Trinidad and Tobago Network of Rural Women Producers (TTNRWP)
The Trinidad and Tobago Network of Rural Women Producers (TTNRWP) is the Trinidad & Tobago chapter of Caribbean Network of Rural Women Producers (CANROP). TTNRWP has been in existence for the past 11 years. The current membership consists of groups of rural women throughout Trinidad and Tobago. CANROP was launched in July 1999 with support of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation in Agriculture (IICA), rural women of Barbados, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago . The main goals of the Network are to provide rural women with access to credit for micro-business projects, to contribute to government policies that are sensitive to and supportive of the special needs of rural women producers, to contribute to the elimination of the gender bias in the ownership of land, ensuring that women have the same opportunities as men to own property. The Network also seeks to provide marketing support for rural women producers and to offer training, research, t