FAO-Dimitra Clubs: Community Mobilization

A look at how members of FAO-Dimitra Clubs in the Niger and the Democratic Republic of the Congo have succeeded in improving their livelihoods and creating momentum at community level. This video, which is part of a series entitled "Impact of FAO-Dimitra Clubs: Empowering Rural People," also explores collaborations between the Clubs and other development actors, such as rural institutions.

As a series, the four videos illustrate the impact of Dimitra Clubs, a successful gender-transformative approach developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

FAO-Dimitra Clubs are groups of rural women and men who decide to meet regularly to discuss the challenges they face in their daily lives, make decisions together and take collective action to solve community problems with their own means. Since 2006, 1500 FAO-Dimitra Clubs have been set up in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, the Niger and Senegal.

The series was produced by Esprit Libre Production and FAO-Dimitra.

16/05/2016