Women's Empowerment
ODID has always put a focus on women and girls to overcome inequity due to sexism, gender bias and social barriers they face.Our strategic objectives are to: 1. Promote women’s economic empowerment. 2. Enhancing women’s voice in decision making,leadership and peace building. 3. Ending violence against women and girls. 4. Carry out projects that promotes social welfare andenvironmental concern. 5. Promoting women’s skills for sustainability. 6. Promoting gender equality and the empowerment ofwomen as effective ways to combat poverty, hunger, and disease and to stimulate development that is truly sustainable. We put aparticular focus on rural communities as they have often been neglected by larger multinational organizations.=
Our Story
Group: In 2016, ODID successfully piloted a small-vendor loan program during the town’s annual ecotourism festival. In addition, a seed project has successfully supported women with growing vegetable gardens. ODID is developing an Empowerment Women’s group with the objective to promote gender equality and enable these women to benefit out of mutual help, solidarity, and joint responsibility towards financial independence and self-improvement. To that end, ODID will support the implementation of the tested micro-financing small vendor project and vegetable growing. All the women in the North hub will be trained on women issues by AFASDA and AFLIDEPA will provide skill-building trainings on economic opportunities in mutual funds,
cattle distribution, and agriculture.
