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Strengthening Equality of Farmer Network Project (SEC-NET) The overall project goal is Farmers organisation’s capacity built and enhanced livelihood of family farmers in Arusha Region by 2022.Project aims at improving incomes of family farmers through enhanced capacity to advocate for their issues and ensure inclusion of women & youth participation in agricultural value chains by 2022.The expected results are; strengthened organisational capacity to offer effective services to small scale farmers with special focus on women and young members; Strengthened primary networks organisational and members capacity in engaging to gender responsive interventions; Strengthened capacity to engage with duty bearers for gender inclusive frameworks, legislation, policies concerning members welfare; Improved capacity of members with special emphasis on women and young members to engaging in quality, & quantity production of agricultural produce and agribusiness practices; Improved capacity of members to adapt with climate change and enhance environmental sustainability; Improved members’ working capital for agri-business and agriculture production; Reduced production and agri-business risk for women, young people and men; Increased participation of women and young people in leadership and decision making structures / processes; and reduced women and young people socio-cultural injustices. The organisation has recruited 58 (37 F & 21 M) new members and one local network (Longido ward ) is in the process of being formalized as new group . The organisation organised for a Tree planting campaign in Monduli , one of the driest district in the region where 124 members Participated. Over 46849 trees were planted. The organisation has facilitated formation of 11 VICOBA (VSLA) groups who have already been trained on the methodology. So far the groups have mobilized savings of Tshs. 12,056,500 and given out loans amounting to Tshs. 4,325,000. The organisation facilitated some of its members to participate in an Agribusiness Expo as a result twelve (12) beekeeping groups were linked with a reliable market during the event. The groups are now selling 1 kg of honey at Tshs 10,000 after value addition compared to initial farmgate price of Tshs 6000 per kg. The organisation has been supporting farmers to adopt appropriate SALM practices and more so green technologies as a way to mitigate against climate change effects and to support their farming activities . As a result 16 farmers are now using biogas in their households as fuel, 3 households are using wind energy for lighting, 4 farmers using solar powered poultry incubators and 11 farmers using solar powered irrigation pumps.
Economic and social development of marginalised women and girls The project is focused on promoting the financial inclusion through secured cooperative micro-finance services and will be implemented by two local partners in Northern and Southern provinces in Sri Lanka. Both organisations are working towards providing the credit and saving facilities targeting the poor women in the particular locations. Thus, the project aims to strengthen the self-banking and primary women branches in promoting the women and youth empowerment, improve the knowledge on the cooperative concept and making a gender sensitive society within the two organisations and as well as within the targeted communities. At the end of five years, it is expected to increase the access to fair financial resources for the marginalized rural women and have increased women led groups and sustainable women led enterprises in cooperative approach. This project has proposed as a consortium project including the organisation ‘Sri Lanka Women Development Services Cooperative Society Limited’ – Women Coop and SMDF. Women Coop hasn’t shown up their interest to submit the project proposal to We Effect till end of July 2018. Anyhow, SMDF has submitted their proposal at the mid of August 2018, finally the project document of SMDF has been finalized in the mid of September. As per the project document SMDF has been started their project implementation from latter part of September. The project is focusing to implement their strategic plan with the objectives of 1. strengthening self bank societies. 2. improve staff efficiency and productivity 3. strengthening the board of the organisation 4. Empower women and youth 5. Developing gender sensitive society in SMDF 6. Developing cooperative based future leadership towards sustainability.
Promoting Gender Inclusivity in Financial Services (GIFS -Project) To empower women and young people with equal opportunities and increased rights of access to land and other productive resources through financial services. Increase uptake of micro insurance products and services among the 492 SACCO by establishing linkages and partnerships for insurance. Increased membership from 492 to 511, out of which 39 SACCO have signed new micro insurance policies for their members.
Country project care economy Women, young people and empowered girls (political subjects) promote the recognition and contribution of caring and self-care work to the economy and the web of life, positioning the social response of care in public policies and everyday life in the social imaginary, in the symbolic and in the political agenda at national and community level. The conceptual framework on Care Economy has included in the agenda of the World March for Women, and studies and analysis on Care Economy has been carried out in the partner organisations.
Strengthening Leadership and Exercise of Women's Economic Rights Support the process of leadership strengthening, positioning and local capacity development of women, from the perspective of ecological production, for their empowerment. Support women leaders promoting equity in advocacy processes, to generate public policies, for the benefit of gender equality at the local level. Support ecological productive enterprises led by women, for the generation of income through the commercialization of their products. A new training curriculum for 30 women of six agro-ecological associations has been implemented.
