The package is targeted toward self-employed women and toward NGOs concerned with women’s promotion.

It aims to empower women by developing their skills and capacities; to increase labor opportunities offered to women and to help raise their families incomes; to provide self-employed women with the skills necessary for establishing and managing small projects; to incorporate the gender concept in the process of identifying needs and developing loan programs for small projects; and to foster coordination actions between governmental and non-governmental organizations concerned with women’s promotion.

The package comprises four modules plus a trainer manual. The modules are :

1) Sensitization to poverty and gender issues, and the role of women small projects in development;

2) Planning for women small projects : from needs assessment to loan programs;

3) Developing skills for establishing and managing small projects;

4) Role of networks in developing voluntary action for development

(Publication is in hard copy at CAWTAR)

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