Centrarse en las mujeres rurales en el marco de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS)
“En todo el mundo, y con muy pocas excepciones, las mujeres rurales están en peores condiciones que los hombres rurales y las mujeres y los hombres urbanos, en cada uno de los indicadores de los ODM para los que hay datos disponibles”. (Grupo de Tareas Interagencial sobre la Mujer Rural, Hoja informativa sobre la Mujer Rural, 2012 )
El jueves 6 de febrero, los organismos con sede en Roma (la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO), el Fondo Internacional de Desarrollo Agrícola (FIDA ) y el Programa Mundial de Alimentos (PMA) organizan un evento paralelo centrado en la mujer rural en el marco de los ODS en la octava reunión del Grupo de Trabajo Abierto sobre Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible celebrada en Nueva York.
Esta discusión en línea tiene por objeto estimular un debate más amplio sobre el tema de las mujeres rurales. Si bien este intercambio no está diseñado para aportar información directamente al evento en sí, el enfoque inclusivo del Grupo de Trabajo abierto fomenta el debate sobre temas relacionados con cada sesión.
Las mujeres rurales de todo el mundo juegan un papel clave al apoyar a sus familias y comunidades para lograr la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional, generar ingresos y mejorar los medios de vida rurales y el bienestar general. Contribuyen a la agricultura y las empresas rurales y alimentan las economía local y global. Por ello, desempeñan un papel activo en el logro de los ODM.
Sin embargo, a diario y en todo el mundo, las mujeres y las niñas rurales se enfrentan a limitaciones estructurales permanentes que les impiden disfrutar plenamente de sus derechos humanos y obstaculizan sus esfuerzos para mejorar sus vidas, así como las de otros a su alrededor.
La población rural pobre se enfrenta a múltiples formas de privaciones y discriminación. Las mujeres rurales, en particular, se enfrentan a importantes barreras para acceder a los recursos productivos y a desventajas y exclusión enraizadas en las desigualdades de poder asociadas a los roles de género, lo que les hace estar representadas de forma desproporcional entre los pobres rurales.
Este evento paralelo apoyará la Octava reunión del GDTA sobre “Promover la igualdad, incluida la igualdad social, la igualdad de género y el empoderamiento de las mujeres”. Se estudiará la manera de garantizar que una agenda de desarrollo post-2015 mejore la situación de las mujeres rurales a través de un enfoque basado en los derechos y la implementación de mejores políticas, estrategias e intervenciones específicas, apoyadas por el fortalecimiento de la gobernanza y las instituciones pertinentes. Se discutirá, entre otras cuestiones, sobre las prioridades para mejorar los medios de vida de las mujeres rurales, el acceso a la justicia y los derechos legales, el empoderamiento económico y el acceso a la toma de decisiones a todos los niveles, mostrando por lo tanto cómo la mejora de las condiciones de las mujeres en las zonas rurales puede ayudar a lograr todos los objetivos de desarrollo. Se hará hincapié en los objetivos e indicadores con el apoyo de datos desglosados por género para supervisar mejor el progress en la vida de las mujeres rurales.
El Panel estará integrado por representantes de alto nivel de los tres socios en la organización, una organización de mujeres rurales, y al menos un representante de un gobierno nacional.
Sus ideas y puntos de vista para abordar la cuestión de las mujeres rurales serían una valiosa aportación a la discusión en línea antes del evento paralelo en el Grupo de Trabajo abierto. Estamos deseosos de recibir sus respuestas sobre las siguientes cuestiones:
1. Si pudiera hacer una intervención en el evento paralelo sobre la mujer rural en el 8º Grupo de Trabajo abierto en Nueva York, ¿de qué se trataría ?
2. Las mujeres rurales son a menudo descritas como importantes agentes de cambio en los debates sobre los objetivos de desarrollo sostenible. ¿En qué medida el logro de la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional de las mujeres rurales ayuda a acelerar el desarrollo sostenible?
3. De los muchos datos o estadísticas registradas sobre las mujeres rurales, ¿cuál considera que es el más revelador?.
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Support for rural women in the new post 2015 development agenda should be given by advocating for equal rights to land for women and men. Resources can be found here: http://www.landpost2015.landesa.org
Dear Moderator ,
The following are ares that I would contribute on focusing on rural women in sustainable development goals:
1) Access and control on productive resources especially land.
2) Access to credit, financial services and markets
3) Being part of value-chain actors (Active participation on value-chains)
4) Being part of decision making bodies.
5) Promotion of maternal health education
6) Prevention of gender based violence
7) Training on gender equality and rights.
Dr Charles KAYUMBA
Heifer International Country Director
Rwanda
1. If you could make an intervention at the side event on rural women at the 8th session of the Open Working Group in New York, what would be its key message?
