Woman carrying thatch - Kajo-Keji Southern Sudan (2008)
Between 27th February and 9th March the UN Commission on the Status of Women will be holding their 56th annual meeting. This years theme is ‘them empowerment of rural women and their role in poverty and hunger alleviation, development and current challenges’.
Non-government organisations (NGOs) like Mothers’ Union, Five Talent’s (partners in the Literacy and Financial Education Programme LFEP) and other Anglican’ organisations will be attending to lobby governments on key issues, and share best practice through a series of workshops.
Two representatives from Mothers’ Union are attending, one of whom is a trainer on the LFEP programme in Southern Sudan. As far as we are aware, the programme is not yet active in our own Diocesan link with Kajo-Keji in Southern Sudan, but with more financial support and training opportunities we hope this might be the case in the lifetime of Mothers’ Union’s current Comic Relief grant towards this work (which runs out in 2015).
Mothers’ Union will be lobbying governments on three key issues:
- the need to improve and expand local services in rural areas;
- the need to invest in local and national infrastructures to underpin services;
- the need to tackle global inequalities particularly in international trade and agricultural food processing.
More information about these can be found in our Mothers’ Union Faith and Policy Watch for February.
We might not be able to join our representatives in New York, but we can pray for them, for the work of the Literacy and Financial Development Programme, and for international governments to tind the will to make decisions that will really move towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals.
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