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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 Clubs – Enhancing the resilience of rural men and women through community mobilization 2017
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No results found.Strengthening the resilience of rural households, communities and institutions is essential to eradicate hunger and malnutrition. In resilience work, the social dimension should be systematically included to prevent and mitigate the effects of shocks and crises in the life of men and women of rural communities. This dimension relates to gender equality, participation, social cohesion, communication, access to information, etc. To this end, FAO has developed and implemented a community-driven ap proach, named Dimitra Clubs, to empower rural people. The approach has been recognized as an FAO good practice for gender equality. The Dimitra Clubs are groups of women, men and young people who decide to organize themselves so as to work together to bring about changes in their communities. They meet regularly to discuss the challenges they face in their daily lives, make decisions and take collective action to resolve their problems. In this process, rural radio stations are used as a relay to increase the communication flow, provide access to knowledge and raise awareness on themes that have been identified and requested by the clubs themselves (food security and nutrition, access to water, land, sanitation, health, gender roles and relations, climate change adaptation in agriculture, conflict resolution, etc.). This webinar gave an overview of the implementation of the Dimitra Clubs approach, highlighted its results and impact on the resilience of rural men and women’s livelih oods, and discussed with the audience on its replicability and potential for upscaling. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetDimitra Clubs for improved food security and nutrition
A community-driven approach to empower rural women and men
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No results found.This roll-up is going to be produced in the framework of a side-event during the 44th Edition of the CFS. This Side-event is organized by the Kingdom of Belgium. EU and FAO as co-organizers. Information about the event: Title: Dimitra Clubs for improved food security and nutrition Subtitle: A community-driven approach to empower rural women and men Friday, 13 October | 13:00–14:30 | Iran room (B116) The objective is to ensure a successful event branding design: the roll-up will contain the title and date of the event, a nice picture of a Dimitra Club from DRC, a citation and the four logos of FAO, Belgium, EU and CFS.
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