FAO and Egypt’s Minister of Foreign Affairs sign agreement to support women and young people
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©FAO - QU Dongyu, FAO Director-General and Sameh Shoukry, Egypt’s Minister for Foreign Affairs signed an agreement aimed at strengthening their joint collaboration to support the country's rural women and youth.
15 December, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt - FAO Director-General, QU Dongyu, and Egypt's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Sameh Shoukry, today signed an agreement aimed at strengthening their joint collaboration to support the country's rural women and youth.
As they endorsed the agreement on the margins of the 2019 World Youth Forum in Sharm El-Sheikh, the two leaders said young people in particular were critical for driving future innovation.
The FAO Director-General said he appreciated Egypt's support for FAO's recently announced Hand-in-Hand initiative which is designed to create tailor-made "matchmaking" between donors and recipients in order to target the world's most vulnerable people and help to achieve the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.
Qu noted that today's agreement with Egypt would open a new chapter of collaboration between FAO and Cairo that would help to build a different kind of future for agriculture in Africa.
The joint collaboration is aimed at promoting employment as well as training and capacity for women and young people working on farms and elsewhere in agriculture and the rural sector.