Core Support for ARIJ strategy "ARIJ will not be core supported during the bridging year 2018. A new assessment will be done in 2019.‎ 
The project aims at women’s increased resilience through access to land, financial and ‎production resources. The project will improve women’s capacities and opportunities to afford a ‎decent work.  Expected results:‎
‎ • Strengthened organisational capacity of ARIJ through upgrading their M&E systems, bylaws ‎
‎• Good governance practices enhanced (for cooperatives and CBO) through model of ‎applying good governance within coops is promoted ‎
‎• Improving relevance and feasibility of cooperative services ‎
‎• Improved service delivery where coops/CBO provide relevant and feasible services to their ‎members and communities.‎
• Enhanced institutional framework through advocating the needs of the Palestinian coops ‎
‎• Women participate in decision-making and income generating initiatives through‎
increasing women’s knowledge of practices to overcome restrictions on pursuing commercial or ‎economic activities
• Promoting and advocating for women’s rights and gender equality through advocacy campaign." The project has targeted good governance by training 100 members from targeted coops (90 women and 10 men) on designing and conducting advocacy campaigns. In addition, 10 women members in Anabta Cooperative for Consuming were trained in quality control in making and preserving “makdous”, which is a product they already produce and sell at a rate of 400kgs every week. The training was to ensure a consistent quality along every step of the production. 180 members participated in 6 exchange visits between coops and selected coops participated in 4 national expos to market their products and network with relevant stakeholders and other coops. 230 coop members and citizens in general engaged in drama sketches that handled the importance of collective decision and policy-making at coops. Furthermore, the project supported 5 coops in tools and equipment that improve services or products already provided/ delivered/ produced by the coops and it was clear from the beginning how they will positively contribute to the value chain and increase coop members’ satisfaction and quality of services and products.
Enabling Policy Environment for women and young people (PEPE) To support strengthening of ICA institutional capacity through the core suppport intiative to contribute to the implementation of organization strategic plan. A well functioning organization able to deliver on its mandate within Africa region Progress results will be reported by the end of the year.
Strengthening Farmers' Capacities to Address Gender Inequality Federate and strengthen farmers’ cooperatives working towards eradication of poverty and promotion of environmental sustainability and gender equality in small farming communities. Sustained capacity building support to farmer organisations in the previous programme and initialized mobilisation in expansion areas, continuing strengthening of federations.
Strengthening the organisation of Pech communities Promotion of economic empowerment, productive capacity and sustainable and inclusive human development for women in 7 Pech indigenous communities and 7 mestizo communities of the Tawahka Asangni biological reserve in Honduras. 150 indigenous and mestiza women in the communities near the buffer zone to the Ecological Reserve Asangni Tawahka have been trained on how to improve their livelihoods in harmony with the care of the natural resources, on women´s rights and indigenous cultural rights.
Inclusive Cocoa Production and Agribusiness (ICOPA) Strengthen governance and leadership capacity of Cocoa Producer cooperatives into inclusive and responsive in service delivery to their members- particularly to women and young people The Cooperative Union with its 15 primaries is engaged in commercial production of cocoa for improved market access, gender equality interventions, financial inclusion and microinsurance. The organisation has established its own Cocoa mother garden to ensure provision of clean planting to its members cheaply. To date, 250 women have accessed financial loans to support Women in Business (WIB) - a deliberate move of promoting women and youth in cocoa agribusiness to foster active inclusive gender participation in cooperative marketing of cocoa.
Rural housing and self-development Empowerment of peasant and rural organisations to defend their right to housing. Two housing cooperatives made up of farmers and Garifuna communities in the north of Honduras have been trained to defend their right to adequate housing, using the idea of recovery of methods of building with ecological and alternative materiales, and have engaged in advocacy to get the State to assign resources for the building of houses.
Women Empowerment Kosovo To be developed during first half of 2018. In order to expand its activities in Kosovo, We Effect has announced a "Call for Expression of Interest for Partnership with We Effect" in Kosovo. More than 40 organisations expressed their interest. Following the main Criteria of Choice of Partner of We Effect, 4 organisations were short-listed. The organisational capacities of the short-listed candidates were assessed through the use of the newly adopted Capacity Assessment Format. Unfortunately, 3 of the short-listed candidates did not satisfy the preconditions for partnership with We Effect, listed in the Capacity Assessment Format. At this stage, We Effect Europe team is finalizing the assessment of the fourth candidate, aiming at establishing a new partnership by the end of 2018.
