WOMEN’S PROGRAMS

Women are the social, moral and economic backbone of the society, forming more than half the nation’s human resources through projects that emancipate them from the cycle of marginalization, social and economic poverty. They cannot be ignored, left out, or treated as passive victims. Women and development go together and one cannot succeed without the other. Women have proven over and over again they are effective, skilled, creative and highly reliable when launching social and economic projects.

Leadership training of the network organizations will be oriented, in gender-sensitive approaches, resulting in awareness raising and programming with regards to women and development.

LDI is presently providing and will expand its HIV/AIDS support services to HIV positive woman. It provides a peer model of support.

Services

At the location where services are delivered, women and girls will receive the following:

• Advisory Services: on women’s health and reproduction; on nutritional needs

• Support Services for those with HIV/AIDS

• Support Services for All Women: counselling, practical services

• Support Services for Children: children living with HIV/AIDS and their families

Vocational Training/Skills Building

The purpose of this is to build capacity and to develop the skills of the clients.

At the beginning, due to the limited capacity of LDI, most of these training programs will be contracted to existing institutions. Skills training will be done on the job, especially for the clients who are naturally talented or already competent in an area. The first client trainees will learn skills that ensure independent income generation. Research into community needs, capacity assessment and a market survey will assist to identify appropriate courses for training that will lead to employment.

Training Program

The basic activities include:

• training, needs assessment (on going) that will be supplemented by technical assistance

• services and curriculum development

• identify high potential candidates (on going)

• identify collaborating institutions and forge working relationships (on going)

• on site training

• tuition payment

• procurement of scholastic materials and tools

CONCLUSION

Through health care, and education with on site training the women will be able to develop skills that will enable them to create a livelihood and become self sustaining members of their community.

For further information contact: info@LivelihoodDevelopmentAfrica.org