Within the framework of the REEWP project, CRTD.A organized on July 13 and 14, 2012 a national Knowledge Sharing Seminar which was hosted at the YWCA in Beirut.
The two days seminar was an opportunity to share the results of the REEWP research work over the past two years with more than 130 participants representing Rural Women Cooperatives, sister organizations, public institutions, municipalities, UN organizations as well as individual activists, scholars and media representatives. This included the sharing the experiences, knowledge opportunities and findings of the conducted researches with all those concerned stakeholders including the field research participants. It was intended to build the capacities and knowledge of participants on women’s economic empowerment, and to identify related key issues, in addition to identifying knowledge gaps and future research questions.
So of the future research questions identified include the following:
- How do women use and manage their own income from the Cooperative work? What are the patterns of decision making?
- How do rural women define their own empowerment and the barriers to that empowerment?
- What are the perceptions of men vis-à-vis women’s work in cooperatives? How does this work affect women’s aspirations and expectations?
- How to make the invisible work of women visible?
CRTD.A is currently reviewing the outcome of the discussions during this seminar in order to select and address the new research questions arising.
For further information about this event, please contact: Nathalieh Chemali on nchemaly@crtda.org.lb
