Ensemble pour elles

• Project duration: 2025

Our objective:

To improve entrepreneurial skills, profitability and job creation for women entrepreneurs in the Bukavu region (South Kivu) while promoting their social inclusion and resilience in a challenging context.

Our actions:

• Support for 100 women entrepreneurs active in:
  • Basic food trade
  • Agri-processing
  • Crafts
  • Transport
  • Local services
• Training in entrepreneurship, administration, finance, HR management and digital marketing
• Organisational diagnostics incorporating gender analysis
• Awareness-raising on the legal framework, the environment, gender and climate change
• Integration of the OIE (Environmental Integration Tool) approach to strengthen the positive ecological impact of businesses
• Creation of a Safe Space in Bukavu including:
  • A training area
  • A psychosocial support space
  • A childcare centre
  • Emergency and comfort equipment
• Construction of the ‘Pour Elles’ house with our local partner, the Guichet Économie Locale du Sud-Kivu (South Kivu Local Economy Office)
• Establishment of mobile training teams, mainly composed of women
• Organisation of discussion forums and awareness-raising activities on:
  • Gender stereotypes
  • The fight against gender-based violence
  • Positive masculinity
  • Social norms and women's rights