PILOT WOMEN IN DEVT.

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The Women in Development Pilot Support Project establishes a viable process for strengthening the institutional capacity of support services to better address women's issues. The project comprises three components. (A) Strengthening of the Ministere de la promotion feminine (MPF) institutional capacity in: (i) policy and program formulation through strategy development, studies, monitoring and evaluation, and information feedback and dissemination; and (ii) coordination and promotion of activities concerning the improvement of the status and welfare of women. (B) Improvement of the economic and social welfare of rural households by enabling the rural outreach program in three sub-regions to support rural women to: (i) increase their productivity through better access to agricultural extension messages and assistance; (ii) form more women cooperatives; (iii) improve food crops storage, processing and marketing to facilitate investments; (iv) improve their literacy, numeracy, knowledge of household economics, primary health care, nutrition, and personal and rural hygiene; and (v) increase their capacity to save. (C) Improvement of the marketable skills and social welfare of marginalized urban women enrolled in selected Institutes for the Education of Women through: (i) skills training; (ii) preparation in competing for specialized vocational training programs; and (iii) assistance in finding employment.

World Bank Group

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Raw Materials, Government, Education