Further, the information and awareness-raising actions on the various opportunities of development and funding as well as any program aiming at improving the status of women in the rural environment shall become the subject of national programs of local outreach towards women. About the effective inclusion of a ‘gender’ approach in development, the commission observes that the recommendations formulated in the previous report in 2008 on this issue are still relevant. Indeed, while this concept is more and more mentioned, or even introduced into some training programs, further efforts still need to be made for the implementation of the gender approach to be included by all stakeholders and to lead to changes in behaviors. Regarding the process of ‘awareness raising’, we observe that albeit the process started several years ago, it certainly remains to be strengthened by a qualitative improvement of the content for an accurate inclusion of the concept of gender. This concept is very often understood in an erroneous and restrictive manner in so far as it limits itself to a mere focus on ‘woman’. We would rather recommend an approach of ‘ man and woman’, whose added value is that it includes the complementarity of social roles of each category. Because of the insufficiency, or even the inexistence of appropriate indicators to measure the results of the implementation of this approach, the progress made cannot be reliably evaluated. Moreover, some institutions implement a training program on the gender approach, yet this approach is not followed with implementation on the ground. Several reasons may explain this state of affairs, in particular: a limited targeting of the categories that should be sensitised or trained, and inadequate financial resources available. In terms of data disaggregated by sex and related to the socioeconomic situation of women in rural environment and their involvement in the development process, we recommend to resort to more studies and specific surveys for a more refined knowledge of the decision making process for a better inclusion of a ‘gender’ approach in the economic development. E. Creation and functioning of the network of monitoring centers The objectives of the project initiated by the CIDDEF are twofold: to inform and to raise awareness of society and the public authorities on violence against women, with the aim of preventing cases of violence, and to support victims. These objectives rely on the listening work of the centers and the sharing of collected data. Also, to achieve the set objectives, a series of actions has been undertaken:  The development of a network of associative monitoring centers;  Elaboration of a database and training of (female) listeners to use it;  Active coordination of the network;  Specific training on listening female victims of violence;  Analysis of collected cases of violence and dissemination of the results.