The Kilimanjaro Initiative is
gathering momentum as its council with five-regional representatives acting in
the capacity of Rural Women
Steering Group step-up activities for the actualization of its objectives,
reports NaijaAgroNet.
The council, NaijaAgroNet comprising five regional women representatives
from Northern Africa, Eastern Africa, Central Africa, West Africa and Southern
Africa.
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international agency
steering group, is currently being convened by ActionAid and made up of Oxfam, ILC, WILDAF, Tanzania Gender Networking programme,
Kenya Land Alliance among others, to see to the success of the programme.
NaijaAgroNet gathered that members of the council include Moroccoan Ghita
Ait Ben Lmadani, who is representing North, Flora Mathias Mlowezi of Tanzania
representing Eastern Africa; Cameroonian Augustina Takah and Vanessa Adoko standing
in for the Central Africa, whereas Nigerian Lovelyn Ejim Nnenna is representing
West Africa in the council.
Kilimanjaro Initiative, conceived by rural women in
2012 with support from civil society organisations at a meeting held in Dar e
salaam, Tanzania, creates space for rural women to participate in decision
making about the issues dear to them.
Also, the initiative seeks to mobilise rural women
from across Africa towards an iconic moment at the foot of Mt Kilimanjaro in
October 2016, with access to and control over land and natural resource as an
entry point.
The mobilisation is expected to culminate in a mass
African rural women’s assembly and a symbolic ascent of the mountain by a
delegation of women to proclaim a charter of principles and demands on women’s
access to and control over their land. Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa,
is a powerful symbol of a challenge to climb and of a starting point to
spreading a message across Africa.
NaijaAgroNet further gathered that the objectives
include strengthening the movement
of rural women in claiming and defending their defending land and natural
resource rights in Africa; engender political will amongst national
governments, donor and regional institutions to implement an all-inclusive
African women’s charter.
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