By Christopher Ambe Shu (Pictured:PCC officials & evaluators after meeting)
Food and Rural Development Foundation (FORUDEF), Buea-Cameroon, a local NGO that won the bid to evaluate the first phase of Women Education and Empowerment Project (WEEP) of the Presbyterian Church in Cameroon (PCC) has put the success rate of the project at over 75%.
FORUDEF has noted that WEEP has reduced women’s ignorance about their rights and responsibilities, and improved their level of education on political and leadership issues.
The evaluators said WEEP has also improved Cameroonian women’s access and control over resources as well as over their reproductive health.
FORUDEF made public its evaluation report on February 14 in the PCC conference hall, Buea, at a meeting attended by PCC officials, local administration delegates, journalists and other invitees.
WEEP activities for the first phase(April 2005 to December 2006) included sensitization meetings with women- round -table conferences on Women and Citizens’ rights, training of trainers workshops on gender and women’s rights, seminars on women and their legal rights,worshops on leadership and good governance, and on girl child education. WEEP activities in the first phase were carried in Fako Division of the Southwest Province of Cameroon. There are plans for the project to reach out to other women in far away areas.
“The monitoring system was not adequately followed-up to ensure fuller participation and recognition of shortcomings in planned activities”, noted Tabe Moses, FORUDEF coordinator.
FORUDEF then recommended that WEEP should improve on its planning and monitoring and that the Project Management committee should put more emphasis on its supervisory role by making more field visits in order to maximize achievement of the project goal. They also advised that more young women should be targeted by the project.
For her part, Clara Manga, Buea Sub-delegate for Women and the Family, thanked the PCC for initiating such a vital project to improve on the knowledge of women. She noted that, WEEP has come to complement Cameroon’s commitment to enhance the development of Women.
Denis Kumbo, PCC Project Officer and WEEP Board Chair, who presided at the Evaluation Report Presentation, expressed satisfaction at the evaluation by FORUDEF.He reiterated PCC’s resolve to help improve the lot of women.
WEEP is co-sponsored by Bread for the World and is coordinated by Rev Mary Kinge.
She said WEEP is aimed at educating and empowering women collectively and individually and would stop at nothing.
Food and Rural Development Foundation (FORUDEF), Buea-Cameroon, a local NGO that won the bid to evaluate the first phase of Women Education and Empowerment Project (WEEP) of the Presbyterian Church in Cameroon (PCC) has put the success rate of the project at over 75%.
FORUDEF has noted that WEEP has reduced women’s ignorance about their rights and responsibilities, and improved their level of education on political and leadership issues.
The evaluators said WEEP has also improved Cameroonian women’s access and control over resources as well as over their reproductive health.
FORUDEF made public its evaluation report on February 14 in the PCC conference hall, Buea, at a meeting attended by PCC officials, local administration delegates, journalists and other invitees.
WEEP activities for the first phase(April 2005 to December 2006) included sensitization meetings with women- round -table conferences on Women and Citizens’ rights, training of trainers workshops on gender and women’s rights, seminars on women and their legal rights,worshops on leadership and good governance, and on girl child education. WEEP activities in the first phase were carried in Fako Division of the Southwest Province of Cameroon. There are plans for the project to reach out to other women in far away areas.
“The monitoring system was not adequately followed-up to ensure fuller participation and recognition of shortcomings in planned activities”, noted Tabe Moses, FORUDEF coordinator.
FORUDEF then recommended that WEEP should improve on its planning and monitoring and that the Project Management committee should put more emphasis on its supervisory role by making more field visits in order to maximize achievement of the project goal. They also advised that more young women should be targeted by the project.
For her part, Clara Manga, Buea Sub-delegate for Women and the Family, thanked the PCC for initiating such a vital project to improve on the knowledge of women. She noted that, WEEP has come to complement Cameroon’s commitment to enhance the development of Women.
Denis Kumbo, PCC Project Officer and WEEP Board Chair, who presided at the Evaluation Report Presentation, expressed satisfaction at the evaluation by FORUDEF.He reiterated PCC’s resolve to help improve the lot of women.
WEEP is co-sponsored by Bread for the World and is coordinated by Rev Mary Kinge.
She said WEEP is aimed at educating and empowering women collectively and individually and would stop at nothing.
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