Snapshot of Leadership Workshops in 2005

Here are some examples of leadership training workshops that took place in 2005. These stories offer a sampling of the different themes present in WLP's leadership workshops.

Leadership Workshop in Mbouda, Cameroon, December 12-14, 2005
Thirty-two women and two men, predominantly engaged in small-scale subsistence farming, attended the workshop. They identified strategies for tackling the challenges they face in agricultural production, and decided to raise awareness in their communities about the rights of peasant farmers.

Leadership Workshop in Kaédi, Mauritania, November 9-11, 2005
Thirty leaders of women's rights organizations from each department of Kaédi, the capital of the remote Gorgol region, attended the workshop. Participants identified the need for stronger bonds of solidarity between women's organizations operating in the same region, and committed to forming a network, to be coordinated by WLP's Mauritanian partner.

Leadership Workshop in Mardin, Turkey, November-December, 2005
Fifteen women attended the workshop, which focused on building appreciation of diversity between participants who lived in a region where many different ethnic groups live side-by-side. A group of participants decided to begin an outreach effort on behalf of WLP's Turkish partner to determine the needs of immigrant women and children in their communities.

 
Leadership Workshop in Beit Fajar, Palestine, October-December, 2005
Twenty women attended the workshop, the majority of whom were married with children. They discussed the challenges of communicating with their families and balancing family responsibilities with work or voluntarism outside the home. After the workshop, one participant resolved tensions with her sons about her volunteer work at the Women's Center by taking them to the Center and demonstrating the importance of her work there. Another widowed participant gained the confidence to speak to her parents to let them know she was not ready to remarry.

Leadership Workshop in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August-September, 2005
A diverse group of nineteen women aged from 20-64 participated in the workshop to test the new Portuguese edition of Leading to Choices. Based on their feedback, final adaptations were made to the manual, which was published in 2006.