Concentrer les efforts sur les femmes rurales dans le cadre des Objectifs de développement durable
« À l’échelle mondiale, et à quelques exceptions près, la situation des femmes rurales est pire que celle des hommes des zones rurales et des hommes et des femmes des zones urbaines pour chaque indicateur des OMD pour lesquels des données sont disponibles. » (Équipe spéciale interinstitutions sur les femmes rurales, fiche d’information sur les femmes rurales, 2012)
Les institutions basées à Rome (Organisation pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture (FAO), le Fonds international pour le développement agricole (FIDA), le Programme alimentaire mondial (PAM)) accueilleront, le 6 février, un événement parallèle sur le thème des femmes rurales dans le cadre des ODD, durant la huitième session du Groupe de travail ouvert sur les objectifs de développement durable, tenue à New York.
Cette discussion en ligne a pour but de favoriser une discussion plus large sur le thème des femmes rurales. Cet échange n'a pas pour but d’alimenter directement la réunion en soi, mais l'approche inclusive du groupe de travail ouvert encourage les débats sur des sujets liés au thème de chaque session.
Dans le monde entier, les femmes rurales jouent un rôle central pour soutenir leurs ménages et leurs communautés et parvenir à la sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle, créer des revenus, et améliorer les moyens d'existence rurale et le bien-être général. Elles contribuent à l'agriculture et aux entreprises rurales, et alimentent les économies locales et mondiales. Elles sont, en cette qualité, des actrices actives dans la réalisation des OMD.
Et pourtant, les femmes et les filles rurales connaissent chaque jour, dans le monde entier, des contraintes structurelles persistantes qui ne leur permettent pas de jouir pleinement de leurs droits humains et qui compromettent les efforts qu'elles déploient pour améliorer leur vie et celle de leurs proches.
Les populations rurales pauvres sont confrontées à de multiples formes de privations et de discrimination. Les femmes rurales sont celles qui connaissent le plus d'entraves pour accéder aux ressources productives, elles font aussi l'objet d'une situation désavantagée et de l'exclusion profondément enracinée dans les inégalités du rapport de force associées au rôle de genre, et elles constituent une partie majoritaire des pauvres ruraux.
Cet événement parallèle aura pour but d'apporter un soutien à la huitième session du GTO sur le thème de « la promotion de l'égalité, y compris l'égalité sociale, l'égalité entre les sexes et l'autonomisation des femmes ». Il permettra d'analyser différentes façons de garantir que le Programme de développement pour l'après 2015 améliore la condition des femmes moyennant l'application d'une approche basée sur les droits et de politiques, stratégies et interventions ciblées plus perfectionnées, s'appuyant sur le renforcement de la gouvernance et d’institutions pertinentes. Il va notamment permettre d’analyser les priorités requises pour améliorer les moyens d'existence, l'accès à la justice et les droits juridiques, l'autonomisation économique et l'accès des femmes rurales à la prise de décisions à tous les niveaux, et démontrer ainsi que l'amélioration des conditions de vie des femmes dans les zones rurales peut contribuer à la réalisation de tous les objectifs de développement. Une attention particulière sera accordée aux cibles aux indicateurs basés sur des données ventilées en fonction du sexe afin d'effectuer un suivi plus efficace des progrès accomplis dans les vies des femmes rurales.
Le groupe sera composé de représentants de haut niveau des trois organisations partenaires, une organisation de femmes rurales et au moins un représentant d'un gouvernement national.
Vos opinions et vos avis sur le thème des femmes rurales constitueront une contribution précieuse à la discussion en ligne en vue de l'événement parallèle qui sera tenu dans le cadre du Groupe de travail ouvert. Nous attendons avec impatience vos réponses aux questions suivantes.
1. Si vous pouviez faire une intervention lors de l'événement parallèle sur les femmes rurales durant la huitième session du Groupe de travail ouvert à New York, quelle serait-elle ?
2. Les femmes rurales sont souvent décrites comme des agents fondamentaux de changement dans toutes les discussions relatives aux objectifs de développement durable. Dans quelle mesure la réalisation de la sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle des femmes rurales pourrait-elle accélérer le développement durable ?
3. De nombreuses données ou statistiques concernant les femmes rurales, quelle est, à votre avis, la plus significative ?
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Support for rural women in the new post 2015 development agenda should be given by advocating for equal rights to land for women and men. Resources can be found here: http://www.landpost2015.landesa.org
Dear Moderator ,
The following are ares that I would contribute on focusing on rural women in sustainable development goals:
1) Access and control on productive resources especially land.
2) Access to credit, financial services and markets
3) Being part of value-chain actors (Active participation on value-chains)
4) Being part of decision making bodies.
5) Promotion of maternal health education
6) Prevention of gender based violence
7) Training on gender equality and rights.
