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Institutional support to Roma Union in Albania The project aims to strengthen AmaroDrom and provide business-oriented services and advocacy aimed at social inclusion of Roma communities and their economic empowerment. Expected results are - Improved capacity of AmaroDrom organisation to lobby and advocate on local, national and regional level; - AmaroDrom’s capacity in business development and project management are enhanced;  - Project Management skills are enhanced; - Amarodrom is recognised as active promotor of participatory community development; - Awareness is raised on business opportunities and income generation from agriculture activities; - Business planning and management skills among target groups improved; - Capacity building programme in innovative agriculture crops and technologies implemented; - Capacity and skills of participating communities in off-farm business opportunities are improved; - Improved access to civic rights and economic opportunities for Roma and other minorities; - Lobbying, advocacy and networking at the national level enhanced. "• Amarodrom is strengthening the networking between the Roma and Egyptian organisations in Albania. In the moment, more than 18 organisations are part of the network, leaded by Amarodrom. Member organisations have continuous capacity building for lobby and advocacy. As a result of these activities, 2 initiatives were undertaken from the network to lobby for justice and to improve socio-economic situation of Roma families. 
• Amarodrom increased the number of Roma farmers who cultivate their land, instead of renting it. Roma community have increased capacity and information for financial services and support for cultivation of their land. 
• Amarodrom increased the number of members in the organisation for 2518 members, from which 50% are women. Amarodrom employees have increased their capacities for project management and monitoring. 
• 20 Young Roma are in process to complete VET course 
• 2 farmers clubs were created during 2018, from which 50% are women members.
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Agroforestry for Livelihood Empowerment Programme (ALIVE) Support sustainable use of natural resources within the Lake Victoria Basin by strengthening the capacity of local partner farmer organisations to deliver services to their members and amplify their voice. The programme creates opportunities for strong partner farmer organisations through which farmers living in poverty and who are discriminated against or marginalised, can make their voices heard and influence the development of society addressing poverty, climate change and bridging the gap between duty-bearers and rights-holders. Progress results will be reported by the end of the year.
Cooperative model of housing for mutual help Model Program of Housing Cooperatives for Mutual Aid (CVAM Program).General: Contribute to generate a form of self-managed organisation that facilitates access to an adequate habitat for Salvadoran families with limited economic resources, based on the principle of housing as a human right. Specific: Strengthen the conscious, protagonist and organised participation of the housing cooperatives for mutual aid, integrated to the social movement for the defense of the adequate habitat in the country. Contribute to generate transformations in the framework of public policies that guarantee financial, legal, institutional, organisational and access to land instruments for the sustainability of the CVAM Model in the country. 889 persons from 24 cooperatives in 8 counties now have knowledge of the cooperative housing model and are working for good harmonious co-habiting in their homes.
Promotion of agricultural value chain in Yen Bai province The project aims at economic empowerment for ethnic minority communities, especially for women in Yen Bai province through promoting value chain participation with the following key results: 1- sustainable and climate-resilient agricultural production; 2- improved access to gender sensitive and inclusive financial services. "One training workshop on value chain - access to market - financing for cooperatives; Supports 5 cooperatives with nearly 90.000 track traceability stamps for better consumption of farmers' products.
- Training course on sericulture production for farmers, which helps farmers to change their crop structure to increase income and resilience to climate change.
- Training course for cooperative support fund and people's fund in verification of business investment plans for lending. So far, 5 business plans/projects received loans for investment from the provincial support fund and 2 plans from cooperative support fund from YBPCA.
- Piloting two cases of women entrepreneurship promotion.
- Support of herbal seedlings: cinnamon and Ardisia silvestris for plantations, well-grown now.
- Advocacy: provincial People's Committee approved the fund allocation plan 2018 for the project on consolidation and development of cooperatives, collaborative groups for the period 2017 -2022, and towards 2030, in which 34 new cooperatives will be supported for establishment, new technology support to one cooperative, and additional fund of VND 500 million dong for the cooperative support Fund.
