Supporting Rural Youth and Women in Kakamega,Kenya

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;

1. 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;
2. Objective Two: To initiate both women and youth on business basics,what it means and takes for an activity to be called a business;.
3. 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;
4. Objective 4: To ensure both women and youth understand what entails savings and effective record-keeping.