Empowering NWC - Empowering Nyamirambo Women’s Center

Description

The purpose of the action is the strategic empowerment of Nyamirambo Women’s Center (NWC) to become self-sustainable in long-term and a factor of influence in its local community and in Rwandan society in general. The specific objectives of this Project are:
  1. to build the capacity of NWC;
  2. to achieve economic empowerment and the poverty-reduction among NWC’s membership and local population;
  3. to secure long-term sustainability of NWC;
  4.  to increase the visibility and influence of NWC;
  5. to increase the local community’s awareness on gender-based violence, women’s and children’s rights and women’s participation in the community, and to increase the social integration of particular groups of women.

Project Details

Status
finished
Project area
development cooperation
Topic
development
Timing [start date]
01/01/2009
Timing [status]
definitive
Project range
international
Countries
Rwanda
Financed by
Delegation of EU to Rwanda, Peace Institute - Institute for Contemporary Social and Political Studies
Partner organisations
Nyamirambo Women's CentreRwanda Association of University Women (RAUW)New Dawn Associates (NDA)