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Webinar 1 - Experience Capitalization and Knowledge Management: What is it and why is it important? The first webinar in our series on experience capitalization
Communication and ICTs

On Tuesday, 28 March 2023, YenKasa Africa regional initiative, in partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), held the first session of a series of webinars aimed at strengthening the capacity of organizations in knowledge management. The webinar series in French reviews the online course on “Experience capitalization for continuous learning”. This course is available free of

Experience Capitalization: Would you like to know what experience capitalization, knowledge management is?
Communication and ICTs

To learn more, register for this series of webinars on experience capitalization in French. Registration is open now! How many times have you been told “we don’t need to reinvent the wheel”? How many times have you been asked to take stock of what has been done in your organization? Do you want to know how to learn from the past, how to share and transfer knowledge? If so, this

“Women Peasant are Women: Understanding violence against rural women in Eastern and Southern Africa” publication launched in Mozambique
Gender and youth

UNAC and La Via Campesina Southern and Eastern Africa (LVC SEAf) proceeded on Friday morning, March 17, 2023, at the Brazil-Mozambique Cultural Center, in Maputo, to launch the publication “Women Peasant are Women: Understanding violence against rural women in Eastern and Southern Africa”, a document that addresses the violence that peasant women have been subjected to in the regions of Eastern and Southern Africa. The occasion gathered 93 people, mostly

Be the change and take action: 22 March 2023, World Water Day
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The 2023 UN focus on World Water Day is accelerating change to solve the water and sanitation crisis. This year’s global campaign is called Be the change, and it encourages people to take action in their own lives to change how they use, consume and manage water. World Water Day is celebrated annually on March 22nd to raise awareness about the importance of freshwater. Water is essential for all life

Water is life: Spread the word
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Water, they say, is life! Sanitation is also described as a way of life, and is defined as the means of preventing human contact with the hazard of human waste in order to promote health. Clean water helps create good sanitation and better hygiene. This, in turn, leads to good health. Poor sanitation, water, and hygiene have many serious repercussions. Children – and particularly girls – are denied their right

FAO and International Trade Centre renew commitment to empower women agrifood traders in African Continental Free Trade Area
Gender and youth

Phase II of joint programme doubles investment, expands to two new countries, and introduces component on women’s access to finance The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Trade Centre’s (ITC) SheTrades Initiative have launched Phase II of the EWAT programme: Empowering women and boosting livelihoods through agricultural trade: Leveraging the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). Spanning across four countries, Ghana, Malawi, Nigeria and

EVENT | Raising women’s voices for food security and gender equality
Gender and youth

Raising women’s voices for food security and gender equality When: March 29, 11 a.m. ET, 3 p.m. GMT Register: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_m_42ydgqTlKp-UYm4X9otQ *This bilingual event will have live translation between English and French. On March 29, Farm Radio International will be hosting this bilingual event (French and English live translation) to explore lessons learned which can help development organizations build better projects. Too often, our right to information — to make informed decisions

International Women's Day, 8 March 2023: women, communication, ICT, agriculture.
Gender and youth

The United Nations theme for International Women’s Day (IWD) 2023 is “DigitALL – Innovation and technology for gender equality”. It aims to leverage the transformative power of inclusive digitalization and innovation for rural women and girls. International Women’s Day (IWD) is a global day to commemorate and uphold women’s achievements and raise awareness on a reconfirming commitment to gender equality. It also marks a call to action for accelerating gender

Tips for engaging women in your radio program
Communication and ICTs

Women play a central role in families, communities, and societies. But women and girls face struggles every day simply because of their gender. They may be limited in what resources they can access, where they can farm, if they can go to school, and what they can eat. In many places, women do not have control over the crops they grow or even their own bodies. It’s important to share

The WRF and the Forest and Farm Facility promote the catalytic role of cooperativism in empowering rural women
Gender and youth

As a result of the project implemented in 2021 and 2022, the WRF and the Forest and Farm Facility (FFF), in close collaboration with six regional agricultural organizations in Africa, Asia, and the Americas, promote the central role that associations and cooperatives in the empowerment and resilience of rural women. The project identified and analyzed successful experiences to pinpoint the key elements for success, the main challenges, and the role of cooperatives