United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)

Women Farmers - 1 (in collaboration with BLCC, Lahore)

Proposed Duration: 30^th April, 2001 – 30^th August, 2001

Objectives:

• To improve the professional productivity of women farmers through exposure and capacity building;

• To empower women farmers to improve their status in their families and communities;

• To raise awareness amongst the women farmers directly and indirectly so that healthy implications may be reflected in the families and communities;

Activities:

• Provision of farming tools and equipment to rural women for improvement in their on-farm productivity;

• Development and distribution of 20 illustrated booklets amongst farmer women so as to give them exposure to modern technology and means to improve their work.