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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetDimitra Clubs: Leaving no one behind through community engagement and women’s empowerment 2023
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No results found.The world is not on track in making the pledge of leaving no one behind a reality, particularly in rural areas where most of the extreme poor live. Rural people in low-income countries increasingly face structural constraints in seizing socio-economic and political opportunities. In addition, gender discriminatory social norms prevent rural women and girls from realizing their full potential as leaders and economic agents, constraining the livelihoods and well-being of entire rural societies. In this context, development and humanitarian actors tend to overlook the use of community engagement and gender-transformative approaches, despite the fact that these are cost effective and have high returns. Considering these pressing challenges, it is of paramount importance to promote collective action at community level – ensuring ownership and sustainability – to trigger transformative changes in terms of gender equality, women’s leadership and social inclusion. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetDimitra Community Clubs - Promoting collective action through a gender-transformative approach 2019
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No results found.Poverty is multidimensional and should, therefore, not be viewed solely from an income perspective, but as a combination of challenges that affect people’s wellbeing. Poor people often do not have a voice, an influence on decision-making, or an active role in the community. Addressing the non-economic dimensions of poverty and food insecurity is essential to overcoming the barriers that perpetuate social exclusion and gender inequalities. In response, FAO has developed Dimitra Clubs, which are being used as a successful model in sub-Saharan Africa to ensure rural people can actively participate in society and influence decision-making. The model helps to empower people through community mobilization, dialogue, the use of information and communications technology (ICT), collective action and self-help activities to improve livelihoods and gender equality. Through extension work and the use of radio clubs and digital technologies, communities are empowered with knowledge and skills to participate in the development process. They also have access to innovative agricultural practices to help mitigate the effects of climate change, to promote new techniques in animal husbandry, to make better agricultural crop choices and to farm for better nutrition. -
Book (stand-alone)Practical guide on how to eliminate gender-based violence and protect rural communities through food security and agriculture interventions
Guidance for FAO staff and partners
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No results found.Gender-based violence is a pervasive, persistent and global reality. Increasingly, it affects the environments where the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) operates, with impacts on agricultural and rural development, food security and nutrition, and rural poverty. Humanitarian emergencies, hunger, malnutrition and poverty tend to increase the prevalence of gender-based violence, which, in turn, undermines households, communities, and national food security and nutrition by impacting people’s livelihoods, health, skills and knowledge. This significantly reduces the resilience of survivors and weakens their capacity to be productive workers, earners and carers for the next generation, setting off a terrible circle of violence. With the new emerging global challenges and cries, including the COVID-19 pandemic, conflicts and climate change – poverty, food insecurity and gender-based violence are exacerbating. This called for a new updated guidance that addresses the new and intertwined challenges the world is now facing. This guidance is meant to support country offices, FAO staff and strategic partners in the fight against any form of gender-based violence, facilitate the integration of protection issues in an FAO project cycle, and support the collection and analysis of data disaggregated by sex and other social variables for generating the evidence for policy-making and planning of gender-responsive and gender-transformative interventions. The guide provides the needed tools and promising approaches and experiences of the last decade used successfully to address GBV and eliminate protection risks in the field. It is a continuing project that will evolve as FAO accumulates experiences and lessons learned in an ever-changing working environment.
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