WOCAN

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Sefora has a PhD in Political Science with majors in Rural Development and Public Administration from the University of Western Ontario and studied Gender and Development at Carleton University in Canada. She further studied gender analysis and gender mainstreaming while working for Canadian International Development Agency. She provided gender mainstreaming training to many CIDA projects and to CIDA staff. Sefora has worked in the agriculture sector for over 10 years and is now a management consultant.

Phanlany is a gender and development consultant/trainer. She has a Master’s degree in Gender and Development studies from the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand. She has extensive experience in gender advocacy, and in gender programming, particularly in integrating gender concerns into planning, monitoring and evaluation in the agriculture and forestry sector.

WOCAN is an expert and passionate organization in providing a voice for women in all spheres of life. WOCAN ensures that women's voices are heard and contributing in the development of their communities. In August 2009, WOCAN organized women involved in cassava processing in three communities in Ghana in a research being undertaken by the Meridian Institute of USA, in a project to add value to cassava funded by the Bill and Berlinda Gates Foundation. WOCAN mobilized to provide a platform for the women to speak their minds and to ask the scientist questions that affected them.

Colletah Chitsike is a trainer and capacity building specialist with her Masters Degree in Adult Education from the University of Zimbabwe. She has extensive experience in Community Development, Organizational Development and Gender Training for Change. She has previously worked with the Zimbabwe Council of Churches, OXFAM GB and NOVIB in Southern Africa and CIAT (Center for International Tropical Agriculture) as the Capacity Building and Learning Management Specialist in Africa.

Mahmuda has a Master’s degree in Economics from Dhaka University, Bangladesh and a Master’s degree in Gender and Development from the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Sussex University, UK. She is working for USAID/ Bangladesh as a Gender Advisor. Mahmuda has extensive experience in gender mainstreaming, training and integrating gender concerns in project cycle in USAID supported projects.

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