After the implementation of the first and second phases of training and qualifying the third batch of displaced women in the field of producing baked goods, pastries and sweets, the implementation of the third phases (marketing) and the fourth (monitoring and evaluation) began during the months of April and May
After the equipment and raw materials were distributed to establish small home projects for all trainees at the end of the second phase in conjunction with the approach of the blessed month of Ramadan, the trainees began home production and marketing during the blessed month of Ramadan according to the project plan (because the demand for pastries and sweets is increasing sharply in Islamic countries)
The M&E team conducted two field visits to the homes of all trainees to see their productive activity, assess the level of implementation, and provide assistance to the trainees for marketing
The first field visit lasted two days from 3 to 4 April: On the first day, the displaced trainees residing in the districts of Al-Safia and Maeen in the capital were visited, and on the second day, the displaced trainees residing in the districts of Al-Thawra and Bani Al-Harith in Sana'a were visited.
During which it was verified that the displaced women have prepared suitable places for the equipment and equipment that was disbursed to them from the project, as sites for their home projects, and to ensure that they are producing in their homes, and to know the mechanism of selling and marketing the products.
The team found that 12 displaced women have started working and producing in their homes and selling their products, but in varying proportions, while 8 displaced women are facing some problems.
During this visit, an amount of 20,000 Yemeni riyals was disbursed to each trainee, in order to help them in marketing and selling their products.
Mrs. Arwa Al-Hababi, Director of the Office of Social Affairs and Labor in Al-Safia District in the capital, Sana'a, participated in this visit
The second visit on April 16 (coinciding with the approach of Eid al-Fitr) in which all the displaced trainees were visited, and the team found that 18 displaced women had started working and producing in their homes and selling their products, but in varying proportions, while the displaced women were unable to provide places for production because their housing is narrow and there is not enough space in it.
During this visit, an amount of 20,000 Yemeni riyals was also disbursed to each displaced woman, in order to provide more raw materials required for the production of sweets and pastries, which will be marketed and sold on Eid Al-Fitr.
Before the end of last June, and in conjunction with the approaching Eid al-Adha, the first small commercial project was supported and launched for the trainee, Mrs. "Fatima al-Zaidi", who achieved good success in home production and marketing. She was able to set up a small shop in her neighborhood called "The Golden Furnace" to sell her products. She asked the project to help her, as she needs a glass cupboard to display the products at the entrance of the shop, and a sunshade for the gate.
The financial officer of the project, Mrs. Ruqia Al-Sayyad, was assigned to purchase and install the glass cupboard and the sunshade for the shop of the displaced woman, under the supervision of the head of the monitoring and evaluation team for the project, Mr. Fouad Abdo.
The happiness of the displaced woman, "Mrs. Al-Zaidi", was great on the day she opened her shop.
The organization had allocated part of the project budget to support successful cases
This is the first success of the trainees and within a short period of not more than two months, which encouraged the rest of the trainees to increase their efforts in production and marketing, and the monitoring and evaluation team is still communicating with the rest of the displaced trainees to help them.
After the end of the blessed Eid al-Fitr holiday, the project management began to follow up with the competent government agencies in order to obtain an official permit to implement the project, and not to complete the training and qualification of the rest of the batches until the permit is issued.
Civil society organizations and international organizations are facing difficulty in obtaining permits, due to the complex procedures imposed by the de facto authorities in the Yemeni capital, Sana’a. It is expected that the permit for the project will be issued before the end of this July, as it was agreed with the relevant government agency (the Supreme Council for Humanitarian Affairs and International Cooperation) on the detailed budget for the project, the timetable for its implementation, and the mechanisms for selecting the targeted displaced women.
Coordination and preparation are currently underway for the training and rehabilitation of the fourth batch, and it has been agreed with the Happy Childhood Foundation to establish the training program at their headquarters, due to the good experience and qualified cadres of this institution for training in the field of plastic waste recycling.
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After stopping for more than a year due to the lack of donations that the project received during the year 2022, the project won a grant of $35,575 from the Hope in Crisis Fund - emergency and long-term support for communities affected by humanitarian crises in Yemen and the Democratic Republic of the Congo - supported by GlobalGiving
A plan was drawn up to train and rehabilitate 50 displaced women in Yemen during the year 2023, divided into four programmes.
