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TERRITORIAL APPROACH POLICIES AND THEIR IMPACTS FOR GENDER ISSUES IN THE REGION OF MATO GRANDE
- RN, APPROACH POLICIES AND THEIR IMPACTS FOR GENDER ISSUES IN THE REGION OF MATO GRANDE - RN
Gender. Territory. Public policy. Gender equality. Rural. Participation. Territorial Development.
The present research intends to verify to what extent policies of territorial approach can impact on gender issues and
collective empowerment of rural women. The study area is concentrated in the Territory of Citizenship of Mato Grande,
in Rio Grande do Norte, specifically, the territorial collegiate of that region, called Forum of Mato Grande (FOMAG),
in which a Thematic Chamber and Women Committee was opened , called Dona Zizi, bringing together about 15 female
leaders from all 15 municipalities that make up the region, and who actively participated in the collegiate. Through this
study, it was possible to conduct semi-structured interviews with ten women in full social isolation, due to the pandemic,
in a virtual way by applications such as Google Meet and WhatsApp. For the selection of the interviewees, the method
known in Brazil as snowball was used, which consists of creating a network of confidantes, in which each interviewee
indicates people. An analysis was also carried out in 21 records of atas of FOMAG plenary sessions that we had access to,
referring to the years 2006, 2012, 2014 and 2015. Although without access to the totality of the registrations, their
analytical study allowed us to structure categories, agendas of the collegiate, the configuration of participants,
the existence and quantification of gender issues. It was concluded that the performance of the chamber of women
was important for female leaders and to bring to the collegiate debate issues of interest to women, including making
women's participation and deliberation happen in projects related to the economic issue, guiding the bias of gender.
Finally, the great importance for autonomy, political emancipation and empowerment of leaders for farmers in Mato
Grande, through policies of territorial approach, such as those analyzed from the years 2005 to 2020, is also emphasized.