How do we work?
The principles of our development projects
- Supporting women supports the whole community
- Empowering women socially and economically
- Strict quality criteria
- Slow paced change
- Aim to gradual independence from external support
Women’s Bank supports women’s livelihoods through:
- Village banks savings and loans schemes
- Locally owned savings groups on a sustainable basis
- Vocational education
- Learning to earning through vocational education and courses
- Entrepreneurship training
- Training, consulting and guidance to enable an entrepreneurial approach to livelihood
- Guidance in business and business literacy
- Developing functional business literacy and numeracy
- Supporting market access
- The knowledge and infrastructure to gain market access
- Civic skills training
- Networking
- Locally, regionally, (inter)nationally
- Women’s Cooperatives
