Iran Adopts New Approaches to Enhance the Rural Women’s Role
Iran
Adopts New Approaches to Enhance the Rural Women’s Role
On
the occasion of the “International Rural Women Day “(October, the 15th),
the Central Organization Rural Cooperatives of Iran (CORC) published a summary
report on the taken measures for boosting the role of the rural women in the
domestic economy.
On
the occasion of the “International Rural Women Day “(October, the 15th),
the Central Organization Rural Cooperatives of Iran (CORC) published a summary
report on the taken measures for boosting the role of the rural women in the
domestic economy.
Iran
Adopts New Approaches to Enhance the Rural Women’s Role
On the occasion of the "International Rural Women Day" (October, the
15th), the Central Organization Rural Cooperatives of Iran (CORC) published a
summary report on the taken measures for boosting the role of the rural women
in the domestic economy.
Confirming the significance of the rural women in the economic, social and
cultural sustainability, this report reviews the rural women cooperatives as
the enterprises to achieve the sustainable development goals(SDGs). These
cooperatives have been aimed to organize rural women in a participatory
approach organization to produce, process and marketing crops. These kinds of
economic endeavors will not only improve the life standards of the rural
household but also decrease gender -based biases.
According to the vision and mission of CORC, envisaged in the Bylaw, there have
been developed a variety of different projects to support the rural women in the
different fields including:
1. Capital raising to proceed the current projects, detecting and representing
the investment potentials of the rural women cooperatives
2. Improved marketing through product quality management, branding and holding
trade fairs
3. Facilitating the abroad marketing for the products of the rural women
cooperatives through cooperation with the involving organizations to attend the
international trade fairs;
4. Boosting the entrepreneurship based on the society needs by supporting the
Small micro-enterprises (SMEs) and entrepreneur women;
5. Enhancing the members’ participation for production leap through organizing
a national union, engaging the rural women in the different working fields by
providing professional and skill training courses.
