Our main driving goal is ‘to advance women’s socio-economic, political and health interests for the empowerment of the grassroots feminine species in Kenya’.
The grant will be used to promote the rights of women living with HIV/AIDS by integrating their participatory decision-making skills and to build the confidence and leadership of women living with HIV through economic empowerment of positive living women.
The general objective of the project is to promote the rights of women living with HIV/AIDS by integrating their participatory decision-making and build the confidence and leadership of women living with HIV with the specific objective of creating awareness on women’s rights and sensitize positive living women on their rights within communities. The women’s right-angle approach in this project is the sensitization and creation of awareness among positively living women on their rights as women and rights as persons living positively.
Organisational Background
XXX is a grassroots community-based organization that champions women’s interests, rights, health, socio-economic, political, basic freedoms and privileges applying to humanity and the dignity of the person. We work towards projecting African women’s voices on all aspects of development.
Women empowerment group was founded in Year XXXX by XXXXXXX as the team leader together with XXXX. XXX started as an informal community-based organization and was purposed to champion the reproductive health rights of grassroots women. The organization was formerly registered as a community-based Organization under the Registrations of groups Act by the director of social services.
Main Goals
Our main driving goal is ‘to advance women’s socio-economic, political and health interests for the empowerment of the grassroots feminine species in Kenya’.
Focus Areas
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- Governance and Social Development
- Reproductive Health Rights
- HIV/AIDs Management
- Women Economic Empowerment
Grant Purpose
The grant will be used to promote the rights of women living with HIV/AIDS by integrating their participatory decision-making skills and to build the confidence and leadership of women living with HIV through economic empowerment of positive living women in Marigat Sub-county of County in Kenya.
The grant will at large extend support leadership development through focused dialogues to inform women living positively of their rights as women and how they can build a stronger democratically driven team and elect their own to leadership positions to promote participatory decision-making. The principal priorities will be to inbuilt women’s rights and confidence in running their own socio- Economic activities.
The project will be for a maximum project period of 10 months and will be aimed at strengthening the voices of positively living women by sensitizing them on the basic rights, freedoms and the importance of their participation in decision-making in core areas of development.
Objective
Positive Women’s Economic Empowerment project intends to achieve its set goals and outputs under the following objectives;
General Objective
‘To promote the rights of women living with HIV/AIDS by integrating their participatory decision making and build the confidence and leadership of women living with HIV ‘
Specific Objective
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- To promote the rights of 20 women living with HIV/AIDS through participatory decision-making and leadership confidence
- To create awareness on women’s rights and sensitize positive living women on their rights within communities.
Project Activities
In order to achieve the purpose, goal, objectives and final output of this project Women Empowerment Group seeks to implement the following activities developed together with the project beneficiaries during the leading activities to 2015’s World AIDS Day;
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- Beneficiary mapping/baseline survey – This activity will involve collection of basic data on the target beneficiaries in order to get the neediest cases. Criteria to be considered shall include the beneficiaries being HIV+ and financially disadvantaged women. An external consultant shall be competitively recruited to conduct the survey for
- Women’s rights and confidence building interactive forum-Six interactive workshops shall be conducted, two per month, during the first three months of project implementation. These workshops are intended to sensitize positively living women to their basic rights as women and their rights as persons living positively. Additionally, the women will be capacity built on organizing into support and entrepreneurship skills, including group formation, development of group governance and management structures, group registration, the election of leadership and secretariat. The workshops will be used to build confidence of women, develop their life skills, and advance their leadership skills, thus enabling them to be better decision-makers. Lastly, the women will be capacitated to run their own social enterprises without recourse of fear for the stigma associated with their
- Business incubator boot camp- 1 -day boot camp shall be conducted targeting each of the three selected groups of positively living women. The boot camp, complete with the business establishment and management props, shall involve female entrepreneurs who have excelled amidst difficulties coming not only as facilitators but long-term role models who mentor the beneficiaries long into the future. Business knowledge and skills, ranging from business planning to start-up, operations, management, sales, marketing, expansion, financial management and financing, shall be
- End-term project evaluation- This will involve an assessment of the project beneficiaries’ socio-economic status data on the impact of the project on their daily lives.An external competitively- recruited expert shall be contracted to conduct an impact evaluation. Such results shall be shared with organization as a report on the positive impact of the grant.
