The Government of the Republic of Cameroon and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) has signed a technical assistance agreement aimed at reinforcing gender mainstreaming in the Agricultural Value Chain Development Project. The accord was signed in Yaounde on February 13, 2018 between the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Henri Eyebe Ayissi on behalf of the government of Cameroon and the Resident Representative of UN Women, Adama Moussa in the presence of the Minister of Women’s Empowerment and the Family, Prof Marie Therese Abena Ondoa.
UN Women will provide technical assistance for the gender mainstreaming component of the Agricultural Value Chain Development Project. According to the UN Women Resident Representative, the UN entity will within the 2-year span of the contract (2018-2020) will engage in capacity building, institutional reinforcement of producers’ organisations, support in research and seeds production amongst others. UN Women, he said, will not only contribute in improving on the representative of women in producers’ cooperatives organisations but will also help in realising the global objectives of the project.
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Henri Eyebe Ayissi, on his part, stated the pivotal role of rural women in agricultural development. Thus, the involvement of the UN entity is to surmount the challenges the woman folk face in participating i...
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