Session: The presentation will focus on women processing groups that have been capacitated by WODSTA to add value to different agricultural products such as fruits, vegetables, and honey, and to enable women to access reliable markets for processed, preserved fruits and vegetables to augment their sources of income and improve their livelihoods.
Speaker: Lyne Ukio is a gender specialist and founding member of Women Development for Science and Technology (WODSTA), an NGO which promotes appropriate technologies among women groups. As Secretary-General of WODSTA, she has more than fifty years of experience as an educationalist, gender, and development specialist focusing on marginalized grassroots communities. She focuses on social-economic empowerment for women and girls and facilitates the implementation of land rights, sustainable agriculture, and renewable energy programs.