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Building The First National Network Of Rural Myanmar Women Farmers One Phone At A Time

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This article highlights the human-centered design process used by UNDP Myanmar

  • to develop a mobile phone application co-designed and co-developed by the rural women themselves which aims to solve the problem whereby rural Myanmar women do not have enough access to knowledge resources, contacts, networks and mentors that fosters their economic empowerment and social standing in the community.
  • to register the first ever nation-wide national rural women’s organization in Myanmar, May Doe Kabar National Network of Rural Women as an association of 31 rural women led CSO, with a core membership of twenty-two thousand rural women and benefitting a total of hundred thousand rural people.

Author: Eleonora Gatti, Former iWomen Inspiring Women App Project Lead, UNDP Myanmar