1. Capacity building of young rural women
Mamatha
SEdiqa
Salwa

2. PRESENT SCENARIO

3. PROBLEMS OF YOUNG rural WOMEN
CHILD MARAGE
EDUCATION
POVEARTY
EARLY PREGNENCIES
VIOLENCE
LACK OF SKILLS

4. Existing Successful Models
Pakistan Boy Scouts
Magnolia Parents on Sexuality
"Troc" – "Say it" – News Show in Albania
India – Girl Child Clubs
Rights & Life Cycle – Tanzania

5. India – girl child clubs – UNICEF Tharuni initiative
Adolescent girls were mobilised to form in to Girl child clubs – Balika Sanghas
They were trained on various issues like SRH, Life Skills, Community development, etc
They have been turned into excellent change Agents and could stop Child marriages, mainstream child labour and do lot of community development activities
Supported by agencies like UNICEF, Hexagon, Terre Des Hommes
Could successfully stop child marriages and child labour

6. Pakistan Boy Scouts a Brothers join Meena
Boy Scouts were used to bring girls to school
They could motivate local boys schools to admit girls
In one school 80 girls were joined in one attempt
Total 2500 girls joined in one year
Project by UNICEF in Baluchistan province in the year 2000.

7. Magnolia parents talking on sexuality
In Mangolia parents were trained to talk on Sexuality with their daughters
Initially it was embarrassing for girls, but slowly they started asking questions
UNESCO – UNFPA program on SRH

8. Troc – say it – a news show in Albania
Albanian a National TV Adolescents started a program called Say it – Telling it as it is
This show could bring out what are simple problems the adolescents are facing and help local authorities solving those problems
It was a very successful initiative covering viewers each week
Program is Young People's Media Network by Unicef

9. Troc program images

10. Rights and lifer cycle – Tanzania
Relating duty bearers according to the age of the child called Life –Cycle stage helped in protecting the child rights
Different stakeholders like parents, community members, teachers and Govt officials held responsible to protect the rights of the child according to the age group.
Adolescents who were already mothers were taken care by community members
UNICEF Tanzania initiative

11. SHARING OF EXPERINCES

13. Needs of young rural women
a) Improving their capabilities to produce food and to conserve productive resources in the rural environment,
b) Improving their skills and abilities in carrying out income generating activities in rural areas
c) Relieving population pressure and improving nutrition and the well being of farming families

14. Needs of rural young girls
d) A dramatic decline in most countries in the formal sector job opportunities
e) Increasing urbanization and Increasing concentration of resources on urban youth at the expense of rural youth.
f) Developing leadership and the ability to work well with others in group and community situations.