NaijaAgroNet:
A global movement known as ActionAid International is mobilising West Africans from six countries in
the region for the Kilimanjaro Initiative Caravan expected to attract some 30,000
women and youth to stand up for Women’s Land Rights, reports
NaijaAgroNet.
Disclosing this at a just concluded media training workshop
organized by the Africa Media Initiative (AMI) and World Bank in Abidjan, Cote
d’Ivoire, the Africa Advocacy Officer, ActionAid International, Mr. Buba Khan,
is working on mobilizing an estimated 30,000 women and land activists to
participate in the international programme on land rights for women.
He said that ActionAid, a global movement of people working
together to further human rights for all and defeat poverty is partnering other
stakeholders, like Oxfam to deliver on this.
Also, he said that the nine-month project will see to a
global Key Change Promise (KCP) towards boosting women access and control to
land and natural resources.
As said by him, people expected to benefit from this
initiative include some 300,000 women, youths, activists, artists, ActionAid,
media and other partners, while women and youth in six countries are being
targeted for wider community impact in specifically six West African countries.
Khan equally said the multi-country Kilimanjaro Initiative
involves Senegal, The Gambia, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ghana and Nigeria.
This, he explained is the part of the decentralized actions
and events expected to take place in about 16 countries across the continent of
Africa, namely Mozambique, South Africa, Congo DRC, Tanzania, Morocco, Tunisia,
Kenya, Seychelles, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Togo, Senegal, Nigeria, Namibia and
Cameroon.
He used the opportunity to drum media support and
participation for the initiative through adequate publicity, which will
encourage African women to stand-up for their rights on various issues of
social emancipation including land for the rural women farmers.
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