CEDAW/C/1996/3/Add.4 English Page 13 Honduras, Lebanon, Namibia, Peru, Philippines, Tunisia, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Additional missions were sent to Nepal, the Niger and Rwanda to facilitate country-level preparations for the Conference. 51. Under Phase I, assistance was provided to ministries of agriculture, and/or the women’s machinery in each country, to carry out an in-depth analysis of available information on rural women, to prepare a sectoral report on rural women to be included in each country’s national report for the Beijing Conference, and to hold a workshop to discuss critical issues affecting rural women that were addressed in the sectoral report. These reports are also intended for use by the ministry of agriculture and the national women’s machinery as a working document for promoting the advancement of rural women. 52. Phase II activities under this programme are to strengthen national capacity to implement the Platform for Action, which was adopted at the Fourth World Conference on Women. At present, the Government of Norway is supporting Phase II activities in Namibia, Nepal and the United Republic of Tanzania, and FAO continues to seek donor support for such activities in the remaining countries that participated in Phase I of the Programme. 53. Technical assistance was also provided at the regional level for the development of region programmes of action that were presented at the Fourth World Conference on Women, and FAO participated in all the regional preparatory conferences organized by the economic commissions. 54. In Africa, a regional synthesis report was prepared based on the sectoral reports on women in agriculture and rural development of nine African countries (Benin, Burkina Faso, Congo, Mauritania, Morocco, Namibia, Sudan, United Republic of Tanzania and Zimbabwe). For Asia and the Pacific, FAO also prepared socio-economic studies on women in agriculture and rural development in China and Viet Nam, as well as a paper on women and agro-based small enterprises with a focus on credit and training in Asia, for distribution at the Fourth World Conference on Women. 55. In Europe, FAO initiated a project to compile data and information and prepare country profiles on women’s role in agriculture and rural development in Central and Eastern Europe. Based on the results of the profiles, a regional synthesis report was prepared and presented at Beijing. A total of 10 countries were involved in this effort: Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. 56. In Latin America and the Caribbean, FAO supported the preparation of sectoral reports on rural women in Bolivia, Honduras, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru and Venezuela. A document on rural women of Latin America and the Caribbean, prepared with FAO support, was included in the regional report presented at Beijing. FAO also published a case-study on women in the Peruvian Amazon, which analyses the situation and roles of women in the social and economic context of the Peruvian Amazon. 57. Under the Regional Programme of Action for Women in Agriculture in the Near East, support for the preparation of sectoral reports on women in agriculture and rural development was provided to 17 countries: Cyprus, Egypt, Iran /...