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NEW SOCIAL IMAGES OF RURAL WOMEN
THE TRANSNATIONAL COOPERATION
In the frame of the second round of the EQUAL Initiative..
our four national Development Partnerships from
Estonia “Establishment and implementation of farmers relief service”
Italy “WEBFEM Web For Empowerment”
Slovakia“By gender research towards employment equality in the conditions of mountain
rural areas of Slovakia”
Spain“Cherries for equality”
agreed to produce among other what we havecalled an
Album of New Social Images of Rural Women “New Social Images of Rural Women”
ESTONIA
ITALY
SLOVAKIA
SPAIN
Why?
The social, economic and cultural changes undergone by our societies in the last decade, marked among other by employment challenges, the surge of information and communication technologies and gender issues, have had a particular, and more or less positive, impact on the rural world.
Women play a vital role, not always visible, not always acknowledged by society as a whole, in society’s development, and particularly so in rural areas.
Their opportunities, activities, roles and positions are changing, generating what we are trying to identify as “New Social Images”
Our aim is
to disseminate these new images
to make them visible, in order to foster and transfer new models leading to more sustainable and equal employment and participation opportunities in the rural areas
to contribute to deconstruct stereotypes that act as barriers against higher levels of equality and equity between women and men
What we have in common... We work in our national projects in marginal rural territories
And in these, we share two basic underlying problems:
The lack of equal opportunities regarding the access of some sections of their population (be it rural native women, migrant women or farmers in general) to:
employment economic activities decision-taking positions
The existence of structures and models leading to horizontal and vertical
segregation particularly discriminating rural women, who lack
the skills the qualifications the empowerment the visibility needed to fully participate as key agents of rural development
The objectives of the NSIRW project
To promote new images of rural women
To remove various common stereotypes
To encourage new models that lead towards a situation of effective parity between men and women at work and in their participation in the social life of rural areas
Here we are..
We set up a Steering Committee consisting of 2-3 representatives of each national partnership, most of whom had already met and worked together during the planning stage
How we have worked together in order to achieve the principal objectives of our project?
Over the 23-month period of the project (from July 2005 to May 2007) the committee has met 5 times on the occasion of as many Transnational Meetings
Together we have…
analysed and compared the methods and processes developed within the national projects
shared our experiences and the difficulties encountered, as well as the knowledge acquired in the area
We have focused on:
research practices aimed at identifying specific roles, needs and expectations of
the women who live and/or work in rural areas training
given to women in rural areas, with particular attention to those innovative measures put into effect to enable women to overcome the obstacles that they generally encounter in seeking access to training in rural areas (use of ICT instruments, conciliation services)
other solutions tried out in various areas, such as
1. relief service2. multifunctional agriculture3. instruments for promoting gender mainstreaming in rural areas4. approaches and methods for promoting empowerment and
leadership for rural women
Fundamental stages in this programme were the 5 Transnational Meetings
during 4 of which, alongside the steering committee meetings, there were also:
workshops on particular themes
public seminars
technical visits in which many representatives of the 4 national partnerships also took part, and which were the invaluable
source of mutual knowledge and benefit
July 2005 Estonia Meeting, Workshop “Farmers Replacement Service and
Women in Multifunctional Agriculture”, technical visits
December 2005 Italy Meeting
June 2006 Spain Meeting, Workshop “Key aspects to promote women’s
empowerment in the rural areas”, technical visits
December 2006 Italy Meeting, public seminar “Multifunctional experiences: from past
to present”, technical visits
May 2007 Slovakia Meeting, public seminar “New social image of rural women”,
technical visits
Other important steps in the transnational programme were the
study visits of the beneficiaries of the Estonian, Italian and Spanish projects
April 2006 visit by 9 women and 14 men beneficiaries of the
Estonian project to Italy
May 2006 visit by 15 women beneficiaries of the Italian project to
Spain
September 2006 visit by 19 women beneficiaries of the Spanish project
and technical staff to Italy
May 2007 visit by 18 women and 5 men beneficiaries of the Estonian
project to Spain
In all, around 60 women and 19 men beneficiaries have taken part:
for 8 of them, this was the first business trip that they had made abroad
and
for 5 of them the first journey abroad in their life
It was a wonderful experience of work and
we hope we can continue to work together in the future!
Thank you for your attention!