$30,000 over a period of 2 years to train selected number of farmer groups and women associations in entrepreneurship development and value chain management. Part of the grant was earmarked for the establishment of networks among trained women with organizations that address the needs of grassroots women in agriculture and access to land.

$5,000 to train women in waste recycling (briquette making).

$15,000 to purchase office equipment (a computer, a scanner and a digital camera), to pay 4 staff salaries and office rent for a period of one year.

$15,000 to purchase and install a chilli hot pepper and peanut butter sauce making machines for the Dego Boka Halat Women Association and train the women farmers in chilli and peanut sauce production.

$30,000 to support a planned regional workshop on EAC trade policy and customs regulations scheduled to take place in March 2013.

$10,000 to support the establishment of forum for women small scale farmers and women farm workers, to facilitate training and exchanges around value adding options and agro-processing of primary produce. Part of the grant was earmarked to establish seed banks and undertake farmer-to-farmer extension/exchanges to share experiences and practices.

$20,000 to empower young girls and women to play active role in climate change mitigation as well as develop sustainable skills for economic security.

$20,000 to complement the government of Sierra Leones’ Rural and Private Sector Project (RPSP) efforts to promote and empower the private sector including local farmers in the whole country.

$15,000 to complete the two year intensive integrated vocational training for 35 vulnerable girls (commercial sex workers, single mothers, school drop outs and widows) in tailoring, hairdressing, non-formal literacy education, psycho-social services including HIV&AIDS education and human rights education.

$4,000 to rehabilitate and modernize a dilapidated store used for the storing of grains and drying floor used as preservation facility for farm produce.