Project Context
The rise in domestic violence cases has laid open the practice of discrimination against women as a tradition. But it has also been observed that economically empowered women are better able to tackle domestic violence and also lead others out of this traumatic problem. A few case studies on this issue have given evidence as to how entrepreneurial women have fought back against violence and have established themselves as independent leaders of their community. Based upon these stories, it is proposed to scale up these small cases of success by education women and empowering them with livelihood skills so that they are able to confidently fight back against domestic violence.
Project Objectives
- Identify entrepreneurial women leaders and present them as role models for women in the community
- Increase the knowledge of community women on human rights
- Improve the livelihood, marketing and entrepreneurial skills of community women
Project Activities
- Identify and document cases of successful entrepreneurial women leaders and present their reports to the community and the media.
- Organize training workshops for community women on human rights.
- Organize livelihood trainings, provide skill development and seed capital for women to help them undertake enterprising activities.
- Identify and transfer information to community-women about existing women-led enterprises
Project Outcomes
- Community women develop skills and enterprising qualities for undertaking entrepreneurial activities
- Improved knowledge of community women on human rights
- Publication of successful entrepreneurial women leaders
- Database of successful, local women-led enterprises and their supply chains, production and marketing
