SHE IS THE CHANGE
Despite women’s critical roles in communities such as Msoro, Nsefu and Mnkhanya chiefdoms in many rural areas of Zambia ; women are involved in many activities both at household and communities from food production and water management, management of domestic chores, and often women are consistently under represented and face barriers to participating in natural resource management and climate adaptation decision-making from local to global levels-; this has continued to under voice the women in forestry governance and participation in direct social economics activities. Discriminatory gender norms can lead to unequal gender representation in positions of power and decision-making spaces. This imbalance can lead to a vicious cycle that continues to deprive women of access to formal information, financial resources, benefit sharing, access to market linkages, under representation in value chain activities among others.
However, through support from ActionAid Zambia SIDA grants the Forum In partnership with the ZCRBA through building up activities for empowering women and youths in forestry governance has continued to engaged women and youth’s trainings and capacity enhancement platforms.
The Trainer of Trainers workshop supports and pivots women/youths and gender champions navigate the dynamics of power imbalances that aims to transform inequitable power dynamics: empowering women to have the knowledge, tools, and training they need to claim their rights to participate in and lead in natural resource governance, and engaging men as advocates for women’s equality in environmental and other sectors.
We advocate for SHE IS THE CHANGE in our training and embrace conservation efforts collectively.
The TOT training builds on confidence and courage for the trainers to continue to share knowledge, hold community sensitization meetings, engage key stakeholders and represent their various community-based groups.