Archives in the category: economic empowerment and livelihoods

Ekiti Development Fund

$50,000 to set up a credit scheme, organize financial management training and award small credits to 20 women from selected women’s cooperatives; Create awareness on gender based violence and the Equal Opportunities bill in Nigeria. The bill will be translated into Yoruba for wider circulation.

Briskila Emefesi Women Foundation

$4,000 to train selected women within Mulang community in Nigeria, in business and credit management and provide them with credit to expand their income generating activities.

Youth Alive

$10,000 to economically empower selected women in rural Northern Ghana with a piggery and goat rearing project.

Women Ventures International

$25,000 be awarded as institutional support to cover personnel development, communication and transportation, documentation and a media campaign to address issues facing women in business enterprises. The campaign will also seek to influence a paradigm shift in the way banks see women as clients.

Rural Women Development and Health Initiative (RUWDHI)

$4,000 to organize training in enterpreneurship, business management and employable skills (fruit juice, jam, cereal processing, pomade and soap making) for members of the group; to provide startup capital to the trainees to start up their own small scale business enterprises.

ROZEE Foundation

$5,000 to support the training of young women in the production of bags.

Project OKURASE

$4,000 to train selected women in gari processing, purchase and install gari processing equipment to enhance processing activities of the beneficiaries. Some women will also be trained in fruit drying and processing.