The Vision of the Gender Strategy in the Agricultural Sector 2016-2025 is to: Ensure gender equality in participation, access to opportunities and full exercise of human rights in the agricultural sector, ensuring access to and enjoyment of conditions for increased production and productivity, food and nutrition security of households. Its mission is to: Reduce gender disparities in the agricultural sector by eliminating obstacles and all forms of discrimination against women's control of productive resources and access to the market. The Principles of the Strategy are guided by the former strategy (EGSA 2005-2010), which have been aligned to address the need to promote women's empowerment. along the key components of the agricultural value chain. The priority interventions and action areas are summarized under four thematic areas: 1) peace and national security; 2) livelihoods; 3) human rights; and 4) governance. The implementation process, since it is multi-sectoral as well as complex for the involvement of different and all stakeholders' interests, intricate communication function, mobilizing resources, setting up administrative structures, may need to be phased. The Strategy is based on the recognition and respect for human rights, including the fact that equality between women and men in the agricultural sector should lead to specific actions to improve the status of women at all levels, with observance of the cultural diversity that characterizes the Mozambican society, through the sustainable use and exploitation of natural resources. The general objective is to: Provide the agricultural sector and related sectors with specific lines of integrated action for the promotion of gender equality and women's empowerment, from planning, budgeting, implementation to monitor and evaluate development activities in the agricultural sector. Specific objectives of the Strategy are: 1. To contribute to the integration of gender perspectives throughout the value of the agricultural sector; 2. Establish the necessary policy measures to target promotion of women's empowerment in the agrarian sector; 3. Ensure that policies, strategies, plans, programs, projects and agrarian budgets are gender-sensitive and disparities in opportunities and benefits between men and women; 4. To guide the development of a strong institutional framework for implementation, monitoring, reporting and evaluation of gender value chain in the agricultural sector. The Areas of Action chosen by the Gender Strategy in the Agrarian Sector result of the combination and alignment of the Pillars of the Strategic Development Plan of the Agrarian Sector (PEDSA 2011-2020) and the components of the National Investment of the Agrarian Sector (PNISA 2013-2017). The Areas of Action are: 1. Increase in production and productivity (Ensure increased productivity of livestock, food crops and income, at the level of households, especially those headed by women); 2. Access and control of natural resources (Ensure women's equitable and safe access to productive land within and outside irrigated perimeters and community-based forest and wildlife resources); 3. Access and control of productive resources (Expand access and use of agricultural inputs, animal traction and agrarian mechanization by family producers with greater attention to female headed households. Increase access and adoption of agricultural technologies by women for improving access to markets); 4. Access to markets (Invest in infrastructure to support women agricultural production and marketing in rural areas); 5. Access to Financial Services; 6. Food and Nutrition Security; 7. Institutional Development and Strengthening (Extend access to financing throughout the agribusiness chain, ensuring full participation of women producers).
Мозамбик · 2016-01-01