Income-generating activities in Manica and Sofala

Region:

Manica/ Sofala in central Mozambique.

Partner:

Kubatsirana

Funded by:

Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

Period:

7/2022 - 4/2025

What it is about:

Income-generating activities for disadvantaged women in rural areas of Central Mozambique.

On average, 7 people live in a household. At the start of the project, the households had an estimated monthly income of the equivalent of 19 euros and thus lived far below the absolute poverty line. 89% of the working population is engaged in agriculture, but there is hardly any (further) processing of the products, and there is a lack of knowledge and skills as well as the means to generate more income.

These are our measures:

Support for educational institutions, women organise themselves and learn to work, for example, as seamstresses or in agricultural farming. Together with a savings association, micro-credits are created for business start-ups. This enables them to start their own small businesses.

The project uses the principle of associations (clubs) for self-help and organisation, which is well known in the region. The women supported or the associations to be founded are to serve as role models. Through microcredit cooperatives, small financing institutions are to be created in the project areas so that other inhabitants of the three project districts will benefit.

This is how many people we reach

directly: 4,050 people, 53.5% of whom are women

indirectly: 820,000 inhabitants of the three project districts