In Afghanistan, a group of signatories is working with a local telephone and ...

In Afghanistan, a group of signatories is working with a local telephone and Internet provider to start a programme connecting poor rural women and men with more modern youth in the main towns via an SMS platform, using SMS-based blogging. The objective is to keep the rural poor better informed on national women's issues and to foster dialogue between rural poor and urban youth. In Libya, we support a capacity- building programme to enable women to make a meaningful contribution to the development of the new constitution.