Exercising citizenship of women and young people Integral strengthening of rural women and youth for the defense and exercise of their human rights that contribute to improvements in the quality of life in a safe and sustainable environment. 1: Empowered rural women and youth increase their capacity for collective action by exercising full citizenship; 2: CMR is consolidated as a national reference in the development processes of rural women; 3: organised rural women are referents for agroecological practices, productive and food diversification, improving income and the nutrition of their families; 4: Dissemination and communication actions for the promotion and defense of the rights of rural women. Due to the difficult context, CMR reduced their target for local fund raising. The integration of young men into the organisation has started with training on women´s rights, amongst other topics. Members have also been trained on climate change and mitigation, as well as agro-industry.
Addressing Cotton Farmers Needs CAZ works to address the needs of  cotton farmers in Zambia. The goal is to contribute to rural poverty alleviation by increasing the incomes and improve the livelihoods of cotton farmers with special emphasis on the key role women play in this endeavour. Expected outcome results include a) Self-financing and independent cotton farmers, b) A farmer owned/ controlled ginning enterprise established and operationalised, c) Improved cotton production and productivity, d) Strengthened organisational capacity of CAZ, e) Improved/ increased value addition within the cotton value chain, and f) Improved cotton development policies. The overall target group is 255 000 cotton producers in Zambia and the direct target group is not less than 26 000 members (16,990 men and 8,766 women) of CAZ. Progress results will be reported by the end of the year.
Peasant welfare with equal rights Political advocacy for rural development with a legal approach. Development of innovative and sustainable peasant agriculture, strengthening with equality achieving the active participation of women before public authorities to manage a fair peasant agriculture. Five agro-ecological enterprises have started accessing markets, out which two are exclusively made up of women.
School of rural leadership for advancement of gender equality Training and strengthening the leadership of rural women and multisectoral articulation for the fulfillment of their human rights. The proposal aims to "Empower women affiliated with AMSATI, through training processes that lead to their participation and involvement in the construction and development of legal instruments and local conditions to guarantee and protect the rights of rural women." Added value: AMSATI states in its objective that the leadership of rural women is part of a broader development experience that identifies it with empowerment through training for action and political advocacy, and through improving the economic conditions of women who support their organised participation. 575 new women leaders of 57 committees in 8 counties of the country are the result of the training processes to increment the membership of AMSATI.
Gender Balance, Social Justice and Women Empowerment Muleide promotes social and economic empowerment of women in Mozambique. It seeks to achieve this through strengthening the capacities of civil society partner organisations to implement gender mainstreaming. Progress results will be reported by the end of the year.
Protection and Defence Honduras The objective of the project is to provide legal assistance and shelter to human rights activists or citizens of Honduras who due to having expressed their rights risk being subject to illegal imprisonment or acts of violence. Project ended 2017.
Justice and autonomy of the Lenca indigenous territories Strengthen the articulation and leadership of COPINH in the defense of the right to land, territory, autonomy and rights of the Lenca indigenous people of Honduras. About 40 adult women and 50 young women, all indigenous, have been trained on their rights related to the ILO Convention 169 and have multiplied their knowledge to another 2150 people.
Empowerment of women and young peasants Empowerment of women and young peasants to exercise their right to live a life without violence, their economic autonomy and their political participation in the vindication of their trade union agenda. 30 adult women and 30 young women members have been trained on their rights and have achieved resources for starting up small enterprises through rural credit and savings groups.
Inclusive Access to Adequate Housing (SIAAH) To increase access to adequate housing by women, men and young people through housing . Expected results; Organizational development, Cooperative housing development in urban slum areas, Financial Inclusion promoted, Women and young people rights in land and housing issues promoted Developed a 5-year strategic plan to guide the organisation. Developed both gender and environmental policies. 3 staff trained on adequate housing and mobilisation of housing cooperatives. Registered housing cooperatives increased from three to five. 30 houses in the affiliates housing cooperative improved on using appropriate building technologies.
Women Financial Inclusion through Saving and Credit Cooperatives The project aims at women’s increased resilience through access to land, financial and ‎production resources. Progress results will be reported by the end of the year.
