Trail Blazers: Stories of Women Champions from IFAD Projects

Trail Blazers: Stories of Women Champions from IFAD Projects presents snapshots of the lives and achievements of simple rural women from the project areas whose immense courage and dynamic leadership helped improve their own lives as well as the lives of their families and communities.

This is a narration of stories of extraordinary achievements of ordinary women, of women who dared to take a stand against all odds to break the mould and of women who were not afraid of being ambitious while continuing to play their traditional roles in the family and society.

The stories are along simple lines of Women Champions who have emerged in the process of institutional building, livelihood development, enterprise development and governance in their states.