Women Economic and social program
Food and Nutrition
Under this program, our focus is on four initiatives including Food and Nutrition, Agribusiness and farmer institutional development, Access to gender equitable finance, Leadership and women economic rights.
Our food and nutrition program focuses on sustainable agriculture and nutrition education to enable women and their children have enough and nutritious food. HHU directs her efforts to improving food production through climate friendly farming practices, harvesting techniques, food preservation, kitchen gardening, crop diversification and nutrition education. Food and nutrition also involves awareness, provision of food supplements and encouraging mothers to grow home vegetable gardens.
Agribusiness and Farmer Institutional Development
This initiative focuses on women farmer meaningful engagement in the agricultural chain and
income generating activities. Farmers receive intensive training in institutional development and
governance. The goal is to establish a core of functioning institutions/groups/cooperatives/
Village Savings and Loans Associations (VSLAs) capable of producing and marketing high
quality, high value agricultural products. The long-term vision of agribusiness is a women-led
agricultural value chain whereby women are participants in every facet of the agricultural
production cycle: producers, processors, distributors, managers and owners.
Agribusiness initiative functions not only as an income generation mechanism but as an agent
of unification bringing together diverse groups of women and their families irrespective of
cultural, religious or ethnic backgrounds. HHD has adopted a working model that further
increases capacity of farming communities to carry out profitable agribusiness. This is done by
offering free advisory services to the farmers and small business owners to enable them to
invest in their agricultural initiatives.
Access to Gender Equitable Finance
Under this program, we equip women with
knowledge and skills in entrepreneurship
and finance management, link them to
opportunities to access financial services
through loans and seed grants, agriculture
and business development. Through their
farmer institutions such as village savings
and loans associations, cooperatives,
women groups, collectives, women are
also able to pull a few resources to add on
to their investments. Women groups are
empowered to apply for government
women enterprise schemes to access
capital, information and technical support
to further their development.