Operational Plan for implementation of SACAU's Strategic Framework The Programme aims “to be the main voice of farmers’ on regional, continental and global matters and to promote and ensure strong and effective farmers’/ producers’ organisations in all countries in Southern Africa”. The Programme is under pinned by three pillars namely: Pillar 1: Policy advocacy on common matters of interest to farmers in southern Africa; Pillar 2: Strengthening of farmers’ organisations, and Pillar 3 Provision of agriculture-related information. The strategic goals are a) to promote the creation of an enabling environment that allows farmers and other players in the agricultural value chain to maintain and maximise their productive potential, b) to support the establishment and development of strong, credible and sustainable Farmers’ Organisations that provide effective and efficient support services to farmers and other stakeholders and c) To support strategic decision making by FO’s, and to provide general information to other stakeholders. The target group of the programme is national farmers organisations in the Southern African region. A new Strategic plan will be developed in 2018. Progress results will be reported by the end of the year.
Agriculture and Nutrition Project in Niassa (AGRIN) This projects aims to promote integration of nutrition in agricultural activities in Niassa province of Mozambique Progress results will be reported by the end of the year.
Farmer organisations for sustainable agriculture and equal rights The project aims at improved income and equal access to land and resources for landless, smallholder farmers, especially women and ethnic communities in Southern Shan State. The objective will be achieved through  the main 5 expected results: 1- sustainable and climate-resilient agricultural production; 2- improved access to gender sensitive and inclusive financial services; 3- promoted women entrepreneurship; 4- strengthened farmers' organisation; 5- enabling policy environemnt for farmers, especially women. 3 training on gender equality for 87 participants, 30 of whom are women; 3 training on women leadership for 90 villagers (31 women); 3 training on how to form VSLA for 87 trainees (36 women); 3 technical trainings on testing soil quality and instructions on how to improve soil quality for 93 participants (28 women).
Promoting Empowerment of the Youth This project aims at enhancing youth participation among partners in Tanzania. The project aims at building capacities of local youth groups  who will actively participate in developemt programmes under adequate housing and rural development. It is expected that there will be an increase of proportion of youth participating in development programmes supported by We Effect in Tanzania. This project was not initiated after a follow-up assessment indicated that due to leadership and other critical concerns of the partner organisation, it could not be included in the framework for 2017-2021.
EU own contribution Sri Lanka - Advancement of the rights and living conditions of marginalized and war-affected communities The project is implemented in 6 Divisional Secretariat Divisions in Anuradhapura and Batticaloa districts. The co-applicant of the project are Rajarata Praja Kendraya (RPK), implementing the project in Anuradhapura District, and Kaviya Self Development Women Centre implementing the project in Batticaloa district. The project aims to contribute to inclusive and sustainable socio economic development of marginalized and war affected communities in North Central and Eastern Sri Lanka. This will be achieved through the implementation of an inclusive and sustainable cooperative approach focusing on socio-economic development of targeted communities with improved living conditions of 80% of 1,744 women and 414 girls, 392 men and 403 boys through reduction of their poverty levels. Empowerment of communities in cooperative structure with increased livelihood opportunities and access to services and resources will contribute towards poverty reduction. Recognition of women will increase through empowerment of women in socio-economic aspects, and sensitization of the men and youths to work towards reduction of incidences of violence among these communities. The development of coops and empowerment of the target groups is expected to have an extended outreach on final beneficiaries, namely, 11,470 community members (6,167 women and 5,303 men) in 26 villages. The Action will promote coops as independent actors and contributors for inclusive and sustainable socio-economic development in the two provinces. In Anuradhapura and Batticaloa, both implementing partners have achieved results in forming cooperatives in the target locations: seven cooperatives in Anuradhapura district and five cooperatives in Batticaloa district. The membership of the cooperatives district-wise, up to now recorded 295 (women 244 and men 51) in Anuradhapura district and 361 (women 324 and men 37) in Batticaloa district. The project launching programs were conducted at each district level with the participation of We Effect regional office delegates, country office staff and government stakeholders. Moreover, aligning with the project launches, first steering committee meeting has taken place. Savings started at the cooperative level (savings amounts to USD 657 in Batticaloa and USD 2116 in Anuradhapura). Further, the training programs were conducted on different disciplines such as cooperative values and principles, thrift and credit and awareness sessions on environmental issues and preparation of disaster mitigation plans.