Category: grantees

$15,000 to promote and support women’s effective participation in traditional councils through intensive training for women councillors and some traditional leaders.

$30,000 to support women in the arts through the organization of one intensive rehearsal and workshop for a feature film called ‘Tell me sweet something’.

$15,000 to organize a 3 day national workshop to educate the minority women on leadership issues and the need to actively participate in the forthcoming Municipal and Parliamentary elections in Somaliland in 2012.

$10,000 to train members of relevant governmental and nongovernmental organizations on detection of signs of sexual violence and provision of specific assistance;

$10,000 to organize two training workshops and one follow up workshop each for selected women conflict management practitioners and passive victims engaging with conflict in Somalia.

$25,000 to implement a project titled “Creating a conducive and safe environment for women’s participation in the November 2012 local government elections”.

$12,000 to organize series of training and educational activities for selected women interested in politics and leadership; undertake advocacy activities to lobby district governing structures and political parties to involve women in leadership positions and all activities during the November 2012 elections.

$15,000 to organize awareness creation activities on the Domestic Violence Act, Devolution of Estate and Registration of Customary marriage and Divorce for 150 rural women, law enforcement officers and traditional leaders in Kailahun and Kono districts. Part of the grant was used to hold radio programmes to educate people on the various Acts.

$40,000 to train women and young women in Njagbema, Buuma and Ngelehun communities in Pujehun, and Bo Districts of Sierra Leone in vocational skills in the area of weaving, soap making and tie & dye making; to support women farmers with training and input. Part of the grant is for Institutional support including the purchase of a motorbike and a computer and allowances for a project coordinator, finance officer, and three community based field assistants

$5,000 to support the seed capital of UWDP’s revolving loan scheme to reach more rural women engaged in petty trading and food production.