Entrepreneurship initiative for rural women

In most rural areas, women have limited access to financial opportunities since they have less assets. Despite being the most bread winners of most rural households, access to financial services like loans, donations and offers is very limited as compared to men. Addtionally, the African Traditional Society has limited rights to financial capacity for women thus leaving them unable to sustain almost all their needs. This leaves them in a loose loose situtaion where they can neither start a business nor support their household needs, despite the fact that most family responsibilities are left to them.

On the other hand, men have greater financial opportunities, favoured rights and better options for decision making that also supress women needs. 

We are creating sustainable solutions to poverty by supporting rural women to start up enterprises that can cover their household needs. In most rural areas of Uganda, Women are the bread winners of their households meaning they need stable incomes to support them. Our entreprenuership model helps them understand the pottential among themselves plus the readily available opportunities that they can use to start up their own enterprises. 

Amidst the trainings we also help them formulate cash rounds that use to accumulate capital which they use to start up their own enterprises. With our continous montitoring and support they have been able to create strong businesses that support their household needs and use the supplus to save and initiate new enterprises. 

We are helping women, we want to help them have capacity to tackle the most pressing challanges within their own households by helping them start small enterprises which can support their needs. 

We are also empowering them with practical business skills that are helping them initiate small and medium enterprises that are solving the problem of unemployment among their children. 

We are a group of development practitioners that have been highly equipped with community development knowledge that best suits the needs of the less previllaged people. Additionally our team has been expossed to greater rural development trainings with both local and international partners which has aided their capacity to work very well with rural communities of Uganda. 

We have also been able to develop a management system that ensures proper and effecient use of resources readily available within the organization. These incluse the human, financial and Monitoring and evaluation systems which enable us implement projects in a righful manner.

We have so far reached out to over two districts, covering over 35 villages.

The total number of people trained and spported is 20,000 and 1000 in training.

We have also recruited 10 more new villages in Mukono specifically with over 500 women. 

We want to connect with organizations in the same field and also meet new partners and funders that can support our work.

We are supporting rural women through an inclusive model that engages both the youth and their parents which enables us to develop sustainable educative and entrepreneural programs.

Our programs therefore impacts the general household welfare including children and thus impacting the whole community.

Increase women micro-enterprise development through training and capacity building of women living in rural areas.

Increase savings through forming village savings and loans schemes that can provide financial support for startups in the rural settings.

Improve on loan services for those with little or no access to start up capital to enhance self reliance among rural women.

We have been able to track our progress by looking at the following;-

- The number of women enrolled in our trainnings from the beginning to the end (Graduation)

- The number of businesses started affer being enrolled into the training by the participants.

- The increament in employment opportunities in a particular community recieving the training modules.

- The number of granduants from different cohorts among others.

We base our efforts on Community Builder's Approach  where we are able to think critically about what is required to bring about a desired social change. Forexaple we think about the broader problems e.g. 

- gender inequality 

- economic inequality 

- poor access to education and how our project might function as a small step towards achieving a solution to this big problem.

We are using a mobile based application called Taro Works to monitor and evalutate the progress of our project. This tracks records from the baseline of the training, mid-line, exit and Post training to exhuastively understand its impact to the participant.

For our village Savings and loans scheme we are using a digital banking system (Co-Bank+) which helps us track the financial records of all the village saving and loan schemes with in our project.

We are a multi-linguistic initiative working with all the common tribes in Uganda with major intrest in areas that have been largely affected by poverty mainly those in rural areas. Additionally we are closely working with learning institutions to open up doors for literates to access financial literacy knowlegde.

Despite the fact that our efforst are largely invested on women we work closely with the men to ensure there is equity and inclusiveness in planning, decission making and sustainable implementation of our projects.