POLICY INITIATIVE

Gender Resource Centre

A Gender Resource Centre has been initiated in the Directorate of Extension under the Department of Agriculture & Cooperation to ensure that policies and programmes in Agriculture reflect national commitment to empowerment of women. Appropriate structural, functional and institutional measures are proposed to be initiated to empower women and build their capacities in order to improve their access to inputs such as land, credit and agricultural technologies. The GRC would not only undertake and support training, research and advocacy on gender concerns in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management but would also forge effective functional linkages with other related department, agencies and institutions.

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