Project Innovation
The innovation in this project is the self-driven approach for positive living women to enable them to incubate what they know best to improve on their understanding of their rights as women, as persons living positively, participating in role-playing to propel their socio-economic rights and building their own confidence in handing their own projects.
Women are powerful. Even the seemingly most disadvantaged of them have the power to better their lives and livelihoods given the opportunity. This project offers opportunities. Opportunities women can use to meet the demands of their lives and self-actualize. Unlike other development interventions, which come in to “train” and “donate” free goods and services to “helpless beneficiaries”, this project places the beneficiary at the center of the action, as the powerful decision maker charting and working towards the realization of her destiny.
Female business gurus who’ve risen out of a position of disadvantage are used to show the way for currently disadvantaged women through practical, highly tailored capacity building that’s cognizant of the unique challenges and opportunities these women face. Working with women who are all HIV+ creates strong bonds thanks to their common status. Such groups tend to be strong, closely-knit and work passionately together towards their common goals.
Women’s Right Angle or Approach To This Project
The women’s right-angle approach in this project is the sensitization and creation of awareness among positively living women on their rights as women and rights as persons living positively. The authority to control, organize and coordinate the entire project guarantees women their rights to make their own decisions and hence build their confidence.
The women’s involvement in the design and development of this project led to the coming up of this project idea and therefore, positive living women are set to enjoy the full benefits of the project and also, they will have a competitive advantage over male dominance.
Positive living women will also empower themselves economically to counter economic and financial dependency on men. Beneficiaries to this project shall improve the livelihoods of their households through the income generated from the project in the final end.
Expected Outcomes
Through this project, Women Empowerment Group aims to attain the following outcome(s)
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- An enlightened group of women on their rights
- Increased participation of positive living women in decision
- Increased confidence of women living positively to go for leadership position
- Improved living standards of positive living women and their households
Project Justification
The organisation works towards the whole round empowerment of African woman on all spheres of socio-economic, political health rights and therefore organisation should support this project because it seeks to contribute into supporting women who are faced with challenges, discrimination and stigma related to their social status of living positively. This project also seeks to empower women economically which is a great decentralization of organisation’s support to grassroots women and further, the project will create awareness on the organisation’s work and efforts to empower the African Woman.
Project Area
This project was designed, developed and is set to be implemented in Marigat Sub-County in Baringo County and shall target mainly women living positively who were part of the organization’s 2015 world AIDS day beneficiaries. The main occupancy of the project area is the TugenNjemps people who are one of the indigenous people in Africa.
Expected Direct Beneficiary
For this project; Women Empowerment Group aims at directly impacting of the lives of 20 positive living women and 10 others negatively living women and their households through decision making and leadership empowerment
Expected Indirect Beneficiary
Upon the resultant targeted outputs, we are also targeting at indirectly impacting up to 150 persons living positively and additional 500 community members who will gain from using the bucks which will be breeding the dairy does to improve on the quality of their local breeds in Marigat Sub-County of Baringo County.
Monitoring and Evaluation
To assess impact, xxxx will administer beneficiary project contact point evaluations where beneficiaries shall be responding on 3-month basis. The data obtained for the evaluations shall then be analyzed shared with organization to inform of the project’s progress and the impact that will have been achieved.
To monitor on the projects progress, xxxxx will be making impromptu field and project site visits to monitor, make and submit progress reports to the donor on the impact, challenges and areas of improvements. Monitoring reports shall be made by the line project staff and shall be promptly shared and copies kept in records.
