Economic Empowerment and Innovation

Economic Empowerment

Definition

Economic Empowerment Program provides a structured platform for empowering individuals and communities with the ability to attain financial independence, improve their livelihoods, and participate in economic decision-making, to ensure that the most marginalized groups of women, youth, and low-income populations break various economic barriers, build sustainable businesses, and improve their livelihoods.

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Theory of Change

Access to financial resources, skills training, and economic opportunities, for individuals and communities, provides sustainable incomes, creates financial resilience, and generates growth in an economy, because it is through economic empowerment that one would find self-sufficiency, the rise of entrepreneurship, and avenues toward long-term prosperity.

Target Groups

Social Entrepreneurs
Under/Postgraduates
People with Disabilities
Post Conflict Survivors
Local Markets
Human Capital

Interventions

vocational training
Entrepreneurship support
Access to finance
Innovation and sustainable solutions
Value chains and markets development
Gender and social economic inclusion to enhance self-sufficiency, reduce poverty, and encourage inclusive economic growth