Here's the Plan...

Do Ability

The project relies on the initiative of the women to generate their own concrete solutions such as clinics, HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment, clean water, latrines, gender equity initiatives, women’s rights campaigns, and other community efforts.  

Readiness

The 280 women of Mida Woromo have requested the training and are eager to start this process. Interweave has done all the groundwork in setting up a partnership with a local human rights organization to implement the business training, education and advocacy needed.

Impact

The project will enable 280 women to begin uplifting themselves and their families through economic self-sufficiency and more active participation in the development and improvement of their village.

Propriety

Traditionally, it has always been men who have owned and managed livestock and women have been underappreciated and underutilized, often not allowed to own land or manage the animals.

Ethiopia’s future economic and social development requires that these specific misconceptions about women’s role in agriculture be confronted and that more generalized attitudes and practices that limit women and their right and capacity to thrive on an equal footing with men be overcome.

Sustainability

The requested Tipping Bucket funding is for a vital but one-time, non-recurring training and business start-up and revolving loan seed-money to begin self-sustaining businesses that will generate future income.