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Women's Economic Empowerment
Project / Program Summary

I. Basic data

Sector(s):
Title: Women's Economic Empowerment
Donor country/ organization: UNDP
Other donors / organizations involved: The Foundation of Women's Forum - Sweden
Beneficiary countries / regions: African countries - Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cap Verde, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe
Implementing agencies in beneficiary countries / regions:
Duration: 5 years
Starting Date: October 1998
Project / Program budget: $5,000,000
Finance / Type of cooperation: grant / technical cooperation / loan

II. Project / program description

  1. Objectives
    1. To develop a framework for policy development linking grassroots women's small enterprise with national policies and programmes on micro lending.
    2. Support women to establish small enterprises on a pilot basis.
    3. Develop a monitoring methodology to monitor the pilot projects.
    4. Explore alternative funding mechanisms to support small micro enterprise programmes for grassroots women on a sustainable basis.
  2. Activities / contents
    • Undertake country analysis situation of women in poverty in the pilot countries
    • Undertake grassroots pilot projects with community based organizations
    • Establish and implement a women's leadership institute to share experience from the different countries.
  3. Expected outcomes / impacts
    • Countries in the SADC region will share information and best practices on women's economic empowerment at the grassroots level
    • Countries will strengthen networking for gender mainstreaming and women's economic empowerment both within the SADC and Africa.
  4. Features in line with the Agenda for Action
    1. Gender mainstreaming
    2. Poverty reduction
    3. Capacity building
    4. Strengthening South-South cooperation

III. Contact point:

UNDP Africa, Policy Unit

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