How do we work?

The principles of our development projects

• Supporting women supports the whole community
• Empowering women socially and economically
• Strict quality criteria
• Slow paced change
• Aim to gradual independence from external support

Women’s Bank supports women’s livelihoods through:

• Village banks savings and loans schemes
  • Locally owned savings groups on a sustainable basis
• Vocational education
  • Learning to earning through vocational education and courses
• Entrepreneurship training
  • Training, consulting and guidance to enable an entrepreneurial approach to livelihood
• Guidance in business and business literacy
  • Developing functional business literacy and numeracy
• Supporting market access
  • The knowledge and infrastructure to gain market access
• Civic skills training
• Networking
  • Locally, regionally, (inter)nationally
• Women’s Cooperatives