Resolutions & Recommendations Passed at the 2010 Triennial Conference:
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Resolutions

Resolutions

Access to Credit: In view of the United Nations first Millennium Development Goal calling for eradication of extreme poverty and hunger, and to improve employment for women, be it resolved that the ACWW member societies call on their governments to make available access to credit for women.

Plastic Bag Use: All ACWW member societies urge their communities to restrict the use of plastic bags and to reduce excess packaging. Consumers need to be informed and governments need to take action in order to promote a sustainable future.

Financial Management: ACWW member societies encourage their members to:

ensure that women have sufficient knowledge about financial management in their households; educate women to draw up a spending plan or budget to ensure financial security within the household.

Land Retention: ACWW member societies urge their governments to ensure that, with reports of a coming world food shortage and the search for alternatives to fossil fuels, sufficient quantities of arable land are retained for food production and not diverted to growing crops for bio fuel production.

Recommendations

Recommendations

Tree Planting: The Associated Country Women of the World urge all AWW member societies worldwide (where possible) to plant trees as a contribution towards combating climate change. This could be an individual or group project.

Individual Membership: That it is a prerequisite for any candidate seeking office as a member of the Board of ACWW or a Specified Committee to hold individual membership of ACWW.

Apply for Individual Membership

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