Good Practice
Women's entrepreneurship development and economic empowerment (Irish Aid/PROPEL) Global Component - Final Evaluation
Good Practice Description
Group of vegetable growers closely knit together across tribal boundaries through being HIV positive and supporting each other to take retro-virals on time and against stigmatisation; Group members have individual plots and also market their vegetables occasionally individually; Involvement private sector: Serena Hotel in Amboseli Park who buys and NGO owning trading company; Training and accompanying producers from harvest to delivery of vegetables (timing, packaging, transport, sourcing of not produced type of vegetables, quality assurance etc.); Difficulty: private sector players in the value chain with different knowledge.
Mentoring is needed to help newly trained women entrepreneurs to apply their knowledge in practice. Follow-up is necessary to avoid lapsing which requires reporting to the expert leading the mentorship programme. Mentoring has been started by WED-EE as a pilot test in Kenya to see the effect of a close follow-up. The randomised evaluation will do the research on this effect.
Group of vegetable growers closely knit together across tribal boundaries through being HIV positive and supporting each other to take retro-virals on time and against stigmatisation; Group members have individual plots and also market their vegetables occasionally individually; Involvement private sector: Serena Hotel in Amboseli Park who buys and NGO owning trading company; Training and accompanying producers from harvest to delivery of vegetables (timing, packaging, transport, sourcing of not produced type of vegetables, quality assurance etc.); Difficulty: private sector players in the value chain with different knowledge.
Mentoring is needed to help newly trained women entrepreneurs to apply their knowledge in practice. Follow-up is necessary to avoid lapsing which requires reporting to the expert leading the mentorship programme. Mentoring has been started by WED-EE as a pilot test in Kenya to see the effect of a close follow-up. The randomised evaluation will do the research on this effect.