- Agenda 21 - Chapter 14, UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), Rio de Janerio, Brazil, 3-14 June 1992
Press
- Outdated Values Keep Rural Women Landless by Adel Arab, IPS, 15 April 2003
- Press cutting from 'Le Soleil', Senegal (in French), 27 February 2003
Dimitra Relaunch Workshop - Phase II
Brussels, 21-24 October 2002
- Full programme
- Programme of the closing day at the King Baudouin Foundation
- Full report of the Workshop
- Ms Martine Van Dooren, General Adviser, Directorate-General for International Cooperation, Belgium
- Mr Ali Abdoulaye, Coordinator of ONG-VIE, Niger
- Ms Mariam Sow, Coordinator of Enda PRONAT, Senegal
- Mr Manfred Lindau, Director, FAO Liaison Office with EU and Belgium
- Ms Sissel Ekaas, Director, Gender and Population Division, FAO
- Mr Luc Tayart de Borms, Managing Director, King Baudouin Foundation, Brussels
- Ms Hélène Ryckmans, Representative of the network Le Monde selon les Femmes and, President of the Belgian Women and Development Commission
- Ms Betty Minne, Gender adviser, Cabinet of the Secretary of State for Development Cooperation (Belgium)
- Ms Natasha Primo, Coordinator, Women'sNet, South Africa
- Mr Jean-Pierre Ilboudo, Communication Specialist, FAO
