Major Group: Women
Education of girls and women is essential for positive and sustainable change. We believe that
empowerment of women is highly unlikely without education. Vocational training for women is a
prerequsite to enhance their economic and livilihood opportunities, and it should be based on train-thetrainer
principle and should incorporate local knowledge systems..
Africa must use innovation to develop rural women user-friendly technologies both to reduce women's
workload and to increase productivity.
Accountability and transparency is essential to enable women and women's organizations to actively
participate in all sectors and at all levels of African development. Only then,. women of Africa can and will
move from managing poverty to eradicating it.
-intervention by Martha D. Hirpa, from Women Major Group, at the IPM-CSD 17, 2009
empowerment of women is highly unlikely without education. Vocational training for women is a
prerequsite to enhance their economic and livilihood opportunities, and it should be based on train-thetrainer
principle and should incorporate local knowledge systems..
Africa must use innovation to develop rural women user-friendly technologies both to reduce women's
workload and to increase productivity.
Accountability and transparency is essential to enable women and women's organizations to actively
participate in all sectors and at all levels of African development. Only then,. women of Africa can and will
move from managing poverty to eradicating it.
-intervention by Martha D. Hirpa, from Women Major Group, at the IPM-CSD 17, 2009