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Kolektif Rivier Nwar is presenting the Women Entrepreneurial Assistance Program. This project has two parts:
The aims of this program is to:
Criminalization of poverty was an issue raised during a stakeholder meeting in 2014 and it was determined that this was partly due to a lack of education for women and the lack of secure jobs for them. At the time were there no entrepreneurial activities. This is when the idea came about to engage women in income generating activities. In parallel, assessment of the psychologist who worked with the children of the region revealed that women were stressed out about providing for them families and often these children were the recipients of these frustrations.
The following activities were therefore offered under the WEAP program:
Partners & Funders :
Implementing agency / NGO :
Budget: Rs 49877
Beneficiaries: 10 women as direct beneficiaries and 21 children as indirect beneficiary
Monitoring and Evaluation: Attendance sheets and dashboards, Situation analysis & Progress reports
Results
Women’s empowerment :
Public participation :
Capacity building :
Changes in gender attitudes at individual and community level:
Challenges and lessons learnt
How have these challenges been overcome?
It is important to have regular individual visits to assess the progress and it’s also compulsory to engage trainers that speak Creole language so they can bond with them.
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