وقد تم تقديم التقرير في 24/4/2002 إلى البرلمان الاتحادي الألماني مشفوعا ببيان من الحكومة الاتحادية.
After the Federal Government's pilot project run from 1993 to 1996 "Rural women help themselves" in Saxony-Anhalt, successfully supporting rural women in setting up their own agricultural businesses, since 1998 the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth has implemented a pilot project in the new Federal Länder "Rural women shape structural developments in rural regions - SELF", which it successfully concluded in 2001.