Mano
River Union: Role of Rural Women in Building Sustainable and Resilient
Rural Communities
in the margins of the IMF-World
Bank Group Spring Meetings
April 22, 2018 – 10:00am – 12:00pm
World Bank Group – 701 18th
Street, N.W
Room # J 8-044
Mano River
Union (MRU) covers Cote d’Ivoire, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone
The conference will build upon the
outcomes of the MRU session held in October 2016 led by African Diaspora,
and focus on the role of rural women in developing sustainable and
resilient rural communities.
Women in rural areas continue to
make significant contributions to the social and economic circumstances in
our society. They help to maintain a sustainable and productive agriculture
sector as the essential economic, environmental and social basis of rural
areas which contributes to rural development, sustainable food production,
and to a potential creation of jobs for rural women.
Both the SDGs Agenda 2030 and the
African Union Agenda 2063 envision "a high standard of living, quality
of life and well-being for all citizens in all spheres of life which
involve “incomes, jobs and decent work, poverty, inequality and hunger,
social security and protection including persons with disabilities, modern,
affordable and liveable habitats, and quality basic services, biodiversity,
conservation, and sustainable natural resource management, water security,
health and nutrition, climate resilience and natural disasters
preparedness, education.”
The conference aims to highlight
the role of rural women in building sustainable and resilient rural
communities, in the perspective of meeting the African Union Agenda 2063
and SDGs Agenda 2030; and to discuss potential solutions to the
challenges. Speakers from:
·
Cote d’Ivoire
·
Guinea
·
Liberia
·
Sierra Leone
·
USA – African Diaspora
· USA
– Non African Diaspora
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