Women’s Economic Advancement in Value Chain and Entrepreneurship

dropped

Failure

The proposed Grant will support approximately 4,000 rural, poor women, including home-based workers, small scale unorganized producers and community-based entrepreneurs, to work as a collective in the non-farm sector. The grant will provide basic skills and organization to create the ecosystem for business in the rural economy. Multiple innovative women’s economic empowerment models will be pilot-tested through value chain development (e.g. spices and natural fiber crafts, etc.). This will be implemented through the formation of producer groups that will be provided with skill upgrading, marketing, prototype development, basic financial literacy and accounting. The project will support the establishment/strengthening of community facilitation centers (CFCs) at community level, which will train community professionals to manage the CFCs and support producer groups beyond pilot implementation. It will also support capable group members demonstrating business growth, consistently increased profitability and product diversification based on market demands to further improve their individual businesses.

FY17 - Agriculture, Fishing and Forestry,FY17 - Industry, Trade and Services

World Bank Group

Project

Rail, Raw Materials, Government, Residential