[Ict4ruralwomeninafrica] association of many tools
sylvie siyam
pegmidebana@yahoo.fr
Fri, 13 Feb 2004 19:13:18 +0100 (CET)
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PROTEGE QV has just ended in early december, an initiative that aimed to use open and distance training programme, to empower rural women, rendering them able to implement income generating activities and to practice effective local leadership.
To ensure the relevancy of the training content, the identification of the real needs of the women was made through a field survey by interviewing 500 women. Considering the needs expressed during the survey, three levels of training were implemented:
the first level, an open and free one through a radio programme entitled "Woman and proud", broadcasting 75km around, three times per week at 6.15pm;
the second level, through group discussions supported by videos, to give the opportunity to raise all the misunderstandings,
the third level by training ten trainers who will pursue the initiative locally.
The partners in the initiative were ten women groups, locally based associations.
The lessons learnt in this project are that:
· Working with local women groups as partners influenced considerably, the impact of the messages;
The results obtained from the data processing comfort us in the choice to use radio as the way to train rural women;
• Women were very enthusiast to join the initiative;
• The newly trained trainers are feeling really responsible regarding their new roles;
• The duration of the project (only four months), is not enough to really improve the short term development, but able to enhance new attitudes from rural women.
• One of the best lessons learnt is the power of the radio as someone says “radio is the rural internet in Africa”.
· radio remains the best ICT we can use to spread information in rural areas.
The association of different communication tools can give better results.
Sylvie SIYAM
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