GLOBILSATION AND ERADICATION OF POVERTY

PROGRAM DIRECTOR MS V. Titi

Issues and challenges

• Poor facilitation of rural women programs

• Commercialization

• Lack of services

• Global warming

• Competition for land –Biofuel Vs Crop production

• Registration of enterprises

Challenges continues

• Globalization is a form of exploitation of the masses

• Lack of education• Communicating globalization to rural women • Lack of markets• Delays in government programs roll-out• How to secure patency• Lack of succession-transfer of knowledge from

one generation to the other

issues and challenges

Contributing structural factors-• Macro-economic policy environment and current

inequalities and underdevelopment of rural areas in LDC

• Socio-economic system and marginalization of the poor• Ferminazation to and enforcement of regional and

international initiatives• Emerging economic reforms for global competitiveness

in Africa have inherited more from colonial models and institutions than building on African values and systems

• Accommodate foreign capital interest

Challenges Continues

i. Institutions unfavorable to the poor

ii. Secure distributional advantage for the powerful (rich getting richer)

• How product patent and protection are handled in African indigenous communities

Challenges continues

• How product patent and protection are handled in African indigenous communities

• Technology and product innovation and development in a rural environment

• How product patent and protection are handled in African indigenous communities

• What is it as African can we present that can be labeled marketable opportunities.

Challenges continues

• What are governments doing to combat continuing poverty

• No product to compete with external markets-Countries need to have an entry point

• Lack of knowledge leads to exploitation

Suggested interventions

• Need to understand what our needs are• Policy makers need to act on the

enthusiasm of rural women through frequent interventions;

• Use local rural structures to implement programs

• Establish center of knowledge and information in rural areas

• Government can have a database of all civil society organization

Suggested interventions

• Developed countries need to transfer technology

• We need to find out what we can do with what we have

• Protection against exploitation by traders• We need to set targets for eradicating

poverty• The need to exchange technological know

how

Suggested interventions

• Ensure women are not only introduced to new technologies but entrusted with their use

• Value chain mainstreaming rural poor through indigenous innovation and development in the global economy;

Suggested interventions

Cultural Industries Case Study• Value chain mainstreaming rural poor through

indigenous innovation and development in the global economy

• Technology and product innovation and development in a rural environment

• Value of collective action, business linkages and partnerships in Market Economy

• New Market creation• Funding

Collective approach to programs

• Need to have solidarity approach to issues

• Need to communicate the resolutions of the Congress back to countries

• Need to have exchange programs to learn from each other

Challenges continues