Forum calls for more action on gender parity

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Nairobi - Women advocates should move away from campaigns on land ownership and access to capitalize on the existing opportunities in the ICT and micro-finance sectors to improve women livelihoods, an environmental forum has heard. 

The women and environment forum dubbed empowering women for sustainable natural resource management held on -4/03/2015 deliberated on how to promote gender equality in Africa and the policy and institutional interventions to enhance women participation in environmental management. 

  
Speakers at the forum said that gender equity on land tenure, is still rooted in social and cultural constraints that continue to hinder women’s productivity and livelihoods.

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Related links:
http://www.scidev.net/sub-saharan-africa/gender/news/gender-tech-empower-women-in-agriculture.html

http://www.scienceafrica.co.ke/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=406:women-s-voices-needed-in-natural-resource-management&catid=87&Itemid=586