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Soumis par Sokhna Rokhaya GAYE le lun, 10/07/2017 - 22:21

Young African Women need to acquire professional, managerial and leadership skills  which are vital to do business in agriculture.

With The ENABLE Program, AFDB should develop business skills and capacities in agriculture of innovative and entrepreneurial young African women.

New approaches based on a combination of skills development, personal development and mentoring by African experts and leaders in business should be developed.  

Young African women need mentoring to establish the knowledge, organization and confidence to successfully scale up and be succesfull in their agricultural businesses.

The ENABLE program must provide an innovative and sustainable institutional model, with an approach, instruments, materials and trainers responding to Young African Women needs.

Sharing experiences and Lessons learnt is really important. It will help Young women to scale up in their businesses and to be self-confident.

AfDB should identify, in collaboration with young African women entrepreneurs, opportunities for young women from different aspects of agricultural innovation.

It is also important to:

  • do a diagnosis of opportunities from agricultural innovation and recognition of gender-related constraints,
  • identify solutions and key partners and mentors, 
  • facilitate training required,
  • strengthen business and financial management skills,
  • create  business linkages in the value chains concerned and across region
  • Motivate Young women with a special Young Women Fund for Starting up.

 

 

 

 

Soumis par Sokhna Rokhaya GAYE le dim, 18/06/2017 - 23:25

 

 

Gender Mainstreaming in agricultural value chain at country level. 

It is important to engender the value chain empowerment framework. It is then needed to deeply analyze structural and individuals constraints and opportunities for both men and women to upgrade in agricultural value chain. For a Feed Africa Strategy, AFDB should work to establish this framework which can be used to design programs that will ensure the transformation of African agricultural in a gender perspective.

The Bank should be aware and conscious that it’s remained some challenges in gender mainstreaming. We all agree on the fact that an analysis of gender relations is always the starting point. But, in practice, interventions are gender sightless because they just address the outlines of mainstreaming by giving trainings for women and  accentuating on numbers of participants ( X male and X female). Even if dealing with these outlines aims to bridge the gap and address the roots of inequalities, it may give an inaccurate indicative on gender relations and what is deeply in change along the value chain to mainstream and empower the missing categories.

From this point, I will emphasis on the importance of mainstreaming young people in agriculture and agricultural value chain.  They need to be attracted and to be maintained in agriculture for several reasons:  Bridge the gap of unemployment, transform agriculture with innovative ideas through ICT, reduce the gap in agricultural research which count few young people and ensure succession among others.

 This will need a great online debate to learn more about challenges and opportunities for youth in agriculture.