The Side Event was organised during the Fifth Meeting of the Africa Committee on Sustainable Development (ACSD-5)/Regional Implementation Meeting (RIM) for CSD-16 in Addis Ababa, 22-25 October 2007. The theme of the meeting, organized by the UN Economic Commission for Africa, was- ‘Tansforming African Agriculture and Rural Economy for Sustainable Development''.
The organisers include the three organising partners of the Women Major Group of CSD-16 & 17, Women Organizing for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (WOCAN),
African Women Leaders in Agriculture and the Environment (AWLAE), and the GRATIS Foundation (Ghana).
The organising partners would like to acknowledge the support received from Heifer International and from the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development Secretariat (CSD) for the organisation of the event, participation of Women Major Group organisers and participants to the Africa RIM.
