Testimonials

If our continent is to progress, there must be parity for its women in their access to land, finance, agricultural inputs and technology (...) That is why the African Union's (AU), 2012 Initiative to Empower Women in Agriculture (EWA) in Africa is timely and significant (...) The positive examples of countries like Ethiopia that have excelled in agriculture and increased its GPD through agriculture. I encourage EWA partners to replicate this model. (...) And because being a woman and an advocate for women’s rights, I will always do all in my power to enable women to play their true role and rise to their fullest potential, in the hope that the day will come – hopefully in my lifetime – when such advocacy will no longer be the norm, but an anomaly. In this regard, I salute the Co-Chair, President Kagame, for the tremendous status of women in his country.

This initiative (EWA) can be related to several initiatives of UNECA, among them the work undertaken on the land issue, in partnership with the African (AU) Union and International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), a programme on land policy in Africa was developed on the question of women’s access to land, and how it enables them to have access to other resources including finances in order to see how policies impact women