AFARM being operating at regional level through Women's Regional Training Centre, for the betterment of the Women folk took up initiative to collect issues of their unease & prioritized the steps of Empowerment from the Marathwada region. Objectives of the Forum are to Empowerment of the women headed organizations and Capacity building of their Trustee. The membership of the platform was awarded only to the women headed organizations. The membership was terminated of the member who remained absent for three consequent meetings without prior intimation. The common programs of the network, for each month were chalked out unanimously in the monthly meeting. An incentive fund was allocated for the implementations of the program.
The members of the forum identified certain priority issues, which needed concentration on both skill training & vision building, like- Sexual Harassment, Domestic and Social Violence, Women Health, Gender Equality, Women Education, Management of Voluntary Organizations, Financial independence of the women, Capacity Building of Voluntary workers, Children, Adolescent boys, Adolescent girls, Young girls etc.
212 Organizations participate in the monthly meetings enrolling 244 members. A training program accompanied the meeting on the subject unanimously selected in order to enhance the capacity of the members.
The Forum later on shifted to the programs related to Organic Farming. They started organizing awareness camps for the women farmers in order to propagate the idea of Organic farming. The female farmers demanded the organization of trainings. Presently the members of Forum have taken up the activity of trainings in Organic farming practices.
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