Dr Charles KAYUMBA
Heifer International Country Director
Rwanda
1. If you could make an intervention at the side event on rural women at the 8th session of the Open Working Group in New York, what would be its key message?
Rural women are often described as critical agents of change in discussions on sustainable development goals. To what extent would the achievement of food and nutrition security for rural women help accelerate sustainable development?
In my opinion a key message that cannot be missed is that, in the light of sustainable development, the concept of food sovereignty is much more gender proactive than the food security notion. As you say, women can be critical agents, but this is enhanced manyfold using a food sovereignty focus. The appeal should thus be for UN agencies sponsoring this 8th session to give-in to this paradigmatic change . Public interest civil society has been making this point to FAO and other agencies for long, but to no avail. The 8th session is yet another chance to make this unpostponable appeal.
Claudio Schuftan, Ho Chi Minh City
I think we need to expand to other countries the successful experiences of existing worldwide economic inclusion. In Brazil , for example , the creation of specific organs and councils with social participation has helped in building policies specific to women, such as credit limits for the production of food from their organizations ( PRONAF - woman). Agricultural marketing women have special treatment in the shares of the Food Acquisition Program . The National Plan of Policies for Women was built with the women's movement and has goals for gender equality and economic empowerment. Progress was made in granting titles to the land on behalf of women and process in the issuance of the Statement of Fitness for Pronaf , essential for access to government subsidies. The Thousand Women Program empowers women to professions seen as masculine , such as construction , drivers , electricians , painters and about U.S. $ 260 million ( $ 130 million ) will be invested in fighting violence against women by 2015.
1. If you could make an intervention at the side event on rural women at the 8th session of the Open Working Group in New York, what would be its key message?
We must guarantee the basic and respect the diversity. For rural women it materializes in good education for their children, a trustful health system in the rural area, letting women more confident about her family health, professional education for the women, aiming to give them tools to improve their income and to be included in the regional market (causing also more self esteem, essential for their human development), and last, a better way for them to communicate. Women are wonderful in communicating their issues and the solutions they have found for it. But usually rural areas have no internet access and bad phone access - so we lose a great potential of knowledge and they lose great chance to know more on how to change their reality.
2. Rural women are often described as critical agents of change in discussions on sustainable development goals. To what extent would the achievement of food and nutrition security for rural women help accelerate sustainable development?
Well, when they are confident about what to eat until the end of the month and about their children health, they can work better, educate their children better and also be wiser to produce on their lands.
3. Of the many facts or stats recorded on rural women, which one do you consider to be the most revealing?
The constant unsafeness they live about their children education and health. The low level of technical education or information they have to make their decision and to make their lives. Usually rural areas seems a more men space, but when getting inside houses and families, women are the balance of the family working. They are so away of special policies for their development, human and educational.
1. If you could make an intervention at the side event on rural women at the 8th session of the Open Working Group in New York, what would be its key message?
As the Copenhagen Consensus (2012) has concluded, the consumption of protein and micro-nutrients is the most cost-effective way to address health and physical development among the working poor in developing countries. This objective can be achieved in a sustainable manner, with new jobs being created for rural women. Malnutrition Matters has implemented numerous projects in rural Asia and sub-Saharan Africa where micro-nutrient-fortified soymilk is made and profitably sold to consumers making ca. $2/day. The stainless steel VitaGoat system, designed by Malnutrition Matters, which pressure-cooks 30L of soymilk per hour at 110C in a fuel-efficient way, with no need for electricity, running water or packaging, can operate in the most basic environment. It can provide a 200ml serving of soymilk with 7g of protein and the RDA for Vitamin A, Iron, Vitamin B12, Vitamin C, Folic Acid and Zinc for less than 7 cents per serving. The VitaGoat can reach 1,000 beneficiaries per day and create 4 to 5 full-time rural jobs per system. There are 250 VitaGoats installed today, with over 100,000 continuous beneficiaries, and some have been operating for 10 years. Local produce is used and there is no 'profit eakage' outside the community. A quadruple benefit is realized: significant improvement in nutrition affordable to rural poor, sustainable job creation for rural women, increased demand and revenue for local produce (soybeans) and much lower impact on the environment than with animal protein. See malnutrition.org for more information. Spreadsheets are avialable to demonstrate the sustainable business model realized at various operational sites.
2. Rural women are often described as critical agents of change in discussions on sustainable development goals. To what extent would the achievement of food and nutrition security for rural women help accelerate sustainable development?
I believe that achieving food and nutrition security for rural women in a sustainable manner, is itself a vital part of sustainable development. Because it would result in much less malnutrition and stunting, the populace would experience much greater 'value in life-years' (VLYs) due to good health and prper physical and neurological development, which would enable the GDP of that region / country to increase substantially. Please see the attached comment on the recent Lancet Commission : 'Global Health 2035' for further thoughts on the role of nutrition in achieving greater health and contributing to sustainable development.
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