307 Results Are Tagged With "Women and Girls Empowerment"

IWOC Alumna Charts Own Path of Courage

Ten years ago, Ilze Jaunalksne received the International Women of Courage award by the U.S. Department of State. We caught up with Ms. Jaunalksne to reflect on her work since receiving the IWOC.

Saturday, March 18, 2017

Counseling and Training on the School Related Gender Based Violence

Research on schools in Uganda indicates that a child’s total school experience is strongly influenced by gender. The joint project by researchers at the University of Sussex in the UK, the University of Botswana and the University of Cape Coast in Ghana, found that institutional practices and traditions can lead to a highly gendered school environment rarely challenged by students or teachers. By condoning sexual abuse and aggressive behaviour, school authorities communicate to pupils that violence is a ‘normal’ feature of life. Schools, therefore, can be breeding grounds for potentially damaging gendered practices which remain with pupils into adult life. Yet, with appropriate intervention, schools can provide an enabling environment for the prevention of gender-based violence. The main objective of the proposed project is to provide quality counseling services to children and youth who are victims of school related gender based violence. The grant requested will also be used to provide training in counseling to stakeholders of the target community in order to enable them to counsel the students themselves. The target population is forty schools selected in the Eastern Region from four communities. Ten schools will be used as a control group and the remaining thirty as the sample size.
Saturday, April 5, 2014 - Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Trash to Cash

Two of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the 21st century is providing food for a burgeoning population and keeping the environment safe for future generations. In Nigeria, like most developing countries, there is indiscriminate felling of trees for wood and charcoal and ignorance on alternative ways of making charcoal. There is also great harm done to the environment (air, water and soil) due to wood and coal fires from bush burning ( or slash –and-burn agriculture), high rate of deforestation, loss of biodiversity, health issues from smoke inhalation and impoverishment due to high cost of domestic fuel in Nigeria. To save our environment, carry out sustainable agriculture and mitigate biodiversity loss we came up with production of charcoal through Pyrolysis of agric-waste (corn, cobs, dried stalk, rice husk etc) in custom made vessels. We organized a comprehensive workshop for members of two communities (training over 200 people). We planted over 5000 tree seedlings in Daudu village, Guma LGA of Benue State, gainfully employing aimless youths in charcoal production and reducing tree felling by 40% in six months.

Alumna Continues Fight Against Human Trafficking in Decade since IWOC

Despite false leads and death threats, 2007 International Woman of Courage Awardee Susana Trimarco de Veron uncovered evidence of trafficking networks operating in her home country of Argentina and still tirelessly works to raise awareness, change laws, and aid victims.

Friday, March 31, 2017

Women Taking Action For Change

Several teenage and single mothers are victims of domestic violence and abuse in my community where I grew. They need education on advocacy and financial empowerment to do mini trades as almost every Ghanaian woman is very industrious! The goal of this project is to train 40 young women age 14-35 in the Ningo-Prampram District to advocate for themselves and neighbors by March 2017. Project Objectives 1. Inform, equip, and support 40 Single/Teenage Mothers referred by community leaders, with basic social and legal knowledge in mitigating domestic violence, abuses and discrimination. 2. Empower participants with basic financial literacy skills. 3. To pilot an all women-led trade program with a US$100 dollar seed fund.

