Training program on Women, Food and Climate Change, 18th to 23rd April 2011, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh

Organizers:

• Women's Earth Alliance
• Gorakhpur Environmental Action Group

Venue: Gorakhpur Environmental Action Group (GEAG) training center, Gorakhpur

Topics:

• Create a safe space for rural women to share their experiences with climate change, as well as indigenous solutions to tackle such environmental crises
• Build a cadre of informed and empowered rural women leaders who will spread the knowledge with other women to transform their livelihoods and environment
• Diversify and improve the food and economic security of rural women
• Educate women on climate change and its impact on farming livelihoods and women’s health by demonstrating climate change mitigation and coping practices
• Demonstrate climate change mitigation and coping practices
• Provide hands on training on ecological farming and NRM practices
• Create a powerful alliance to strategically collaborate on policy campaigns and other like‐minded initiatives
• Document and promote women’s traditional knowledge systems, including seed saving and other ecological farming and NRM practices

Description:

The training will encompass climate change mitigation and adaptation practices from a gender lens (principles and hands on training), as well as policy and advocacy campaigns that promote the rights of women farmers and demand gender sensitive climate change/other pertinent policies and programs. There will also be emphasis on women’s traditional knowledge systems that promote seed sovereignty and ecological farming and natural resource management practices. 

There is no cost of participation. We are inviting a team of 2 women from each NGO (one grassroots rural woman leader, also a farmer and a trainer, and the other NGO representative who empowers and supports rural women’s groups) to apply for this innovative training program. Women will be accepted only in teams of two, from the states of Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Uttarakhand and Bihar.

Last date to submit the application: 15th March 2011

Download the below attachment for more details and application form

Contact Details:
Dr. Seema Tripathi,
Gorakhpur Environmental Action Group
224 Puridilpur,
MG College Road,
Gorakhpur 273001
Ph: 0551 - 2230004
Email: womenandclimatechange@gmail.com
Website: http://geagindia.org