Watch: Nyusi meets with members of Mozambican Forum of Rural Women on their way to Tanzania

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Watch: Nyusi meets with members of Mozambican Forum of Rural Women on their way to Tanzania

7:56 CAT | 14 Oct 2016

Noticias / Fommur representative greets president Nyusi

Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on Thursday urged the country’s rural women to participate actively in economic and financial activities.

Speaking in Maputo at a meeting with the Mozambican Forum of Rural Women (FOMMUR), Nyusi expressed concern that women, and particularly rural women, were not playing a more dominant role in economic matters.

“It is with some concern that I note the weak involvement of women in our economy”, he said, arguing that greater inclusion of women in the economy would lead to rapid development of the financial sector.

The main purpose of this meeting was to bid farewell to 25 rural women who were about to depart for the Tanzanian town of Moshi, where they will take part in commemorations of International Day of Rural Women, which is celebrated on 15 October. They will join another 15 women from central and northern Mozambique who are already in Tanzania.

FOMMUR representative Rabeca Mabuie complained to Nyusi about the government’s lack of support for peasant women, and the slowness experienced by women when they attempt to seek titles (DUATs) for the land they work. Nyusi assured her that the constraints in allocating DUATs are being overcome.

Mabuie also pointed to illiteracy among rural women as a major factor in the distance between them and the country’s financial institutions, and said that any changes brought to rural women by decentralisation and the creation of municipalities were “imperceptible”.

“We don’t have access to finance because we don’t have knowledge”, she said. “When we go to the district administration to obtain guidance, they say it’s a municipal matter, and tell us to go the municipality for more information”.

Set up in 2008, FOMMUR is a space for debate, sharing of experiences and advocacy for rural women, particularly for such matters as access to and control over land, and access to information, credit and technologies.