Sixteen (16) ladies who’re survivors of gender-based violence (GBV) will obtain grant awards with the help of the CARICOM Secretariat, the United Nations Improvement Fund (UNDP) and the Highlight Initiative.
The undertaking, titled “Upskilling GBV Survivors with Financial Empowerment and Private Improvement Expertise as A Technique of Guaranteeing That These Ladies Stay Lives Freed from Violence”, is funded by UNDP below the Regional Highlight Initiative Caribbean Programme. The Regional Programme is a part of the World Highlight Initiative, which is the European Union’s groundbreaking funding of Euros 500M to remove all types of violence towards ladies and women.
The Financial Empowerment Mission is being carried out by the CARICOM Secretariat Gender and Improvement Programme in partnership with the Nationwide Gender Affairs Directorates of Dominica, Saint Lucia and Trinidad and Tobago.
In response to Ms Ann-Marie Williams, Deputy Programme Supervisor, Gender and Improvement, CARICOM Secretariat, “the Secretariat launched into the undertaking to present survivors of GBV a second probability and a higher alternative to enhance their livelihood.”
She defined that the undertaking features a digital capacity-building workshop for 35 ladies survivors. Of this quantity, 16 who’re able to develop into entrepreneurs will probably be awarded grants by way of a enterprise incubator section, which is able to help them with sensible instruments to develop into entrepreneurs, together with creating a marketing strategy, monetary literacy and digital abilities to enhance their advertising once they open their new companies.
The digital coaching helps the socio-economic integration or reintegration of a cross-section of ladies survivors in three (3) Member States: Dominica, Saint Lucia, and Trinidad and Tobago. “The coaching course of is an empowerment technique to assist ladies strengthen their financial independence to make sustainable enterprise choices on their very own and to set them on a path in direction of residing lives freed from violence,” said Ms Williams.
The grant awards presentation types a part of the CARICOM Secretariat’s 16 Days of Activism In opposition to Gender-Primarily based Marketing campaign, noticed from 25 November to 10 December 2023 below the theme: “Unite! Make investments to Finish Violence In opposition to Ladies and Women!”
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