WOMEN BUSINESS HUB -ADVOCACY ALLIANCE CONSORTIUM

  women and girls are still more severely affected by poverty, hunger and disease. When food is scarce, female family members often get the smallest portions. On the labour market, women are literally paid starvation wages. Mothers also suffer most from lack of medical care and balanced diets. The responsibility for the survival of their children commonly demands additional sacrifices from them

Women Small Traders (street vendors) are guided by Women Business Hub on how to build their investment through effective learning and understanding the importance of saving with purpose. Financial Literacy is helping the women to appreciate the importance of books and record keeping. moving from survival trade to investment oriented enterprise development.  #development   #business   #learning   #investment

  Regenerative agriculture describes a broad set of food production methods with two clear and complementary outcomes: the production of high-quality food and the improvement of the surrounding natural ecosystem. Regenerative agriculture recognizes that farms are part of a larger ecosystem, and that agricultural activities must not just make withdrawals from this larger system, but also pay into it. However, Small holder farmers, who are women and youth face many challenges land being the main one. This means food security will be a major challenge if the energetic labor force is not innovatively engaged in farming. This challenge can be effectively addressed by vertical bag farms that need limited space to set and operate. These bags can be placed within the homestead at the balcony and can be irrigated easily with less amount of water. Vertical bag farming is a high-yielding food security technology that utilizes the vertical space to maximize on land and incr...

  Ensuring that no one is left behind – Women Business Hub is working closely with indigent women small traders (street vendors) to train with in financial literacy and investment to foster economic growth, prosperity, and sustainability of everyone starting at the household level.

 Agriculture is at the center of the 2030 Agenda. It connects issues of poverty, sustainability, food security and gender equality. Poverty is disproportionately concentrated in rural areas. Rural women play an essential role in ensuring household food security and nutrition, through cultivation of home gardens, as wage workers and through food preparation. providing appropriate opportunities for trade will leverage Rural women and youth from income poverty  

Women Business Hub Self-reliance Programme is engaging indigent women and youth to interrogate their social and economic abilities as individuals, a household or a community so that they could work towards meeting their essential needs (including protection, food, water, shelter, personal safety, health and education) in a sustainable manner and with dignity. 

Women small traders as Food Entrepreneurs play very important role in the food and nutrition security among the urban dwellers of Kisumu City. However, Social-economic and political deprivations, gender inequalities, and environmental precariousness undermine their economic viability and sustainability of their entrepreneurship. Women Small traders are stuck in survival entrepreneurship. Through Strategic Partnerships, Women Business Hub is developing a tailor made course on “Starting and Growing My Business” for women and youth working towards Self-Reliance  

  Majority of Women and Youth in Western Kenya are faced with socio-economic challenges similar to those being experienced by other communities in the rest of Kenya. Some of these challenges include increased household poverty and high unemployment rates. Unemployment has become an issue that also affects graduates who are equipped with the education and knowledge that was considered appropriate for formal labour markets in the past. This is made evident by the increasing statistics of the relatively well educated individuals practicing Survivalist Entrepreneurship in the absence of formal employment in Kenya as a whole. Women Business Hub has designed tailor made capacity building and mentorships on How to Start and Growing my Business for Self Reliance.

  Digital Technology is now providing women and youth small business owners with alternatives in their day-to-day management of their businesses.   small business owners are not tied at their Business premises in order to do their work and stay in the loop waiting for customers. However, through their mobile phones, they are reaching their customers and delivering goods and products at the door steps. ICT is also helping them build strong systems for record keeping, financial literacy and banking.    

Many young people in Western Kenya region are putting their life skills into use to help them fend for their families. However, economy is dwindling thus putting them in much desperate situation of selling their artifacts at a throw away price. According to the UN report on SDG 1 - No Poverty; Globally, the number of people living in extreme poverty declined from 36% in 1990 to 10% in 2015. But the pace of change is decelerating and the COVID-19 crisis risks reversing decades of progress in the fight against poverty. Poor Women and youth are most at risk during – and in the aftermath – of the pandemic, not only as a health crisis but as a devastating social and economic crisis over the months and years to come. Women Business Hub is constantly working with indigent Women and Youth to continuously apply creative thinking, use digital technology as a market strategy to help their ideas and businesses to stay alive.