Training for Gender Dialogue Platform members and Farmer’s Union was organized by Abantu and Cocoa Life to enhance women’s participation in key decision making spaces at the community level in Bia East District.
At the end of the training ABANTU has successfully established a Gender Dialogue Platform in the Bia East District with the election of a President and two other executives. The Platform has also committed to meeting once every month to discuss gender and related issues.
The Farmer Union executives also committed to supporting other women to contest as executives. The Union also committed to using quotas, a form of Affirmative Action to increase women’s representation in leadership at the Union level.
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