On Thursday 28 and Friday 29 May two events on the role of women in rural development and food security will take place at the Auditorium di Cascina Triulza in Milan. The events are promoted by the Directorate General for Development Cooperation at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation in the context of EXPO Milan 2015.
The conference on 28 May, entitled “Women That Count: experiences and challenges for the new development agenda”, will begin at 14.30. It is dedicated to a programme currently under way in Senegal, illustrated through testimonies by participants. Starting with their own experience, they will indicate the factors they view as priorities in improving rural development.
Participants will include representatives of the institutions, such as the Senegalese Minister for Women, Mariama Sarr; the Director General for Development Cooperation, Giampaolo Cantini; the First Lady of Ethiopia, Roman Tesfaye; and the representative of Women for EXPO, Paola Testori.
The seminar on “Measuring the empowerment of rural women” starts at 10.30 on 29 May. It will illustrate how cooperation agencies intend to verify empowerment following the criteria of the Post-2015 Development Agenda, which envisages specific goals for food security and gender equality from now to 2030. The Agenda, which will be approved by the United Nations General Assembly in September 2015, will commit both cooperation agencies and partner countries in the south of the world to report on the de facto improvement in women’s quality of life.
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