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The project implemented interventions for building capacity for resilience in agriculture and animal husbandry, linking women to crucial legal and financial services, promoting self-confidence and self-esteem and reducing the gap between men and women. The project demonstrates that contributing to rural women’s capacity to perform productive economic activities, including those that are traditionally considered masculine, is an empowering approach per se, because this does not only directly build capacity for women, but also impacts attitudes and perception of women in the world of work.
Main lessons learned:
(i) Use of local language to deliver capacity building packages enhances participation, comprehension and application of lessons learnt by most vulnerable women with low literacy levels;
(ii) Supporting women to access civil registration rights is a pre- requisite for their empowerment, as it opens the doors for their eligibility to access crucial services for their empowerment, such as financial services as loans, services for social protection, inheritance and even voting rights;
(Iii) Targeting men on Gender Equality and WEE activities is a high potential intervention to enhance socio-cultural transformation of men from being obstacles into being supportive agents that accept and advocate for innovation of social practices, norms and belief for gender equality. The MTE revealed that men are the main obstacle to women’s full realization in their families and communities;
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