WOMEN BUSINESS HUB -ADVOCACY ALLIANCE CONSORTIUM

Women Business Hub is working together with Pendeza Weaving Project to promote Craft and entrepreneurship to address challenges encountered by women and youth, (especially those living in slums and rural areas) such as poverty, low literacy levels and unemployment. Local initiatives and innovations driven by women and youth to empower them can become the real game changer in a society where unemployment is sky rocketing. Art and craft-making as a leisure-based activity yields numerous benefits for participants, including improved wellbeing, an enhanced sense of self and self-efficacy and economical gains. Community based arts and crafts projects in rural areas empower women and youth in four ways. These projects serve as a means for economic empowerment, enhancing a sense of community, establishing networks of support and are also therapeutic for women suffering challenges of mental health. The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 5 seeks to achieve gender equality and empo...

  Pillar 4 :  Gender Equality and Human Rights. https://twitter.com/WomenLimited Women Business Hub is working together with Female and Male youth on community development planning and transformation to offer ways the young generation can change the world through innovative projects and activities. Community development happens when people take action to solve common problems affecting the places they live, work and play every day. Young people are an important stakeholder group for achieving inclusive development. Comparable to the experiences of women, people with disabilities, the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community, and those suffering from extreme poverty, youth have historically been excluded from policy and program decisions and Women Business Hub is setting a platform for youths to change this by themselves. Women Business Hub is stepping in to engage young people both male and female as community organizers. Through training and empowerment, they...

  Women Business Hub in collaboration with Pendeza Weaving Project is promoting Hand Spinning and Handloom weaving - Textile Artisan Cottage and small industries to provide employment to skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled women and youth in western Kenya region. Handloom weaving and spinning provides alternative job opportunities. Women Business Hub and Pendeza Weaving Project are encouraging cotton farmers to strengthen cotton value chain by establishing Cottage and small scale industries in rural area by some local people. Cottage and small scale industries are simple and are operated with limited capital but also increases/upgrades living standard people to earn sufficient amount that can sustain their life and fulfillment of their needs. The rate of unemployment is increasing day by day. To control unemployment, it is necessary that rural communities increase the small scale industries because these are labor-intensive. Rural Women farmers can easily work in small scale indu...

  Women Business Hub is working with the school going female youths through Career Mentorship and Mental Health Programs to help the young girls learn  how their academic performance are highly connected with their career choices.     Skills like communication, teamwork, critical thinking, and flexibility have always been important for work and life. But they will be even more crucial for future generations. Preparing today’s young women for tomorrow’s World is a task that cannot only be handled by parents and teachers alone. The digital age is rapidly changing our world and young people need the right mix of skills to thrive. Although academic skills remain important, they are not sufficient to foster thoughtful, productive, and engaged citizens. Young people especially the female adolescents need to develop a greater breadth of skills to evaluate and apply knowledge in ways that meet the new demands of our changing socio-economic landscape of our patriarchal...

  Gender equality for development is a core theme of Women Business Hub work and cuts across all thematic areas. Our interventions focus on “Gender Equality and Development” which is geared to improve (1) women and girls’ human capital, (2) Women and girls’ economic productivity, (3) Women and girls access to finance, and (4) inclusive empowerment. Gender gaps in human capital are well-documented, but there is little evidence on how best to close those gaps. Women’s access to economic opportunities is undermined by their lower access to production inputs. Female farmers have less access to information, as agricultural extension networks are dominated by men.   Women Business Hub is promoting Entrepreneurship and SMEs development as the organization contribution towards addressing gender gaps in Human Capital. Throughout Sub-Saharan Africa, women are disproportionately limited in their land ownership and transfer rights. That is why at Women Business Hub, Women and youth la...

  Pillar 1 : Women and Youth Land Rights and Governance https://twitter.com/WomenLimited The emergence of women entrepreneurs and their contribution to the national economy is quite visible in most parts of rural areas of western Kenya region. While rural women entrepreneurs have demonstrated their potential, the fact remains that they are capable of contributing much more than what they already are. Rural Women entrepreneurs create new jobs for themselves and others. They also provide their respective communities with different solutions to management, organization development and business problems as well as to the exploitation of entrepreneurial opportunities. Rural women’s participation in agro-based activities is much more than what statistics reveal. This is mainly due to the fact that most of the work done by the women at farm and home is disguised as daily chores. Digital Technology and easy availability of labour will provide more time to energetic young women to engage ...

  In our Pillar 2 : Women and Youth Agro-enterprises and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) development for employability and Self-reliance.  https://twitter.com/womenlimited Women's role in decision-making in family affairs, community and local institutions is necessary for increased political representation and sustained political involvement of women in every development matter. Giving women a voice in family matters, community and access to leadership positions at the grass root level is the first step, which is then followed by supporting women at the ward, sub county, county and National levels.     Women are more likely to participate in both private and public decision-making if they have greater knowledge, economic assets and income-earning capacity which in turn increase their self-esteem and confidence. Economic empowerment means access to productive assets, land, water, markets, finances and technologies.   Improved well-being for rural women requir...

  Investing in women entrepreneurs is good for business and essential for Kenya economic growth. Small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are a key driver of economic growth, and women-owned enterprises account for approximately 80% of all SMEs in emerging markets in western Kenya region.   Women are the fastest-growing market segment in the Lake region, they start businesses at a higher rate than men.   In developing economies like Lake Victoria region, SMEs are increasingly important, as they contribute to nearly half of the labor force.