07lk-4910 - Micro-Enterprise Development for Rural Women - year 2
The main objective of the project is to promote micro-enterprise development for individual women and women’s groups. There are seventeen (17) base organizations in seventeen provinces that will be involved in the project. The primary beneficiaries are rural women, they number around six thousand (6,000) households or one thousand two hundred (1,200) individuals. Studies have shown that women have limited access to agricultural support services such as farm inputs, credit, training, technology, infrastructure, support for marketing and transport of agricultural produce, and others. The disadvantaged status of women, marginalization, subordination and inability to fully take part in the development process, remains a major challenge in the agrarian reform effort. The Lakambini essentially proposes to use three interrelated strategies of micro-enterprise technical assistance, financial services and policy advocacy that specifically targeted to individual women or women’s groups. For this proposal, the main components are the (1) Marketing and Training Assistance and (2) Policy Advocacy integrated with a (3) Mentorship Programme.