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Biakoye District
Women’s Empowerment Program
In the Biakoye District, women’s rights and opportunities are undermined by social barriers, patriarchal tribal customs, widespread illiteracy, and women’s ignorance of their economic rights. Women’s financial dependence on their male relatives or husbands continues due to a combination of cultural and economic factors, and the gender gap in education remains as large.
According to the gender assessment conducted by FHI in the District prior to rolling out the Women’s Employment Program, there are large gender gaps in terms of labor force participation between adult men and women (74% vs. 24%) and male and female youth (53% vs. 37%), and both adult and young women are much more likely to be unemployed as compared to their male counterparts (12% of adult men vs. 55% of women; 26% male vs. 74% female youth). Furthermore, harassment and difficulties working in the formal private sector, the lack of access to capital or credit, lack of awareness of economic
empowerment programs for women, and social and cultural norms that discourage women from practicing key entrepreneurial behaviors like competitiveness and other barriers that hindered women in the Biakoye District from participating in economic activities.
Through the Women Empowerment Program, FHI works in the Biakoye District to create economic opportunities for women and enhance their inclusion and participation by increasing their skills and knowledge and enhancing their self-employment/entrepreneurship potential to improve their livelihoods.
The program has reached more than 227 women with various activities, including training in life skills, financial literacy, and entrepreneurship, followed by coaching and consulting in business development; 160 women have attended awareness sessions on the importance of women’s economic and social empowerment and entrepreneurship; and 175 women have been financed with interest free loans and started up/developed their small businesses, creating job opportunities for about 84 people, most of whom are women.
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