ADDIS ABABA- Ministry of Women, Child and Youth announced that over 1.2 million rural women obtained land certificate in the past nine months.
Adinew Abera, Ministry’s Communication Director said that the Ministry has been waging efforts to ensure women’s right and enhance their economic contribution via using Agricultural Extension Service Program and capacity building.
He underscored that for decades Ethiopian rural women were denied from partaking in the major growth-enhancing activities, making major decisions regarding resource use and having land property rights though they perform a large share of the agricultural work.
To reverse this, the Ministry has been expanding free legal service providing organs which help women to hold the land secured from families or in other means.
As a result, in the past nine months, over 1.2 million women have secured land certificates.
Concurrent to this, the Ministry has been undertaking multi-lateral works to empower rural women economically through increasing agricultural productivity.
Consequently, over 640 thousand women organized under farmers’ unions have benefited from trainings offered in animal rearing and agricultural packages and launching alternative income generating activities. In turn, 49 thousand women have benefited from the methods.
Furthermore, with activities undertaken to organize, women in various streams such as self-help associations, cooperative unions, and trading activities, 1.7 million women have benefited.
As to him, that though various conducive environment were created to improve the lives of rural women and empower them economically, as many more women are living in poverty, more works are ahead to tackle women’s economic challenges.
The Ethiopian Herald May 27, 2020
BY TAMERU REGASA
