Grants and Contributions

The project seeks to support the economic empowerment and resilience of women farmers in Senegal’s Casamance region by improving their access to agricultural insurance as a way to mitigate the impact of climate change. The project focuses on the availability of financial products and services tailored to the needs of women farmers and enhances their ability to access and use them.

Project activities include : (1) Providing training and support to women farmers so they can access and use financial products and services, including agricultural insurance; (2) building the capacity of grassroots cooperatives and regional financial institutions to tailor their range of products and services to the needs of women; (3) developing and implementing an innovative business model for distributing agricultural insurance to women and women’s groups; and (4) building the capacity of the Compagnie Nationale d’Assurance Agricole du Sénégal (CNAAS, Senegal’s national agricultural insurance company) and national financial institutions to develop and provide products and services tailored to the specific needs of women.

The project is being delivered by SOCODEVI with the help of two local partners, the CNAAS and the Organisation de Formation et d’Appui au Développement (OFAD/Nafoore).

The indirect beneficiaries are estimated at approximately 900,000 people making up the population of all the households to which the direct beneficiaries belong, who represent 7,000 women members of 150 agricultural groups (GFVA) in the rural regions of Casamance.

Project activities include: (1) Providing Technical Assistance to the Bauchi State Primary Health Care Development Agency to establish a functional gender unit within the agency, develop gender toolkits, guidelines, and plans for PHC and Reproductive Maternal Newborn Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCAH) programming; (2) Training frontline health workers on adolescent friendly sexual and reproductive health and gender equality for RMNCAH programming; (3) Training key policy makers and health program managers of the Bauchi State Primary Health Care Development Agency on Sexual and Reproductive Health, and Gender Equality in PHC and RMNCAH service delivery; (4) Facilitating mobilization exercises for men and boys on positive masculinity and gender-responsive behaviors in RMNCAH services; and (5) Training women support groups on RMNCAH, Gender Equality, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, women leadership, and strengthening women’s agency.

This project aims to address the proliferation of small arms, light weapons and ammunition in the Sahel region that fuels armed violence, which in turn creates further demand for Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW). This project proposes an innovative two-faceted approach that complements previous and ongoing arms management activities funded by PSOPs and other donors to address this complex problem. Firstly, this approach mitigates the risk of diversion of state-held weapons and ammunition in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger. Secondly, it addresses the impact of SALW on communities in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger by increasing knowledge of safe behaviour related to the threats of improvised explosive devices and identifying alternative sources of revenue for producers of handmade weapons.

Mines Advisory Group works to improve stakeholders' abilities to include gender considerations and gender-sensitive initiatives in ammunition and weapons management activities. It seeks to understand SALW impact on communities through a gendered lens.

Project activities include: (1) providing training and technical support for the destruction and disabling of weapons and ammunition; (2) increasing waste management of ammunition remnants; (3) providing technical support for the marking of weapons; (4) conducting a feasibility study on weapons tracing; (5) mitigating threats of explosive ordnance through education; (5) integrating gender considerations in arms management; (6) advocating for a national policy on the management of seized weapons; and (7) identifying alternate sources of income for artisanal weapons producers.

DFATD’s International Scholarship Program wishes to support ELAP scholarship recipients to participate in a virtual Leadership Series.

DFATD’s International Scholarship Program wishes to support ELAP scholarship recipients to participate in a virtual Leadership Series.

DFATD’s International Scholarship Program wishes to support ELAP scholarship recipients to participate in a virtual Leadership Series.

DFATD’s International Scholarship Program wishes to support ELAP scholarship recipients to participate in a virtual Leadership Series.

DFATD’s International Scholarship Program wishes to support ELAP scholarship recipients to participate in a virtual Leadership Series.

DFATD’s International Scholarship Program wishes to support ELAP scholarship recipients to participate in a virtual Leadership Series.

DFATD’s International Scholarship Program wishes to support ELAP scholarship recipients to participate in a virtual Leadership Series.