First and foremost, I must salute FSN for coming up with this forum.
I wish to contribute on this topic that a woman is the cornerstone, the foundation, the custodian of social, cultural economic, spiritual and even political development. To achieve the development goals for rural women need favourable government policies that allows and supports their programmes.
Many scholars of women activism and development observe that women are viewed not only as development "ends" but also a means of reaching project goals. Therefore, investing in women women should be regarded as an effective use of scarce development resources. These actions should be guided by the basic principles of seeing women for what they are as economic and social agents, and not mere passive recipients of welfare.
For the development goals to be realized, this will require effective involvement of both women and men. For that case women are a vital force in national development . They support economic growth through agricultural and food production and play a vital role in the education and management of the community, as well as management of the environment.
We are all equal before God and have been gifted with the brains, intellect and wit such as; if women are given the opportunity, would enable them transform societies and make it a better place for all of us. Women have proved that they are lead managers within the households for providing food, nutrition, water, health, education among others.
From that arguement, governments should give support to rural women in terms of service as well as economic support because no nation can develop when a part of it is either marginalized or suffers from discrimination. And there is no greater injustice than that wholesomely inflicted on those that bring forth humanity. He who seeks to endanger, exploit, discriminate and oppress womanhood seeks to endanger all that dwell the earth, and there can be no valuable respect for a nation that does not treasure her mothers.
السيد Henry Kizito