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In 2020, when the Farmer Field School initiative was launched in Mukhuri with the support of UN Women and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 20 women from the village gathered together to gain new knowledge.
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For almost 35 years now, no child has ever gone to a kindergarten in the village of Gurdzemi in Martvili Municipality, located in Georgia’s western region of Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti. The kindergarten was closed in the 1990s and has not been reopened since.
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Women dairy farmers living in the Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region continue their activities with improved products and new entrepreneurial skills, thanks to a successfully implemented project by UN Women and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) aimed at their empowerment.
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The “Empower Her” project will be implemented within the recently signed Memorandum of Cooperation between ProCredit Bank and UN Women.
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Initiated by UN Women, the free-of-charge training course was designed for the women living along the ABL, and 32 participants from the regions of Shida Kartli and Samegrelo attended it in September and October 2024.
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UN Women, together with funding from the Governments of Denmark and Norway, as well as from local partners, continues to work towards women’s economic empowerment.
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Nazi Bakirova, now 50 years old, has loved sewing since childhood and was quite skilled at it. She furthered her expertise by learning from local seamstresses after finishing school.
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With the Greenhouse Pilot Programme for Women, which was implemented not only in Marneuli but also in Lagodekhi, a total of 37 women received financing to set up their greenhouses. UN Women contributed 80 per cent of the financing.
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The pilot programme started in 2022 in Marneuli and Lagodekhi municipalities within the framework of cooperation between the RDA and the UN Women Georgia Country Office. The current phase of the programme is operational in three other municipalities: Vani, Chokhatauri and Chkhorotsku.
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How rural women change the lives of their families, villages and communities for the better, and the difficulties they have to overcome to do so - these are the topics addressed in “We Women Have Power”, published by UN Women as part of Gender Week.
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Since 2019, UN Women, the Kakheti Regional Development Foundation and the Taso Foundation have been collaborating on social mobilization and economic support initiatives for women in rural areas of Kakheti, Samtskhe-Javakheti and Kvemo Kartli.
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The Rural Development Agency (RDA) has extended its support to women farmers in the municipalities of Chkhorotsku, Vani and Chokhatauri following the successful implementation of the first stand-alone Greenhouse Pilot Programme in Marneuli and Lagodekhi municipalities.
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UN Women, together with its partners, continues to implement initiatives that serve to establish new connections and collaborations and to share experience and knowledge between women entrepreneurs living in rural areas of Georgia and Azerbaijan.
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On 14 and 15 September 2023, with the support of UN Women, CARE Caucasus held a regional conference and study visit for 30 women entrepreneurs living in Armenia and Georgia. The aim of the initiative was to promote cooperation, business relations and experience sharing.
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Branding and effective presentation in the online space, especially in social networks, is an essential component of modern business success. However, women entrepreneurs, who are engaged in relatively small business activities, are often unable to allocate adequate resources for the realization of this important but expensive process.
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Gulnazi is the leader of her local Farmer Field School, an initiative supported by UN Women and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
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With the support of UN Women and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Farmer Field Schools are operating for local dairy women in the Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region.
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The Farmer Field School is part of the joint project between UN Women and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations called “Promoting the Economic Empowerment of Women Farmers by Supporting Dairy Production through Farmer Field School (FFS) Approaches”.
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It was this constant search for innovative approaches that gave rise to the idea of preparing a culinary travel guide that combines new tourist routes with the stories of rural women employed in agritourism and the recipes of dishes they prepare.
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UN Women celebrated International Women’s Day with events for local milkmaids participating in the Farmer Field Schools (FFS) in the Samegrelo region.