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Capacity Development Support to Rural Women on the Socio-economic and Gender Aspects of Sustaianbel Rural Development

Year of publication 2016

Pages 8p.

Author Hajnalka Petrics

Publisher FAO Subregional Office for Central Asia (SEC) ;

Product type Brochure, flyer, fact-sheet

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) This project, started in 2014 under the FAO-Turkey Partnership Programme, was developed to improve services for rural women by enhancing the capacity of institutions and of agricultural extension and rural advisory services staff in Turkey and Azerbaijan. The project’s ultimate objective was to promote rural women’s socio-economic integration and enhance their income generation skills, by increasing rural women’s capacity and improving the design and delivery of gendersensitive agricultural exte nsion and rural advisory services. The project put the utmost emphasis on enhancing rural women’s knowledge and skills in agricultural production and related activities. It also emphasized the development of tools and methods to help design demand-focused programmes that effectively respond to the needs of farmers, especially women farmers. In addition, good practices and experiences of the Rural Women Services Unit of the Department of Training, Extension and Publication of the MFAL were shared . In the long term, it is expected that through more effective targeting, delivery of services and better impact assessment, public extension and rural advisory services will be able to reach rural women more efficiently. Rural women will improve their knowledge, skills and capacities in agricultural production and economic diversification, which will lead to socio-economic development, including rural income generation and improved household food security and livelihoods. The project also contr ibuted to FAO’s efforts in rural poverty reduction, as well as its support for innovation in service provision

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