animatrice

plural animatrices

1. A woman who is trained to teach skills and lead activities for her peers.

   Much has been done in recent years to teach occupational skills to animatrices that will be useful to girls and mothers in rural areas.

   1977, David A. Mitchnik, Improving Ways of Skill Acquisition of Women for Rural Employment in Some African Countries, “Training of animatrices and village leaders”, pages 26–27

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   Included activities such as collective farming, mills and donkey carts; literacy, village maternities, child care, health education, weaving, constructing latrines and water filters, sewing, civics, training of animatrices and TBAs plus other activities.

   1977, Joyce Jett, The Role of Traditional Midwives in the Modern Health Sector in West and Central Africa, page 63

   The specific functions of each animatrice are delineated in the projects in the report. The regional animatrice, charged with overseeing the activities of the village and family animatrices, would be responsible to a team of project supervisors. This team, composed of researchers, engineers, development assistance managers, educational planners, and a representative from the funding agency, would plan, follow-up, and evaluate the project components in cooperation with the regional animatrice.

   1980, African Women in Development, page iii

   The Equal Access Project inaugurated the concept of selecting and training village women as paraprofessionals (animatrices and midwives) as a means for basing skills in the community, transmitting information, and organizing activities at the local level.

   1981, Ellen Taylor, “III: The Role of Paraprofessionals in the Equal Access Project”, in Women Paraprofessionals in Upper Volta’s Rural Development, page 13

   In the second case, continuing training and "sensibilisation" by PLAN instructors and animatrices is indispensable; otherwise the formation of committees and the selection of village paraprofessionals would be meaningless.

   1983, Stanford-Berkeley Joint Center for African Studies Annual Conference, page 8

   My job description required that I ‘co-ordinate the women’s work in the centres’ and ‘supervise the animatrices working there’.

   1983, Wout van den Bor, editor, The Art of Beginning: First Experiences and Problems of Western Expatriates in Developing Countries with Special Emphasis on Rural Development and Rural Education, Pudoc, →ISBN, page 123