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Addressing the NEET (Not in Education, Not in Employment, Not in Training) situation through sustainable social enterprising activities such as waste management, bakery, tie-dye and female driven ?keke-taxis?.

The project intends to create job opportunities for young people especially women and persons with disability. It will be a business that will promote community activities and events, promote and foster business opportunities in the areas of waste management, tie-dye, female operated keke-taxis and bakery.
The goal of this project is to upscale eWomen Waste Management business startup by exploring the possibility of acquiring a local mechanized technology for making eStones and briquettes. At the same time, to explore the possibility to launch other business activities in the areas of tie-dye, female managed keke-taxis and bakery.

?Social Enterprising and marginalized people go together. The project will explore the possibilities of using social enterprising for transformation. The project will endeavor to become a valuable community asset that will enhance existing social enterprising, provide opportunities for growth and development and bridge the ?wealth divide? that is said to exist between the rich and poor.

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Project Snapshot

Grantee:

eWomen Sierra Leone

Country:

Sierra Leone

Area Of Work:

CapDev

Operational Phase:

OP6 -Y4 (Jul 18 - Jun 19)

Grant Amount:

US$ 5,000.00

Co-Financing Cash:

Co-Financing in-Kind:

US$ 2,727.27

Project Number:

SLE/SGP/OP6/Y4/STAR/CD/29/08/2018/56

Start Date:

10/2018

End Date:

9/2019

Status:

Satisfactorily Completed

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Bid and Slippers made by youths from e-Women

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Project Characteristics and Results

Notable Community Participation

The communities actually owned the umbrella organization and therefore members of the different affiliated bodies have been part of the design stage of the project through series of meetings and consultations. It is expected that the project will be implemented by the different women groups and that it will build on previous interventions managed by the executive of the umbrella body with the coordinator acting in the capacity of a project manager for project.

Capacity - Building Component

The organization is highly receptive to building capacity of its staff and they willing to request for assistance to achieve this. eWomen has regular volunteers and staff; implements activities; and has good knowledge of waste management, project design/evaluation and implementation. Our major challenge is that we do not have sustainable funding. Fundamental areas to continue to strengthen include strategic planning, annual budgeting, project design and implementation, monitoring and evaluation, fundraising, community mobilization, advocacy, effective communication with stakeholders and maintaining transparent and accountable internal governance structures.

Inovative Financial Mechanisms

The project is built on the principle of enhance knowledge management which is a key factor for success in this project as it is instrumental towards making a lasting impact in the communities and encourage the issues of replication of some of the concepts. eWomen Organization will use its best effort to generate and share knowledge through its activities that involves exchange visit within the different business associations in the country to bring out lessons learnt and experienced gained during the implementation phase of the project.

Policy Impact

The project plans to produce policy impact because it will focus on building sufficient technical capacity of our organization eWomen to facilitate policy development, ensuring that relevant policies are coherent and harmonized and have a positive impact on employment creation. For example, in our waste management business component, the Makeni council is expected to make Waste Management and Minimization Plan for the next 10 years. With our activities in waste management, we will produce policies and bylaws to impact the council?s work on related plans.

Promoting Public Awareness of Global Environment

The project result will be communicated regularly as desired by the donor to ensure transparency, consistency and accountability of set deliveries identified as part of the indicators used to measure success. Stories of change and lessons learnt will be compiled during the implementation of the various activities. Challenges faced will also be communicated to pursue how best we can address.

Significant Participation of Indigenous Peoples

The project will seek to include indigenous people in its implementation by using local language in training and communication.

Gender Focus

eWomen is a female driven organization that put women first. The ?e? in the name eWomen stands for empowering women. Women forms more than 50% in its composition. Leaving no one behind is also very core in its mandate to promote social inclusion.

Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods

eWomen promotes livelihood security through improving the diversity and security of resources, skills and technologies that are available to communities with different backgrounds. Livelihood options available to individuals and households depend upon the diversity of resources, skills and technology they can access. Therefore, the security of their livelihood also depends on the security of their available resources. eWomen is therefore providing training through its social enterprise activities in alternative livelihoods that will give people the opportunity to diversify and become more resilient in times of need. eWomen?s work on livelihood diversification includes training in off-farm activities. This includes work in waste management, bakery, keke-taxis, tie-dye, tailoring and embroidery as alternative sources of income that can be full time or part time activities

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Indicators

Empowerment

Innovative financial mechanisms put in place through SGP project 1

Livehood

Number of individuals (gender diaggregated) who have benefited* from SGP project 50

Biophysical

Number of innovations or new technologies developed / applied 2

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