Economic Empowerment
Economic Empowerment & Practical Trades
Certified target budget
43% funded (74 donors)
Youth, women & children
Compliant Law 2025-19
Economic Empowerment & Practical Trades
Vocational skills certification in income-generating activities and financial literacy training for rural women farming groups.
Specific Objectives
- Equip youth with directly employable artisanal skills (bookbinding, liquid soaps, beadcraft).
- Train rural women agricultural cooperatives in financial literacy and cooperative governance.
- Foster entrepreneurial leadership and self-reliance to overcome youth unemployment.
Measured Field Results
- 30 youths certified in bookbinding, soap-making, and beadcraft with local enterprise OTTI & FILS.
- Cooperative bookkeeping and SWOT workshop for Gbénonkpô women cooperative in Athiémé.
- Higher-education academic counseling clinics for 50+ high school graduates in Comè and Lokossa.
How We Operate on the Ground
Identification of viable local micro-businesses (liquid soap making, archival binding, beadwork).
Practical hands-on training clinics alongside certified master craftsmen.
Financial literacy modules on basic cash accounting, profit calculation, and cooperative governance.
Market access support and facilitation of community revolving micro-credit.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Mission Field Photos
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3,990,000 FCFA remaining to fully fund this project.
Execution Factsheet
Field activities linked to this program
Concrete workshops, caravans, and sessions conducted across municipalities.
Empowerment: Financial Literacy & Village Savings
Capacity building for 65 women agricultural workers on simplified bookkeeping, microcredit, and mobile savings.