The Football Association is driving forward its commitment to developing the women’s game by holding a workshop for the CONCACAF region in Trinidad & Tobago this week under the umbrella of The FA-CONCACAF Co-operation Agreement.

The FA’s Football Development Manager, Ros Potts, Regional Football Development Manager Helen Croft and Birmingham County FA Football Development Manager Natalie Justice will give a detailed insight into how the female game has progressed in England.

The advances made by England’s senior women have seen Hope Powell’s team qualify for the FIFA Women’s World Cup in China next year having last featured in the competition back in 1995.

As part of the three-day seminar in Port of Spain, the participants will be asked to identify the challenges that they face in developing and running women’s football in the CONCACAF region, sharing good practice from The FA in England.

The United States and Canada women’s teams have traditionally qualified for major tournaments because of a more developed and mature female soccer infrastructure, with Team USA having twice won the Women’s World Cup.

Yet the status of women’s football among the smaller nations which compromise CONCACAF lags behind the men’s game.

England has experienced similar problems but The FA has made concerted efforts for girls’ and women’s football to receive more widespread recognition.

The workshop in Trinidad’s capital Port of Spain is the third of its kind this year, with Botswana and Lesotho – The FA’s partner countries under the UEFA-CAF Meridian Project – also benefiting from the expertise of English football’s governing body.