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Programme Office Zimbabwe Provide partner organisations with technical assistance and administrative support in planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation in We Effect cooperation projects in the country. Progress results will be reported by the end of the year.
Technical Assistance: AWLAH Programme To support the quality assurance of We Effect's development cooperation in the Eastern Africa region. Progress results will be reported by the end of the year.
Global Environment and Climate Advisor (based in Southern Africa) Provide We Effect with technical support on climate change Progress results will be reported by the end of the year.
Improving Codimca situations and strengthening incidence Strengthen the advocacy capacities of CODIMCA for the defense of economic, social, cultural and environmental rights and the participation of rural women in local development. 120 women farmers in CODIMCA's base groups have been trained on defending their rights, particularly the right to land and social and economic rights.
Rural housing pilot project Promote and implement the model of housing cooperatives by self-management, mutual support and collective property in the rural areas, developing an experience of the cooperative housing model. Due to the current context in Guatemala, this initiative was not started with the foreseen partner; a new potential partner has been identified.
Strengthening Districts Farmer Association in Southern Province This is a district level farmer association that represents the needs of farmers and provides a range of services aimed at improving members' farm enterprises Progress results will be reported by the end of the year.
Technical Assistance: Home & Habitat Programme Cooperativist movement with the capacity to demand the States access to urbanized land, subsidy and fair financing, making effective the human right to adequate housing of popular sectors. Steps towards a Latin American Union of Housing Cooperatives have been taken, with an advocacy agenda on access to land, financing and legal frameworks with emphasis on women´s rights in housing.
Organisational strengthening in PLANE The organisation of workers of the strengthened PLANE contributes to the social and economic autonomy of its members. This project is in partnership with and managed by CIUDADANIA. 32 women trained in the School for Design of production and care initiatives. The child care centre Centro Lagunitas with 35 children is 90% self sustainable.
Technical Assistance: LEAP Programme To support the quality assurance of We Effect's development cooperation in the Eastern Africa region. LEAP supports 22 partner organisations:
15 core partners – member-based (men, women and youth) democratic productive organisations. 
3 technical partners – support to core partners on cross-cutting issues like gender equality, leadership, organisational development, climate change, human rights, etc. 
4 strategic partners - create networks and linkages with capacity to work nationally and regionally for advocacy. 
All the partners are actively pursuing their objectives. Expected at programme level is “Empowered rural women, men and young people with equal opportunities and increased rights of access to land and other productive resources”.
Programme Office Honduras Provide partner organisations with technical assistance and administrative support in planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation in We Effect cooperation projects in the country. Administrative and technical staff, and leaders of 10 partner organisations have been trained and advised on strategy and operative processes in their projects funded and accompanied by We Effect.
Strengthening socio-productive capacities through gender equity Promote a model of agricultural production based on respect for nature, independence, women's rights, to improve their position and conditions in the communities of Bajo Lempa and the Salvadoran society. Expected results are: 40 women trained and sensitized as a result of the agro-ecological and political training, taking up important issues such as access to land, credits, jobs and decision-making spaces. Increased capacities for sustainable food production and fair trade for women in 24 communities. Strengthened economic initiatives for income generation, sustainability of organisational processes and technical training for women. Generated spaces for advocacy and the defense of women’s rights with the participation of 400 women of AMUDIBAL. Institutionalized gender policy in ACUDESBAL. 383 women have organised to defend sexual and reproductive health through advocacy activities on municipality and county level (Usulután.
