Project Report
| Nov 14, 2018
Community Engagement with women
By Kennedy Akunda | Admin & Project Assistant
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Our staff and volunteers visited the project areas and held community engagement meetings with groups of women. The meetings were aimed at conudting evaluation through simple questionnaires to determine the level of success and challenges facing the project. The meetings were also attened by some of the youths benefitting from the project.
Our team also conudcted story telling sessions where the women narrated the impact and chnages in their lives as a result of the project. The story telling program has been part of the the new initiative to capture impact of our organization through first hand expereinces narrated by our partners on the ground.
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Jul 23, 2018
Visit to an Economic Empowerment project
By Kennedy Akunda | Admin & Project Assistant
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Poultry project started by women
As part of program, we work with women through community groups to set up income generating ventures from money saved from no longer needing to purchase kerosene. Before this, the women receive our Mwangabora solar lamps assembled by youths, and then undergo a comprehensive training on aspects of financial management, business modelling and development and technical aspects that relates to thei specific business venture.
Last month, our Program Director visited such income ventures to asses the needs and progress. The women we able to share their experiences and highlighted areas of success and problems. Our organization will continue to support such projects including more technical and business development training, market access support and links to more financial investments.
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Jan 26, 2018
Business Development Training for Women
By Kennedy Akunda | Admin & Project Assistant
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Part of women who attended traning in Kakamega
Desirous of the need to empower power women and girls in local community areas with basic business skills, SDFA engaged the services of a training consultant to deliver business modules to women groups in Mukhuyu area of Kakamega county. The trainings were to run over a period of 4 non-consecutive sessions from November 2017 until January 2018
SDFA-Kenya and the consultant compared different learning materials with regards to suitability of each module to the target participant group. The two parties eventually settledon broadly using learning material shared by SDFA-Kenya with a few presentation tweeks. This content was more aligned to the participant needs and was very simple and therefore easy to understand, and well adapted for use in community setup.
The training sessions targeted to empower old women and girls to professionally run their funded businesses for purposes of self-sustainability.
Specifically, it was designed to achieve the following objectives;
- Objective one: To help women understand all the aspects of a group,what is required for one to qualify to be a group, and its dynamics;
- Objective Two: To initiate both women and youth on business basics,what it means and takes for an activity to be called a business;.
- Objective three: To guide both the women and youth in understanding components of a business plan,market analysis and how to manage efficient business planning;
- Objective 4: To ensure both women and youth understand what entails savings and effective record-keeping.
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