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The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA), in collaboration with FARA, Yam-Pukri, CAFAN, AYF, ANAFE, SPC/PAFPNET is organizing the Youth in Agriculture Blog Competition (YoBloCo Awards). This contest is launched in the framework of the ARDYIS initiative which aims to raise youth awareness and improve their capacity on agricultural and rural development issues in ACP countries using Information Technology. This blog competition aims to: - Put into limelight issues, successes and challenges faced by youth engaged in agriculture in urban and rural areas - Encourage the production of information and the use of new information technologies by young farmers’ groups and organizations interested in the “youth in agriculture” question;
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WOUGNET Projects
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Violence against women continues to be widespread and socially tolerated
despite the fact that it’s a human rights violation. Violence Against
women disempowers and negatively affects women’s health and productivity
sometimes resulting into death. In addition, the cost to women, their
children, families and communities is a significant obstacle to reducing
poverty, achieving gender equality and ensuring a peaceful transition
for post-conflict societies. ICTs play a major role in combating violence against women.
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WOUGNET Projects
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In Uganda, women entrepreneurs are involved in rural and urban informal
activities, dealing with their own produce or retailing from other
primary producers. Statistics show that in Uganda most women
operate business of micro and small size, 46% of micro and small
enterprises in Uganda are owned and operated by women where as 37%
are male owned. Thirteen (13%) are multi-owned and 4.5% are unknown.
Women in Uganda own enterprises that are involved in production of
beverages, textiles, services and retail trade. They do this in
addition to their reproductive roles of producing food for the family
and providing labor for agricultural production (Madanda 2009).
Considering the physical structure from which businesses are operated,
72% of women MSEs are operating from semi-permanent temporary or no
structure which makes their business insecure and quite costly in terms
of management and growth.
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Between 26 - 27 May 2011, Foundation for Community Development (FDC), Mozambique in collaboration with New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) hosted an African Business Women Conference in Maputo, Mozambique. This conference brought together women representatives in the world of business from Angola, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Zambia, South Africa and Mozambique. Uganda was represented by two members of Icon Women and Young People's Leadership Academy (iCON) through its intergenerational mentoring space for female social and business entrepreneurs-the Uganda Network of Women Entrepreneurs (UNWE). The purpose of this conference was to discuss the establishment of a Network of Business Women in Africa.
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eLearning Africa is a conference and exhibition organised by ICWE GmbH that focuses on information and communication technologies (ICTs) for development, education and training in Africa. Serving as a pan-African platform, eLearning Africa links a network of decision-makers from governments and administrations with universities, schools, governmental and private training providers, industry and important partners in development cooperation. Each year a different country hosts the event. This year’s conference took place in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania from 24th to 28th May 2011 with the theme “Youth, Skills & Employability” and attracted delegates from 90 countries around the world.
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