Gender Equality & Women Empowerment (GEWEP) The aim of this project is to ensure that gender equality and women's human rights are respected in community development work and institutions. It aims at empowering women, engaging boys and men as agents of change to promote gender equality. It will support partner organizations implementing rural developemnt interventions in Kenya funded by We Effect to ensure that gender equality perspective and women empowerment components are strongly entrenched within the setcors. This project is expected to result to enhanced women's socio-economic empowerment as well as increased advocacy of gender equality issues affecting the rural development sector. About 6 groups of male and boy champions have been strengthened in areas where core partners are advocating for equality in coffee and dairy value chains. As a result of trainings of leadership and champions for gender equality, awareness creation on equality is permeating the community. The organisation has trained women and youths on social rights in three core partners and as a result a women network in coffee has been formed in Kipkellion Union to champion women participation in leadership and economic affairs. A youth council has also been formed in Kipkellion Union to see how more youths can participate in coffee farming . The organisation is using transformatory gender approaches such as community conversations, art, theatre and open forums to sensitize on gender and question societal practices that hinder women and youth participation in coffee cooperatives. The organisation is using transformatory gender approaches such as community conversations, art, theatre and open forums to sensitize on gender and question societal practices that hinder women and youth participation in coffee cooperatives. The organisation held a women's confidence building training for two core partners (Gusii and Kipkelion ) targeting 30 potential upcoming women leaders to be able to look up into getting in to leadership positions at organisation and community levels. The organisation supported BAMSCOS in training 18 male champions on gender equality to support women empowerment initiatives and gender equality work within the organisation.
Rural Women Economic Empowerment (REEP) The overall goal is to enhancing gender equality in rural development by promoting rural women farmers’ social- cultural and economic empowerment in Muranga and Nyandarua Counties in Kenya. Expected results include:- Strong internal systems that support organised groups of small scale farmers and traders; Improved livelihoods resulting from increased market linkages & farm income for mapped farmers. Increased and effective engagement of women and girls in the selected value chains and increased access and usage of financial services for women farmers. Recruited a staff with requisite qualifications and experience in agri-business to support in implementation of the project. Dialogues led with National potato council of Kenya in a bid to influence the Irish Potato Regulation on packaging and pricing. Women potato farmers in Nyandarua County participated in the review and validation of the Irish potato Regulations 2018 focusing on lobbying for adoption of a common unit of measurement and packaging to minimize losses. This was adopted and the regulations are expected to be gazetted by 24 December 2018.
Women Financial Inclusion through Saving and Credit Cooperatives The project is expected to improve the living conditions by enhancing women empowerment, women entrepreneurship development, gender sensitized policies and practices and increased access to financial resources. Progress results will be reported by the end of the year.
Strengthening governance and technical management FEDECOR, with improved organisational capacities and management, has improved its actions in favour of equality and has strengthened its advocacy capacity for the approval of public policies favourable to the sector. This project is in partnership with INDICEP. Eight agro-ecological for women in irrigation associations have been implemented and together with ANARESCAPYS a proposal for a legal framework on water was presented.
Programme Office Uganda Provide partner organisations with technical assistance and administrative support in planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation in We Effect cooperation projects in the country. The two technical staff provided overall support to  10 We Effect partner organisations in Uganda, ensuring provision of necessary technical support with respect to organisational identified capacity gaps. Program quality assurance framework , coherent financial reporting procedures, strengthen established networks with relevant stakeholders in the country with respect partner areas of work.
Promoting Equality in Coffee Enterprises (PECE) The goal is to improve farm productivity and incomes by enhancing the participation of women and young people in agricultural production. The project aims to strengthen the union and affiliates to be able to practice gender equality and offer demand driven services; scale-up advocacy and engagement of the duty bearers to develop & review legislation and policies to  become gender sensitive; improve agricultural productivity and food security for increased incomes; improve the farmers capacity to adapt to climate change and increase environmental sustainability; increase participation of women and young people in leadership and decision-making; increase women participation in productive social-economic activities; increase access to affordable financial services for women, young people and men members and increase access to  micro-insurance products and services by the farmers. Deliberate effort to send two (2) women for Leadership for change course to enhance their leadership skills in line with the project focus. Established coffee and tree nurseries to enhance coffee production with 9915 SL coffee seedlings, 2204 grevillea and 2200 macadamia. Engagement of the County Government on debt waiver and farm input supply of KES 500 million and the petition is at the Machakos county assembly. 