Summer Job

Expiration: May 20, 2018

Summer Job App

Tuesday, March 21, 2017 - Sunday, May 21, 2017

PROGRAMA DE FORMACION EN COMPETENCIAS EMPRENDEDDORAS

Emprendientos sostenibles, un Camino posible.El emprendimiento es el eje fundamental del crecimiento económico en la región latinoaméricana por tanto un indicativo de que “la economía está bien, esta en si se puede emprender bien”, pues si se bloquea el emprendimiento y con esto la competencia en el mercado, se cierra a sí misma la posibilidad de seguir creciendo. “Esto es un error que en el continente ya ha ocurrido”. Sobre todo en nuestro país Venezuela. Ahora mas que nunca en medio de esta profunda crisis que presenta Venezuela el emprendimiento emerge como una herramienta poderosa para la ayuda de la economía, pero también para el empoderamiento de las personas, el reconocimiento a la mujer y hasta el factor democrático que debe potenciar un país. Teniendo en cuenta lo anterior, es importante resaltar que el emprendimiento aflora como la alternativa para promover el desarrollo en nuestro país, la creación de ideas innovadoras y la elección de emprender como proyecto de vida hace que la economía de muchas familias se mantenga estable y mejore la calidad de vida de la población en general. Con este programa se pretende lograr en los participantes una visión sistémica de las organizaciones, del proceso de lanzamiento de nuevas iniciativas y su vinculación con el contexto, que le permita al nuevo emprendedor o emprendedora tener bases firmes para la toma decisiones transcendentales, facilitando la generación de confianza en el propio participante para que aprenda a hacer un mejor uso de sus recursos personales y profesionales, desarrollar competencias genéricas, diseñar e implementar equipos de trabajo dinámicos e interdisciplinarios. El surgimiento de nuevas iniciativas emprendedoras es uno de los factores más importantes en la reactivación económica/social de un país; encaminándolo a una cultura sostenible y sustentable para ello se requiere personas orientadas al logro así como a la colaboración; es decir talento humano con alta autoestima, habilidades sociales y cualidades como: pasión por el quehacer, visión de futuro, fijación de metas, capacidad de innovar, aceptación de riesgos calculados, facilidad para adaptase a los cambios del entorno y fluir en la incertidumbre, trabajo en equipo, honestidad, son estos individuos, que juntos, multiplicando sus saberes y dando el ejemplo con su hacer los que promueven valores ciudadanos que construyen un país. Está enfocado a potenciar actitudes movilizadoras hacia el emprendimiento, reuniendo temas relacionados al ser emprendedor; de igual forma, se incorpora conocimientos técnicos vinculados con el diseño de planes de negocio y su factibilidad de ejecución. Completando el conjunto de los momentos en alianza con actores locales. Otra variable que vale la pena destacar, es que este programa es promovido por un participante del Programa de Lideres Visitantes de la Embajada de los Estados Unidos en Venezuela, a partir de la experiencia vividas al visitar mas de decenas de universidad americanas y de compartir espacios de emprendimiento en colegas latinoamericanos también invitados a dicho programa. La propuesta de formación se estructura en seis momentos de aprendizaje: • CAMBIO DE MIRADA / ACTITUD EMPRENDEDORA • CREATIVIDAD PARA LA INNOVACION • DIALOGO, NEGOCIACION Y ACUERDO • MAPA DE NEGOCIOS • REDES Y MERCADEO DIGITAL • EL “CIUDADANO” EMPRENDEDOR
Saturday, April 1, 2017 - Saturday, March 31, 2018

School farm of broilers traditional breed improved and project to promote entrepreneurship and employment of youth in the Zio

50 hens of traditional race will be crossed with 5 cocks of foreign race. The crossing from chicks will be raised by 10 underprivileged of the Zio Prefecture, under the guidance of a specialist breeder, to be sold in broiler chicken. The income will be used to finance a project of training and supervision of 10 other young people of the same prefecture in cost-effective creation and management of Income generating activity (IGA) on four (4) years, from the second year of the project.
Saturday, April 1, 2017 - Saturday, March 31, 2018

School farm of broilers traditional breed improved and project to promote entrepreneurship and employment of youth in the Zio

50 hens of traditional race will be crossed with 5 cocks of foreign race. The crossing from chicks will be raised by 10 underprivileged of the Zio Prefecture, under the guidance of a specialist breeder, to be sold in broiler chicken. The income will be used to finance a project of training and supervision of 10 other young people of the same prefecture in cost-effective creation and management of Income generating activity (IGA) on four (4) years, from the second year of the project.

Women empowerment through Sports and Media

In short;
Being a professional Field Hockey player and sports anchor work for women empowerment through Sports and Media.

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