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<span style="font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">In celebration of International Women's Day 2021 and Open Data Day 2021,</span><span class="x_Apple-converted-space" style="font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">
Global Open Data in Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) </span><span style="font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">and Unique Mappers Team (one of the key GeoForAll labs in Africa) are teaming up to bring you an event bringing together these two topics and exploring
gender equality in data technologies in West Africa.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Despite women making up around 50% of the agricultural workforce in the ACP region, the gender gap in relation to access to information and communication technologies (ICTs) continues to grow, making it particularly
difficult for women to access important information, financial products and markets.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">The digital transformation of the agricultural sector, through the proliferation of digital technologies, tools and services has only served to exacerbate preexisting inequalities. While challenges such as access
to education, access to financial services, connectivity, availability of electricity and cost of essential services only serve to widen the gender data gap.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) has been strongly supporting capacity development for</span><span class="x_Apple-converted-space" style="font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">women small holder farmers worldwide.</span><span class="x_Apple-converted-space" style="font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">In 2020 , GODAN organised a webinar with speakers from GODAN, LandPortal Foundation and UniqueMappersTeam to share ideas on
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Empowering Women for Open Data Mapping in Agriculture: Implications for Land Rights and the SDGs in Africa.</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">Details at </span><span style="color:#000000"><a href="https://landportal.org/blog-post/2020/05/empowering-women-open-data-mapping-agriculture-implications-land-rights-and-sdgs"><span style="font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">https://landportal.org/blog-post/2020/05/empowering-women-open-data-mapping-agriculture-implications-land-rights-and-sdgs</span></a></span></p>
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<a href="https://www.godan.info/news/godan-webinar-empowering-women-open-data-mapping-agriculture-implications-land-rights"><span style="font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">https://www.godan.info/news/godan-webinar-empowering-women-open-data-mapping-agriculture-implications-land-rights</span></a></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">The work that UniqueMappersTeam are doing for SDG2 and women smallholder farmers land rights is very important for Zero Hunger and SDG aims.</span><span class="x_Apple-converted-space" style="font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">UniqueMappersTeam have contributed to the “GeoForAll contributions to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals” aims </span><a href="https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/geoforall-miniconference-at-world-commons-week-2019/"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:11pt">https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/geoforall-miniconference-at-world-commons-week-2019/</span></a></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Empowerment of women would not only empower individuals, increasing their earnings; but would also serve to empower families and entire farming communities, and partnership is a key factor to effectuating that
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<span style="font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Please register for the webinars on both days (6th March and 8th March) at</span></p>
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<a href="https://www.godan.info/events/women-and-digitalisation-agriculture-overcoming-data-divide"><span style="font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">https://www.godan.info/events/women-and-digitalisation-agriculture-overcoming-data-divide</span></a></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">I am grateful to millions of women small holder farmers from all over the world for their contributions for Zero Hunger Aim.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Best wishes,</span></p>
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