Université de Sherbrooke

Purpose

The Université de Sherbrooke project is based on the conviction that improving women's networking, coupled with a mastery of smart agricultural production techniques adapted to the climate in the emerging sector of seed value chains, offers a competitive opportunity to strengthen the power of rural women (RW), reduce their poverty, and promote gender equality. The ultimate desired result is the increased improvement in the socio-economic well-being of vulnerable women and girls in rural communes of the Koutiala region in Mali. The direct beneficiaries are 25,000 RW of legal age to work in Mali. The Ministry for the Promotion of Women, Children and the Family in Mali, the Ministry of Agriculture, and the authorities in the 18 municipalities (authorities plus about thirty cooperative and associative groups) will benefit from the project. .