With the approach of the holy month of Ramadan, which began today, Thursday, March 23 (which is a sacred month for Muslims, where they perform the duty of fasting throughout the lunar month), AWTAD hastened to implement a training and rehabilitation program for the third batch of 20 displaced women in the field of producing baked goods, pastries and sweets, because the demand for Bakery, pastries and desserts rise significantly during Ramadan
It is a great opportunity to promote and market the products that will be produced by the home-based projects of the displaced families that will be rehabilitated and supported
This batch was implemented in partnership with:
Khairat Foundation for Training and Development of Productive Families
It is a charitable organization that specializes in training women to work and produce. It owns laboratories equipped for training in the production of baked goods, pastries and sweets. It has good experience in this field. The training course has been implemented in its laboratories, according to a partnership agreement signed with it.
and with Wahj ALHayah Foundation For Dev.
It is a partner institution with us since the beginning of the project and has good experience in implementing economic empowerment projects for poor and displaced families. A partnership agreement has been signed with it to implement this program.
The program included four phases
The first: selecting qualified displaced women to participate in the program. This stage lasted a whole week
The with Wahj ALHayah Foundation and the Khairat Foundation prepared a list of displaced women who are nominated to participate in the program.
And a team of social researchers was formed to go to the field sites for the displaced female candidates and select 20 displaced women according to the pre-determined conditions and criteria.
The second stage: the intensive training course: which lasted a full month with a total of 60 training hours (20 training days - 3 hours per day): from February 26 to March 20, 2022, the training course included the theoretical and practical aspects, in addition to basic information in the field of packaging Products, marketing, financial inclusion and project management
All materials and tools required for training were provided, including raw materials for practical application. Transportation allowance and daily breakfast were also provided for the trainees.
The third stage: Establishing small home projects and starting the pilot production phase: where all basic equipment, tools and raw materials were purchased to establish small home projects for each trainee, and on March 21, 2022, an honoring ceremony was held for the trainees, and small home projects were handed over to each trainee and transported and delivered to the residence of each displaced person
This was done only two days before the month of Ramadan, and according to the program plan, the displaced women will start home production at the beginning of the month of Ramadan
The fourth stage: which is marketing, follow-up and evaluation: which will be implemented during the month of Ramadan, from March 25 to April 20, 2023, during which a plan will be implemented for marketing and promoting the products of home projects, as well as follow-up and evaluation of the trainees and solving any problems or difficulties that they will face.
After the completion of the fourth stage, a comprehensive report will be prepared, and recommendations will be made to deal with any difficulties encountered by the home projects of this batch
The follow-up and evaluation team made field trips on April 3 and 4 to visit all the trainees and learn about the home projects, and find out the difficulties and obstacles they face, in order to prepare a marketing program for their products.
According to the program plan, the estimated initial cost of this program, which has been allocated from the grant provided by the Hope in Crisis Fund, is $14,700.
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After our success in successfully completing the training and qualification for the second batch of the project, which targeted 10 displaced women in Sana’a in the field of waste and user recycling, the rest of the batch’s activities were supposed to be completed in the production and marketing phases, and the training of ten other displaced women
The organization's bank account has reached $299 of the donations that the project received this year, and we hope to get more donations in the next December campaign, which will help us implement the rest of the activities of the second batch.
But our organization decided to postpone the rest of the activities until 2022, due to the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has spread widely in Yemen in the past months.
The problem is that only 1,000 doses of the Corona vaccine have reached the capital, Sanaa, and the areas under the control of the Houthi movement so far, which were provided to some health staff working in isolation centers.
While more than twenty million citizens have not yet received any dose of the vaccine
The situation is dangerous, and any new activities will pose a threat to the lives of the displaced women and their families, especially with the deteriorating situation of the health system and services in Yemen due to the war.
