307 Results Are Tagged With "Women and Girls Empowerment"

Friday, June 1, 2012 - Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Women in Business and Management: Leadership and Mentoring Community (AEIF 2012)

This projects aims to create a local community for women from diverse professional and economic backgrounds in mid-management business positions in Egypt. It will strengthen the participants? network and working relationship with women in management and leadership positions helping to build capacity and confidence by exchanging success stories, challenges, solutions, and best practices. This local network will mentor girls and young women who are entering the workforce, thus creating a support system.
Saturday, January 19, 2013 - Sunday, June 30, 2013

People with disability-How to survise in extreme weather and natural disaster in central part of Vienam!

192 families including members of the disabled group in Cat Tuong commune, Vietnam, are suffering from loss of life in natural disasters due to climate change and natural disasters, and are suffering from poor livelihoods due to a lack of income generation opportunities for vulnerable groups
Friday, January 18, 2013 - Monday, December 2, 2013

Emerge Pakistan ? Empowering Women, Youth and Other Minorities in the Democratic Process (AEIF 2012)

This project empowers women and youth, as well as other minorities, to become involved in the democratic process. Emerge Pakistan will train 30 university students in public speaking, fundraising, networking, campaign strategy, field operations, and ethical leadership. During six months of training, participants will develop political motivational skills through social media and form connections with the legislative, judicial, and business sectors of Pakistan. Two months into the project, three host institutions will create student-led governing bodies to engage participants in university, local and national political issues, and to engage in community service projects.
Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Women and Youth's League for Democracy - WYLD (AEIF 2012)

This project is one of the AEIF awardees for 2012. It aims to enhance Malagasy women and youth's participation in the democratization of their country. The main tasks are: (i) spreading democracy principles, (ii) observing elections and (iii) reporting failures and positive changes
Sunday, July 1, 2012 - Sunday, June 30, 2013

Building the Entrepreneurial Capacity of Grassroots Women and Youth (AEIF 2012)

The project will involve the training of rural-urban women and youth groups in entrepreneurial and business skills.. The Alumni team together with its partners will develop suitable training tools to run pre-test and training workshops for small scale entrepreneurs in the areas of Uganda known for higher concentrations of low socio economic status and those regions still recovering from recent wars and natural disasters. More specifically, work will be conducted in the districts of Gulu, Kibuku, Isigiro and Hoima.
Sunday, July 1, 2012 - Sunday, June 30, 2013

Multi-media Dialogue Against Gender-Based Violence (AEIF 2012)

Instead of simply teaching students about gender violence and civil rights issues, this project will give young men and women the chance to imprint their views through a multi-media interactive project. A road show aimed at encouraging the youth to speak out will be created, using media created with Namibian role models promoting civil rights and denouncing gender violence. This project aims to create safe spaces and solicit feedback from youth from many different cultures within Namibia. As a part of the interactive roadshow, students will interview each other using loaned portable and inexpensive video cameras, gathering their reactions, feedback, and experiences about the material and dialogue. By using technology not currently widespread in Namibia and engaging youth at all stages, this project innovatively tackles critical issues and dialogs and allows young people to openly and safely discuss them.
Sunday, July 1, 2012 - Monday, July 1, 2013

Empowering the Women of Vietnam?s Mountainous North (AEIF 2012)

Despite previous programs financed by the Vietnamese government and development partners such as the World Bank, there remains a disproportionately high incidence of poverty among Northern mountainous communities in Vietnam, especially among women. This project will empower ethnic women to participate in social activities in order to amplify their voice as well as increase their awareness of other available funded projects/programs in the area.
Sunday, July 1, 2012 - Sunday, June 30, 2013

Training Rural Women Entrepreneurs in Export Marketing Skills (AEIF 2012)

This project will increase the capacity of medium and small scale women owned businesses in rural areas to access export markets so that they can better sustain their families and communities. Specifically, the women entrepreneurs will learn about project identification, product development, quality control, packaging and marketing- all essential skills in a market where consumers and wholesalers demand consistency and volume. The team will partner with the AWEP chapter in Ghana as a source of information to both rural entrepreneurs and existing businesses that would ultimately purchase the goods and services these women produce.
Sunday, July 1, 2012 - Sunday, June 30, 2013

Promoting Women Entrepreneurs in Rural Cameroon (AEIF 2012)

This project targets rural women and young girls in a large scale training and skills program so that there can be greater participation by these women in the markets and business community. The women will receive training and regular coaching on how to start and sustain a business, as well as preparing 230 young girls in rural areas to be the female entrepreneurs of tomorrow by providing them with school supplies and sensitizations on the importance of completing their schooling.
Monday, March 4, 2013

Socially Inclusive Entrepreneurship Training (AEIF 2012)

The main goal is to assist women entrepreneurs in Ecuador to contribute to social and economic development through improving and expanding their businesses. The project team will create a community of collaboration and support for the women through an experiential seminar, introducing these women to powerful networks of entrepreneurs of their area, and providing a forum through which they can share their experiences and lessons learned. The alumnae aspire to overcoming the gender bias in existing business and entrepreneurship seminars. These two-day experiential seminars are tailor-made programs, especially designed for women who will address the particular challenges they face in a business environment.

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