International Committee for the Promotion of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives

From April 26 to 29, 2011, the ICCIC Vice-Chair Yuan Peng was invited to attend the “Advancing Women's Economic Opportunities Meeting” by The Center for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA), sponsored by the ExxonMobil Foundation.

The ExxonMobil Foundation is expanding their Women’s Economic Opportunity Initiative to bring women into the technological revolutions within their communities.In order to inform ExxonMobil’s new focus, CEDPA invited eight expert alumni to Washington, D.C. this week to strategize the best approaches to engage women with technologies ranging from agricultural tools to renewable energy sources so they can economically benefit.

The participators came from Argentina, China, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Mexico and Nigeria. They all work at the community level and will bring their substantial first-hand knowledge to help the Initiative better understand and overcome the constraints women face in applying technology.