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Planned:100 women

receive training on VCD

100 women receive grants and form-

10 value chains10 trained

trainers on VCD

Implemented:105 women

received training, 102 of them

received grants and formed-

12 value chains14 trained trainers

on VCD

THE PROJECT IN NUMBERS

Planned: 10 Trainers on Social

Cohesion200 women trained

on Social cohesion10 Women Social

Cohesion Groups (WSCGs) do-

10 QIPs

Implemented:Not done yet; planned

second week of MarchNot done yet; planned

mid March till mid-April 12 social cohesion groups

formed12 “Planned” QIPs;

implementation planned from mid-March to mid-April

THE PROJECT IN NUMBERS

2 Poultry raising2 Bee Keeping1 Dairy products5 trading in

vegetables, grocery and food products

1 trading in women’s accessories

1 trading in tools and supplies

TYPES OF VALUE CHAINS

Children &youth:• Sports• Cleaning campaigns• Tree plantation• Drawing and color

festivals• Child literature• School maintenance

Women• Cooking &

nutrition• Health awareness• Vocational

training• Self expression• Family gatherings

TYPES OF ACTIVITIES IN PLANNED QIPS

• Increased income

• Response to basic needs of the family (Rented a new house, food, clothes, education.. etc.)

INITIAL RESULTS

• Learning to be wise with spending and do some savings (now we can do a lot with 25000 IQD)

• Bookkeeping in all value chains

INITIAL RESULTS

• Improved relationships between group members across their diversities (exchange of home visits, mutual acceptance, feeling welcomed, expressing appreciation)

INITIAL RESULTS

INITIAL RESULTS• Improved relationships

between women from different value chains (exchange of visits, purchasing from each other, willing to sell their products at each others’ outlets).

• Improved group members’ relationships with neighbors (they are now our clients) (We ask our clients before we add a new product)

• Increased confidence (we now have something in our name)

• Voice and leadership opportunities (for group leaders)

INITIAL RESULTS

INITIAL RESULTS• Ambitions to grow and have assets (we want to grow our business and buy assets ) (a cow, a machine, a deep freezer .. Etc.)

•Drawing attention to expiry dates

INITIAL RESULTS

• Some value chains needed to split while keeping good relationships

• Some value chains needed to redesign their group enterprise due to crisis

CHALLENGES

• In some value chains men (husbands) were dominating and wanted to take over the project

• In some value chains women recruited a person to sell in the shop (cultural challenge)

CHALLENGES

• Lost enterprise; added vocational skills activities for members to move forward; connecting them with the market

• Corrective action to reform project

• Preventive actions including technical training before start-up

• Involving community natural leaders in mediating potential conflict among group members

MEETING CHALLENGES

• Encouraged women to meet regularly in the shop to discuss topics of mutual interest in addition to the project

• Encouraged women to produce home made products to sell in their own shops to get weekly income instead of waiting

MEETING CHALLENGES (2)

• To increase women mobility we needed to connect them with MoDM to have an IDP card, and permission at the check point

• Sending some money to their families & older children at university back home (Tikrit, Salah El Din) since not have all needs met

SECONDARY IMPACT

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