Your just Reward

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Your just Reward

• Goal
• To improve the financial situation of women
  who work on agricultural enterprises.

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Occasion

• Research reports, both national and for the
  European ParliamentWeak position women on the
  farm
• Busy in household and family
• No formal income, no personal capital, no pension

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Achieving the goals by

• Informing the women about financial possibilities
• Improving financial services from banks,
  accountants etc.
• Getting the financial problems of women on
  political agenda
• Mainstreaming

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Occasion (continued)

• - No social security, like assurance
• - Failing marriage contract
• - Conflicting rules from the government and EU
• - Lack of attention financial advisors

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Activities

• Information
• Training volunteers (30 persons)
• Thematical meetings (total 120, 4 subjects)
• Courses per province
• Local meetings (for farmers, totally 20
  meetings)
• Servicepoint

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Activities (continued)

• Brochures
• Website
• Meetings with advisors
• Publications
• Interviews for measuring effect
• International symposium

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Fundraising

• The project Your just reward has been funded
  by
• the European Union
• provincial governements
• a bank
• accounts services

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Good experiences

• The project has been succesful due to the
  following
• reasons
• Research link to two investigations which enjoy
  a clear formulation of the issue
• Involvement the management and the board were
  closely involved in the development of the
  project

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Good experiences (continued)

• 3. Information Exchange working together with a
  bank and national accounting office made
  information sharing possible
• 4. Training the board members of the Women
  Enterprise Commission has been trained, so the
  meetings went according the plan.
• 5. Document of Recommendations the reactions
  from the participants were reigistered in this
  document, which forms the basis for further
  lobbying.

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Good Experiences (continued)

• The name in Dutch the name Your just Reward
  was well chosen it is appealing and is not
  easily forgotten.
• Brochures the 4 brochures respond to a need for
  information.
• 7. Cooperation by cooperating with other
  national business organisations, one is able to
  enhance the basis of support as well as the
  effects.

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Your just Reward Worldwide
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Your just Reward Worldwide

• Although the context varies much, the financial
  position from farmes women in developing
  countries is comparable.
• Women are responsible for 60 80 of food
  production, often they do not enjoy the
  possibility of holding titles to their name nor
  of building up capital.

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Your just Reward Worldwide
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Your just reward Worldwide

• About 10 of all credits aimed at small farmers
  are enjoyed by women.
• Research carried out by the World Bank has shown
  that it is possible to increase the earnings by
  at least 20 if more women control incomes, the
  land and the provision of agricultural services.

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Your just Reward Worldwide
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Your Just Reward Worldwide.

• After the international symposium there was a
  special small meeting with representatives from
  women from farmers organisations from Peru and
  Congo.
• They discussed about the question if it is
  possible the use the experiences by farmers
  organisation in developing countries.
• They decided to make a proposal for sharing
  the good experiences with other farmers
  organisations.

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Your just Reward Worldwide.

• Reaction from one of the participants
• LTO gave us the opportunity to interchange
  experiences of women of different parts from the
  world. Each one with a culture, legal frame and
  different reality, we sensitized ourselves on
  this subject and from this uniform base to be
  able to have an approach on which we love the
  women for the future.
•  

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Your just Reward Worldwide.

• LTO motivates to us to be strong and to be
  able to have knowledge on our rights and
  obligations, this way to be able to work together
  and organized to improve our quality of life,
  offering us the advising to be able to have our
  roles on our earth and power to work them with
  technology and thus to obtain a good
  production..

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Leaflet

• The experiences gained through the Your just
  Rewardproject can be very useful to other
  farmers organisations.
• For that reason the LTO Women and Enterprise
  commission has made a special leaflet.

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Your just Reward Worldwide
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Your just Reward

• Is an initiative from LTO Netherlands Women
  Business Committee.