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[sylvie siyam]

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I will give my experience as answer to two of the questions.

*How can these information centres be used to facilitate
rural women’s development?

Many barriers can push away rural women from information centres but the most important are illetracy and lack of self confidence.
The materials available are not in local languages. Even women who have finished primary school don't imagine that they can use the materials. They look at information centres as men space.

*What strategies and processes have worked in the different contexts
where you work/live, in making existing public access infrastructure
more accessible for women and inclusive of their concerns?

In a project we run in the Upper Nkam division in Cameroon, we trained ten women from the community to be able to prepare radio programme in french and in local language. They were trained on communication methods and tools. And on how to apply the training on three main subjects: local leadership, family health, income generating activities. They recorded some radio programmes and their mates hearing their voices through radio realized that it was possible for them, rural women , to use radio.
The women trained felt first of all more valorized and now as trainers, they feel deeply responsible to transmit messages to their community.
 
In conclusion, I think that women from the community should be part of the information centres staff or workers, so that it appears to the other women that the centre is not only for men or for litterate.
 
Sylvie SIYAM
 
		
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<DIV>I will give my experience as answer to two of the questions.</DIV>
<DIV><BR>*How can these information centres be used to facilitate<BR>rural women’s development?<BR></DIV>
<DIV>Many barriers can push away rural women from information centres but the most important are illetracy and lack of self confidence.</DIV>
<DIV>The materials available are not in local languages. Even women who have finished primary school don't imagine that they can use the materials. They look at information centres as men space.</DIV>
<DIV><BR>*What strategies and processes have worked in the different contexts<BR>where you work/live, in making existing public access infrastructure<BR>more accessible for women and inclusive of their concerns?</DIV>
<DIV><BR>In a project we run in the Upper Nkam division in Cameroon, we trained ten women from the community to be able to prepare radio programme in french and in local language. They were trained on communication methods and tools. And on how to apply the training on three main subjects: local leadership, family health, income generating activities. They recorded some radio programmes and their mates&nbsp;hearing their voices through radio realized that it was possible for them, rural women , to use radio.</DIV>
<DIV>The women trained felt first of all more valorized and now as trainers, they feel deeply responsible to transmit messages to their community.</DIV>
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<DIV>In conclusion, I think that women from the community should be part of the information centres staff or workers, so that it appears to the other women that the centre is not only for men or for litterate.</DIV>
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<DIV>Sylvie SIYAM</DIV>
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