Rural women are often described as critical agents of change in discussions on sustainable development goals. To what extent would the achievement of food and nutrition security for rural women help accelerate sustainable development?
In my opinion a key message that cannot be missed is that, in the light of sustainable development, the concept of food sovereignty is much more gender proactive than the food security notion. As you say, women can be critical agents, but this is enhanced manyfold using a food sovereignty focus. The appeal should thus be for UN agencies sponsoring this 8th session to give-in to this paradigmatic change . Public interest civil society has been making this point to FAO and other agencies for long, but to no avail. The 8th session is yet another chance to make this unpostponable appeal.
Claudio Schuftan, Ho Chi Minh City
I think we need to expand to other countries the successful experiences of existing worldwide economic inclusion. In Brazil , for example , the creation of specific organs and councils with social participation has helped in building policies specific to women, such as credit limits for the production of food from their organizations ( PRONAF - woman). Agricultural marketing women have special treatment in the shares of the Food Acquisition Program . The National Plan of Policies for Women was built with the women's movement and has goals for gender equality and economic empowerment. Progress was made in granting titles to the land on behalf of women and process in the issuance of the Statement of Fitness for Pronaf , essential for access to government subsidies. The Thousand Women Program empowers women to professions seen as masculine , such as construction , drivers , electricians , painters and about U.S. $ 260 million ( $ 130 million ) will be invested in fighting violence against women by 2015.
1. If you could make an intervention at the side event on rural women at the 8th session of the Open Working Group in New York, what would be its key message?
We must guarantee the basic and respect the diversity. For rural women it materializes in good education for their children, a trustful health system in the rural area, letting women more confident about her family health, professional education for the women, aiming to give them tools to improve their income and to be included in the regional market (causing also more self esteem, essential for their human development), and last, a better way for them to communicate. Women are wonderful in communicating their issues and the solutions they have found for it. But usually rural areas have no internet access and bad phone access - so we lose a great potential of knowledge and they lose great chance to know more on how to change their reality.
2. Rural women are often described as critical agents of change in discussions on sustainable development goals. To what extent would the achievement of food and nutrition security for rural women help accelerate sustainable development?
Well, when they are confident about what to eat until the end of the month and about their children health, they can work better, educate their children better and also be wiser to produce on their lands.
3. Of the many facts or stats recorded on rural women, which one do you consider to be the most revealing?
The constant unsafeness they live about their children education and health. The low level of technical education or information they have to make their decision and to make their lives. Usually rural areas seems a more men space, but when getting inside houses and families, women are the balance of the family working. They are so away of special policies for their development, human and educational.
1. If you could make an intervention at the side event on rural women at the 8th session of the Open Working Group in New York, what would be its key message?
As the Copenhagen Consensus (2012) has concluded, the consumption of protein and micro-nutrients is the most cost-effective way to address health and physical development among the working poor in developing countries. This objective can be achieved in a sustainable manner, with new jobs being created for rural women. Malnutrition Matters has implemented numerous projects in rural Asia and sub-Saharan Africa where micro-nutrient-fortified soymilk is made and profitably sold to consumers making ca. $2/day. The stainless steel VitaGoat system, designed by Malnutrition Matters, which pressure-cooks 30L of soymilk per hour at 110C in a fuel-efficient way, with no need for electricity, running water or packaging, can operate in the most basic environment. It can provide a 200ml serving of soymilk with 7g of protein and the RDA for Vitamin A, Iron, Vitamin B12, Vitamin C, Folic Acid and Zinc for less than 7 cents per serving. The VitaGoat can reach 1,000 beneficiaries per day and create 4 to 5 full-time rural jobs per system. There are 250 VitaGoats installed today, with over 100,000 continuous beneficiaries, and some have been operating for 10 years. Local produce is used and there is no 'profit eakage' outside the community. A quadruple benefit is realized: significant improvement in nutrition affordable to rural poor, sustainable job creation for rural women, increased demand and revenue for local produce (soybeans) and much lower impact on the environment than with animal protein. See malnutrition.org for more information. Spreadsheets are avialable to demonstrate the sustainable business model realized at various operational sites.
2. Rural women are often described as critical agents of change in discussions on sustainable development goals. To what extent would the achievement of food and nutrition security for rural women help accelerate sustainable development?
I believe that achieving food and nutrition security for rural women in a sustainable manner, is itself a vital part of sustainable development. Because it would result in much less malnutrition and stunting, the populace would experience much greater 'value in life-years' (VLYs) due to good health and prper physical and neurological development, which would enable the GDP of that region / country to increase substantially. Please see the attached comment on the recent Lancet Commission : 'Global Health 2035' for further thoughts on the role of nutrition in achieving greater health and contributing to sustainable development.
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