Enhanced advocacy activities particularly to the County Government of Machakos which has resulted to recognition of the cooperative sector by being incorporated into the Budget and Economic Forum and the Chair MCU appointed to represent the interests of the Cooperatives in the committee and the county in general.
Strengthen District Councils with Women Empowerment The project will be implemented by local partner Healthy Lanka, targeting the district level NGO consortiums which have been established by the government in each local government administrative locations and represent most of the CSO, CBO, NGO and INGO that implement activities in the particular districts. The project will target 10 district level consortiums and gender sub-committees in them. Women empowerment & leadership, reduce gender-based violence and gender equality are the main focus areas. The project is expected to have effectively functioning 10 District Consortiums of Civil Society organisations and ensure women empowerment and gender justice in their member organisations at the end of the five years of the project. And also, it aims to establish gender focal points at district level, at least 200 civil society organisations link with the district consortium from targeted locations and make duty-bearers accountable for their roles and responsibilities. Thus, it helps to achieve organised and empowered women in 10 Districts with improved well-being through gender justice and reduced gender-based violence. Healthy Lanka Alliance for Development, the implementing partner organisation initiated the project implementation in collaboration with the NGO secretariat and there by the six district level NGO consortiums which falls under Central, North Central, Eastern and Southern provinces of the country. The project orientations were conducted in each district with the participation of the district level goverment officals and other member NGO and the CSO of the NGO consortiums. in order to strengthen the district level NGO consortiums, it was proposed to develop training modules covering different disceplines. Therefore, the manual on organisational management and leadership was developped at the beginning of the project implementation. They have conducted six district level program to all the districts councils of civil society organisation on leadership, gender equality and institutional strengthening.
Consolidation of the cooperative housing movement Strengthening of CENCOVICOD and its grassroots cooperatives to influence the realization of the right to decent and accessible housing in a sustainable environment. 1: CENCOVICOD implements a strategy of financial sustainability; with management capacity to achieve fair and accessible financing, state subsidy, developable and urbanized land; and a technical team strengthened in its capacity to apply a gender equity approach and the inclusion of youth in the cooperative movement; 2: The cooperative movement with the capacity to influence public policies, participating in the application of political, normative and legal frameworks related to housing; promoting inclusive communities, awareness of the practice of equality of rights and gender equity and care of the environment; 3: The work of CENCOVICOD has been positioned and made visible; mechanisms for accountability in a transparent and participatory manner strengthened. CENCOVICOD has promoted the creation of the Housing Round Table, with MULTIPRO and MCN, to coordinate the dialogue with the State, negotiating the access of the cooperative housing sector and piloting an assistance model for cooperatives at INVUR and MEFCCA.
Regional Office Southern Africa We Effect is a decentralised organisation where development cooperation is managed at regional level. The main functions of the regional office are to provide technical assistance, ensure that development cooperation is being carried out in adherence with We Effect strategy, monitor and evaluate the effects of We Effect support, and ensure that internal control systems are adhered to, both within We Effect and partner organisations.
The project supports the quality assurance of We Effect's development cooperation in the Southern Africa region. Progress results will be reported by the end of the year.
Enhanced Financial Inclusion of Women and Youth (FI-WaY) To increase acess and usage of formal financial services by women, men and youth smallholders farmers. Increase member patronage from 96,000 to 133,000 by 2022. Develop new products to increase women patronage by 30% LFC Kenya: Three arenas for 2018 LFC class have been done successfully, LFC face-to-face trainings for the normal university students is also ongoing and two arenas have been completed. LFC e-learning module was also officially launched and testing is ongoing. 
LFC Uganda: The LFC 2018 training has attracted a total of 33 participants, where 21 are female and 12 male from member-based organisations. Two respective arenas (I) Visioning & (ii) Personal Growth have been completed by August.
Mainstreaming gender equality amongst partner organisations NGOCC is a council of gender related non governmental organisation that works to coordinate member activities and build their capacities. It works to promote social and economic empowerment of women  through strengthening the capacities of civil society partner  in gender mainstreaming Progress results will be reported by the end of the year.