Integrating gender in communication for rural development  © FAO
Dimitra  The FAO-Dimitra Project recently launched a handbook
for all development practitioners, which examines the need to
include gender in communication for rural development
initiatives and provides guidance on achieving this
successfully.  2 May 2011, Rome - The FAO-Dimitra Project, a
participatory information and communication initiative whose
goal is to improve the visibility of rural men and women,
recently launched “Communicating Gender for Rural Development:
Integrating Gender in Communication for Development.” This
handbook is designed for all development practitioners (not only
communication/ information specialists) and was born out of the
observation that all too often, gender is overlooked in the
design of communication initiatives for development in rural
areas and that rural populations, women particularly, are rarely
viewed as primary sources of information. This has an impact on
the action of communication with consequences th