Gagnants de 2005

Association pour la Culture l'Environnement et la Culture (ACET-ONG)

This project aims to increase the awareness of women’s groups and provide them with training in the use of internet-related ICTs, and to establish an agricultural information system (question-answer system) This direct communication system aims to increase the accessibility of effective, appropriate and personalised responses to the primary concerns of these women’s groups, such as new growing techniques, processing methods, market research, micro-finance partners and organisations with affordable terms.

Association MANEGDBZANGA

Project objective:
To use ICTs to increase access by peasant journalists to agriculture-related information.

ARCHE D’ALLIANCE

Project Objectives:
-To increase awareness and facilitate comprehension by Uvira’s rural women of the gender issue.
-To train and support Uvira’s rural women on using ICTS to contribute effectively towards the gender advocacy campaign.
-To promote the use of ICTs by Uvira’s rural women in the context of agriculture-linked development.

CRI - Crops Research Institute

The purpose of the project is to empower women farmers broaden their economic opportunities and reduce their vulnerability to diseases and hunger through the use of ICTs (internet, radio cum telephone (digital radio), market information centres, audiocassettes and video cassettes) to access information on healthy vegetable production.

The specific objectives of the project are to:
Sensitise and support MOFA and the CRI to use the internet to access and communicate information on healthy vegetable production and marketing.
Understand gender differences in the use of ICT (internet, radio cum telephone (digital radio), market information centres, audiocassettes and video cassettes) to access information on healthy vegetable production
Improve women vegetable farmers access to ICTs (digital radio, market information centres, audiocassettes and video cassettes)
Improve the skills and capacities of women in using ICT (internet, radio cum telephone (digital radio), market information centres, audiocassettes and video cassettes ) to access information on healthy vegetable production and marketing.

KAIPPG (Kenya AIDS Intervention Prevention Project Group) [http://www.kaippg.org]

Overall Project Goal:
To build the capacity of rural communities in information processing, accessing and its dissemination for health improvement, nutritional and agricultural development, poverty alleviation, knowledge acquisition, gender equity, ICTs and general literacy.

Department of Research, Evaluation and Media (REM),and Institute of Extra-Mural Studies (IEMS), National University of Lesotho (NUL)

INDIGO development & change [http://www.indigo-dc.org]

Project activities have included:
1. Initial data gathering: We have compiled existing spatial information in the area from local existing projects and other data sources, and included relevant data in GIS setting up an initial data base with information that includes digitalised topography, vector, and aerial maps, as well as the location of wild Rooibos, homesteads, farm areas, and ecosystems.

2. Training of local young women on GPS use: as a result two apprenctices are now competent to take GPS measurements, download the data points and prepare the data for integration in the GIS of the area. They have been working on their own with the GPS taking coordinate points of Nieuwoudtville town and the location of special plants, as part of the EcoClub activities aiming to the environmental education of local children and conservation of threatened and endangered plants.

3. Semi-structured interviews, transect walks and mental maps: With reference to the farming activities identified during interview with farmers, and with the aim to visualise how landscape and use patterns are spatially distributed land users perceptions, men and women draw detailed mental (sketch) maps identifying important landmarks and land uses. After identification of units areas farmers, facilitator and trainee walked on a transect characterizing those areas and doing GPS ground truth checking. Transect walks can provide perspectives and more accurately describe types of ecosystems and use patterns. A women group from Melkkraal farm worked on their own identifying their mapping priorities, which differed from the male farmers.

Fahamu SA Trust [http://www.fahamu.org]

To use and explore the potential of SMS technology as an information tool to empower rural women in agriculture to make more effective use of the limited resources available to them and to access development initiatives which they might not otherwise be aware of.

Access to ICTs is a key theme in the WSIS Declaration of Principles and Plan of Action adopted in Geneva in 2003. This Declaration aims to ‘ensure that more than half the world’s inhabitants have access to ICTs within their reach’ by 2015. Fahamu has been involved in numerous activities over the years that relate to this theme and end goal. The development of ICT tools are required to enhance the participation and involvement of rural women in agricultural settings. New forms of learning and communication would help women to have free and open access to resources, technological innovations and information. Moreover, it is important to focus on disseminating information to those who have the most difficult time accessing it: the rural populations.

COCONUT PRODUCTIONS [Video Specialists in Educational Media Programing]

Production of a training video aimed at covering 8 main segments to be used as a training methodology at Gender and CEDAW Advocacy Workshops in rural areas raising awareness about ICT:

A] What does ICT stand for and its general definition [covering “understanding gender differences in the use of ICTs"]

B] What are the main types of ICT’s and which ones are available in Tonga

*How the following can be used to access information and what types of information:

C] Telecommunications [land/mobile]

D] Radio / TV / Electronic Broadcast Mediums

E] Electronic Communication Services such as Banking

F] Internet Use

G] How can ICTs improve the lives of women in highly rural and agricultural areas

H] Case Studies of how ICTs can advance Gender Development [Look at its link to the Governments Policy on Gender Development and CEDAW]

University of the West Indies