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Empowering Communities & Persons with Disabilities through Skill Training in the Face of Poverty

The project responds to the urgent need to rebuild the social fabrics of Pujehun district and to maintain economic and political participation of Persons with Disability in the District and in Sierra Leone in general. It does this by seeking to address one of the root causes of poverty in the district through the development of improved training and employment opportunities. Persons with disabilities are one of the highest unemployment and poor categories of the population in Sierra Leone, especially rural areas.
This training will endeavor to establish private enterprises either individually or in small groups with the support they will receive from the intervention. Therefore the project will support such individuals or groups through enterprise support so that they have the right skills to establish viable businesses and become gainfully employed. Furthermore, persons with disability face significant barriers in entering the labour force due to a lack of access to financial products and services that are necessary to stimulate business growth and create a culture of savings. For this reason there is a critical need to support disable friendly and inclusive financial services through micro finance programs that will enable them to actively participate in economic development.

The above outcomes will contribute to the fulfillment of Sierra Leone?s government commitment to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs: 4, 5, 8, 10 and 16); Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). The project is also reflected to other relevant programmes such as local district and national government programmes, other donors as aligned with the expanding access and improving quality and equity of employment opportunity and job creation as projects including GEF and UNDP projects on reducing poverty and discrimination of persons with disabilities in Sierra Leone.

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Project Snapshot

Grantee:

Local Action for Development

Country:

Sierra Leone

Area Of Work:

CapDev

Operational Phase:

OP6 - Y5 (Jul 19-Jun 20)

Grant Amount:

US$ 25,000.00

Co-Financing Cash:

US$ 3,500.00

Co-Financing in-Kind:

US$ 1,500.00

Project Number:

SLE/SGP/OP6/Y5/CORE/PWD/20/09/2019/57

Start Date:

11/2019

End Date:

12/2020

Status:

Satisfactorily Completed

Project Characteristics and Results

Notable Community Participation

At the start of the project, LAD will carry out baseline assessments for purposes of selecting the persons with disability and the youth that will participate in the project. Memorandum of understanding will be drawn with each youth structure and later the youth business entities to ensure that project objectives, activities expected results and indicators of achievement are agreed upon; and that procedures for implementation and reporting are clearly outlined and established

Gender Focus

Cross-cutting issues will be implemented by LAD. Gender, HIV/AIDS and disability mainstreaming approaches in addition to sound environmental practices will be covered under management capacity building workshops. It is expected that person with disability and youth will be included in the strategic planning sessions and implementation planning actions to address issues of gender and actions regarding HIV/AIDS, disability mainstreaming and environment

Promoting Public Awareness of Global Environment

Documented approaches, case studies and publications will be shared with pujehun district council, learning institutions, government ministries and development organizations.

Policy Impact

Documented reports, case studies and publications will be shared with other district council, learning institutions, government ministries and development organizations, with best practices supporting effective institution capacity development and persons with disability skill training implementation which can be adopted and replicated to affect policy and programme for persons with disability.

Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods

Food availability will be increased through increasing current crop production, in particular rice, cassava, groundnut, as well as fish production. Access to food at a household level will be increased through increased household production, particularly for female household members and the diversification of income sources through the expansion and strengthening of vegetable production and improved fish, rice, cassava, and groundnut processing and marketing. To increase current agricultural and fishing production, small-scale farmers? and fishing groups will be organized supported in their land identification and negotiations, and supplied with quality seeds, tools, fertilizers, swamp irrigation systems and fishing equipment, as well as processing and marketing facilities and equipment. In addition, they will be trained in improved and environment friendly production, processing and marketing techniques

Capacity - Building Component

LAD, capacity is required in relations to understanding and diversifying the training programme for this category of persons and also in line with environmental best practices associated to technical skill practices. A study tour may be imperative inclusive also in the further trainings of key programme staff

Inovative Financial Mechanisms

Publications widely available at district and national levels, benefiting persons with disability training institutions and communities throughout Sierra Leone who may access such documents; and the use of fora to engage policy actors and law makers like parliamentarians and related local and national authorities in the policy cohort for disability

Significant Participation of Indigenous Peoples

The project will adopt a participatory approach, aimed at building and empowering communities? ownership aiming at improving their participation, supports and to sustainably manage the project outputs and outcomes; including ) facilities and Services. This approach will also generate ownership of the project strategies, activities and results in the communities, target group and beneficiary levels thereby achieving desired results and sustainability of actions.

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Number of individuals (gender diaggregated) who have benefited* from SGP project 500

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