Report of the Expert Consultation on Rural Women and Distance Learning: Regional Strategies
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Rural women in Asia make significant contributions to the agricultural sector, but their access to information and communication technology and current techniques of production still needs to be improved. The Asian region has yet to fully utilize the immense potential of distance learning for agriculture and rural development, particularly among rural women. The above expert consultation, held in Beijing, China from 23 to 26 October 2001, focused on identifying modalities of distance learn ing and open university programmes that could be used for improving the status of rural women. Specifically, the aim was to define a regional strategy that would incorporate partnership linkages among Asian distance learning programmes and institutions to improve rural women’s learning, and promote distance learning approaches to improve technology transfer to strengthen rural women’s competence in farm and household production. The report gives a summary of the presentations and highlights of t he discussions and recommendations.