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One of IFADs priorities is to encourage womens economic development. Both projects include significant animation and economic development components for womens associations. Numerous breeding activities (goats, poultry, bees, rabbits, etc.) have been launched for the benefit of women. What is striking when visiting them is to see how motivated they are. For example, in the reading and writing groups, it is impressive to see the importance they attach to developing their capacity for expression and to securing an independent source of income in a traditional society. In the Al Haouz project, over 5,000 women will benefit from the literacy programme. Other project elements, especially water conveyance, will benefit first and foremost the women. Even the simple fact of supplying water to a village without having one connection per house is already a considerable improvement bearing in mind what the water-fetching chore represents in these foothills.
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