We think this step is absolutely necessary
We call on donors to provide more funding, to continue helping more displaced women in Yemen during 2022
AWTAD Anti-Corruption Organization launched the second batch of the project, implementing the first and second phases (selection of trainees, training program) and postponing the third and fourth phases (home production, promotion and marketing of products) until support and funding are provided The start of a delay of more than three months due to the outbreak of the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Yemen The project team developed several training options to choose the best and most appropriate household chores for poor displaced families. The organization was planning to train 20 displaced women (as was done in the first batch), but the lack of funding and donations obtained by the project forced the organization to reduce the number to only 10 displaced women, and despite the financial difficulties faced by the organization due to the war in Yemen and the spread of the Corona pandemic, but the organization contributed by providing 40% Funding for this training course The organization also coordinated with some local organizations to implement the training course, and these organizations are: 1- Jana Al-Janatayn Foundation for Women and Childhood Development: which provided training rooms in its headquarters in the capital, Sana’a 2 Family Foundation for Development: which contributed to the logistics services 3- Wajh Al-Hayat Foundation (and it previously participated with us in the implementation of the first batch) and it has selected the trainees from among the displaced women, according to the specific conditions of the project, conducting interviews with them and providing logistical services While AWTAD provided funding, program management, supervision and follow-up The female trainers, all the raw materials and tools necessary for the training phase, were provided with breakfast meals for the displaced trainees, and a transportation allowance was paid in cash. An intensive six-day training course was held, from Saturday, July 10 to Thursday, July 15, with a total number of 18 training hours, with daily follow-up and evaluation. There were wonderful outcomes of the training course, the most important of which were: 1- The trainees gained good information and experience in recycling waste and used things, which will provide them with a new source of income. 2- Producing a wonderful group of furniture and accessories that will be promoted for sale in the future for the benefit of the trainees 2- Changing the culture of the trainees towards used objects and waste, as the societal culture in the local environment in Yemen looks at work in the field of waste with a negative view, and the majority of the community members believe that the waste and used objects should be disposed of, but this training course changed the culture of the trainees, and they became convinced That they can turn waste and used things into useful and wonderful things 3- Establishing friendships and intimate relations between the displaced women participating in the training course, and what will contribute in the future to the establishment of joint economic projects 4- Strengthening partnerships and collaborative programs between AWTAD and local organizations participating in the program We hope to be able to complete this batch by training another 10 displaced women, purchasing and distributing raw materials and tools for home production for all 20 trainees and setting up a marketing program to promote the products. To achieve this the project needs more funding, and, I hope the supporters will respond and make donations for the project
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During the last quarter of last year 2020, the project received donations of only $ 825, but a part of it was deducted by foreign banks in exchange for bank transfer commissions of $ 175, in addition to a financial grant to help the organization face the repercussions of the Covid-19 pandemic of $ 1000.
The second batch of the project was supposed to be implemented in the year 2020, but the organization had to postpone it to 2021 due to the scarcity of donations on the one hand and the quarantine to confront the Corona virus on the other hand.
Because of the Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting losses, the organization was forced to disburse financial donations made to the project in the year 2020 to help displaced women who graduated from the first batch (for more information, review the previous report), leaving only 7850 Yemeni riyals ($ 13.08), which were deposited into the organization's account. In the bank in Yemeni riyals.
The project team then followed up on the displaced women who had graduated from the first batch and evaluated the results
During January 2021, the project team began preparing for the implementation of the second batch of the project, through the following steps:
1- Selection of the names of the displaced women who will participate in the second batch: The organization had prepared a list of names and information of 300 displaced persons - according to the project plan - and 20 of them were previously selected in the first batch, but the events and changes that occur in Yemen due to the war and health and economic crises lead to the instability of many The displaced people are in the areas of their displacement, and therefore it was necessary to review the previous database, to select the participants who are settled in the capital, Sana'a (according to the project plan) and from poor families who do not have men who are able to work, and thirty displaced women have been selected, twenty of whom will be approved. They were contacted, and dates were set for the interview and the field trip to the sites of their displacement during the month of February
2- The project team studied the types of handicrafts that will be selected for the training and production program for the second batch, and the project team agreed to change the types of handicrafts that were previously trained in the first batch, which were:
- Manufacture of women's bags and accessories: where the success rate was very weak and did not exceed 30%, for several reasons, the most important of which is flooding the local market with cheap ready-made products imported from China, and the inability of the products of the displaced women to compete with them, and other reasons, including the lack of suitable sewing machines for the majority of the displaced
The manufacture of perfumes, incense and cosmetics: Although the first batch graduates achieved 70% success, the working and producing families of this type of handicraft increased their number greatly during the past two years as a result of similar programs implemented by other organizations and associations, after the success of our program
- With the events of the year 2020 resulting from the Corona list, the urgent need for sterilization materials, hygiene, medical masks and simple sanitary supplies appeared, and therefore the team decided to choose a training program for household handicrafts for this type of products, as one of the training programs for the second batch.
- The team is studying another proposal, which is optional, by receiving proposals from the displaced during the conduct of personal interviews, according to their personal desires and hobbies, so that the most desired proposal among the participants is chosen, to be part of the training programs for the second batch.
The success of the organization in implementing the second batch (or more than one batch) during the year 2021 is related to the size of the donations that the project will receive during the year 2021, and the organization directs a distress call to the donors and donors to provide support for the project, and help us save hundreds of displaced and poor families in Yemen from poverty and hunger. And diseases.
The organization is also searching for other sources of funding, whether local or external. In the first step, the organization submitted a proposal to the "Community Welfare Guarantee Grants - A Virtual Peace Program", which was announced last January at the link https://sites.google.com/site/nextworldnowcommunity/home
We are awaiting a response to the proposal, and the organization will try to search for other sources in the coming months
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