Women Empowerment

This report corresponds to the workshops VI to VIII by Fundación Oportunidad. The previous report has included the work from the initial stage of the call to the Workshop IV. Workshop V was in charge of Man Power, central partner in this project, since it is in charge of the process of tutorials that have started immediately finished the stage of socio-labor training by Fundación Oportunidad.

At this time the work of the FOP has been completed, having fulfilled satisfactorily with the objectives set.

It should be noted, however, that the desertion of women has been a critical issue in which we have dealt with the responsible professionals of the Amparo Center. We have conducted telephone interviews with each of the women who have had difficulty sustaining care, finding different causes that explain their desertion. The reasons cover a range that ranges from personal difficulties to having already found a job.

We understand that the vital situation of these women, undermines training processes extended over time. The economic, time and family resources that are mobilized to attend 9 meetings (Meeting of convocation + 8 Training Workshops) of two hours each, are not simple to sustain. This has led us to think about another working frame for possible future editions, consisting of days and half days of work combined with virtual tutorials. This would allow the design to be adjusted to what the field presents as a condition of possibility, avoiding, in this way, imposing a format that hinders the process itself with the consequent inefficiency with respect to the economic and professional resources destined.

We believe that by making the necessary adjustments that this first edition has allowed us to detect as improvement points, we will be able to amplify the subjective effects in the participating women.

The evaluation has been made taking into account quantitative as qualitative variables. As for the hard data, the assistance has been, as we mentioned, the critical point of this project. We have started working with 19 women, of whom + - 6 have managed to sustain the process. However, and this is important to note, among some of the women who are not among the 6 who have had regular attendance, we have been able to verify through their own testimonies the positive subjective effects of the work performed. These data allow us to ratify the proposed new framework.