Grants and Contributions

Project activities include the following: (1) building the capacity of the Office of the Auditor General of Mali (BVGM) to produce and disseminate audit reports that take gender equality into account; (2) providing support to the Ministry of Justice in its efforts to fight fraud and corruption; (3) building the capacity of civil society organizations, particularly women’s organizations, to use reports and recommendations from the BVGM and the Ministry of Justice to defend their rights and promote more responsible and inclusive governance.

Project activities include: (1) integrating gender-responsive play-based learning into teaching practices; (2) engaging parents and caregivers in addressing the gender-specific learning needs of girls and boys, including at-risk children; and (3) increasing the integration of gender-responsive play-based learning techniques in teacher training (pre-service and in-service).

The project seeks to achieve this by adopting a gender transformative approach to recognise, formalise, and amplify women’s existing roles in the agricultural sector.

This project seeks to create an enabling entrepreneurship ecosystem for low-income women and youth in West Bank and Gaza. Inspired by the concept of Obader (Arabic for ‘I initiate’), the project aims to reduce structural and social barriers to entrepreneurship, while simultaneously working to increase business opportunities for women and youth to successfully start-up, sustain, manage and grow environmentally conscious and sustainable businesses. Project activities include: (1) designing and delivering a media campaign to raise and challenge perceptions and attitudes towards women’s economic participation, entrepreneurship, and women in non-traditional enterprises and roles; (2) conducting awareness sessions promoting entrepreneurship; (3) delivering a capacity-building package including training, exchange visits and role modelling to women entrepreneurs; and (4) holding networking and information sessions between micro-finance institutions, banks, business development centres, incubators, accelerators and youth entrepreneurs.

Project activities include: (1) building local governments’ capacities to increase women’s participation and leadership in natural resources management, environment and climate change decision-making bodies; (2) providing technical assistance in the establishment of municipal economic development strategies related to natural resource management and climate change; (3) providing technical assistance to women’s organizations in developing community supportive services (i.e. child day-care centers) and providing training on gender equality legislation, natural resources management and climate change; (4) providing technical assistance to entrepreneurial women in improved conservation and sustainable use of forest resources, and in entrepreneurial management skills; (5) promoting short agroforestry value chains for local urban markets and highly specialized markets and services; and (6) promoting the adoption of innovative and time-and effort-saving technologies by entrepreneurial women.

It is estimated that, every year, approximately 15,400 pregnant women, 3,000 women who are potential victims of gender based violence and 3,400 children are to benefit from the services provided by the health institutions supported by the project.