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What is WOCAN?
An international network
of women and men
professionals dedicated
to increasing rural
women’s access to and
control of resources to
manage agriculture and
natural resources in order
to enhance their
livelihoods and alleviate
poverty.
Mission
Build the leadership of
women in agriculture and
natural resource
management for
organizational
transformation for gender
equality through an
innovative approach of
partnering motivated
professional and rural
women.
Membership
For organizational
change
for advocacy
and for enhanced
decision making.
HOW: Leadership for Women
• Communication skills
• Negotiation skills
• Advocacy skills
• Confidence building
• Skills for agro-enterprise
HOW: Build Men’s Support
• Leadership training on
how to support women
leaders
• Encouraging heads of
organizations to support
organizational change
HOW: Build Enabling Environments
through Organizational Change
Build technical
capacity in gender
mainstreaming and
social/gender
analysis
Develop professionals
to act as ‘brokers’
between the
organizations and
rural women’s groups
Develop
organizational
accountability through
gender policies and
structures
Develop supportive
organizational
cultures: changing
norms, values and
attitudes
Strategy 2:
• Developing tradeable
forest and soil carbon
using REDD+ and private
voluntary markets
through management of
community forests and
agroforestry activities.
:
Establish Women’s Carbon
Fund as an innovative
and sustainable financing
mechanism to address
goals of poverty
alleviation, gender
equality and climate
change mitigation, based
on an analysis of the
market potential for a
premium carbon product
of women-run carbon
sequestration activities
that incorporates social
and environmental
values.
Development
Objectives
• SHORT TERM
– Action Research to Build knowledge on
making carbon work for poor rural women
• TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
– Through intermediaries
• LONG TERM
– Establish Seller’s Fund
Strategy 3: Advocate
A) Climate
change/REDD+
B)Food security
/environment /poverty
alleviation
C)women’s
rights/gender equality
HOW: WOCAN’s Advocacy
WOCAN facilitates
women to act as
advocates through: