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What is?
The Caribbean Network of Rural Women Producers (CANROP), is a non-profit umbrella organisation that embraces national chapters of rural women's associations in the Caribbean. It was Launched in 1999.
Why?
To create a single entity of already existing associations of rural women producers
to equip women with technical, administrative and entrepenerial skills as a means to improving their socio-economic status and create employment in the rural ares in which they live.
Mission
To empower rural women to improve their standard of living. This is done through training, cultural exchanges, networking and promoting inter- and in intra-regional trade. It facilitates access to specialized credit, seeks to create sustainable employment opportunities and undertakes advocacy to sensitize society.
Affiliates
Barbados, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
The Network is a member of the Alliance for Sustainable Development of Agriculture and the Rural Milieu (The Alliance) and is supported by the Offices of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) in the Caribbean.
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