The Ministry of Gender says the Women’s Empowerment component of the Girl’s Education and Women’s Empowerment and Livelihoods GEWEL Project is yielding positive results in the country.
Ministry Permanent Secretary Auxilia Ponga says most women have invested the 200 dollar grants they received into animal rearing, education for their children and lending each other among others.
She says some beneficiaries of the Project in Petauke District are sensitizing other women and their partners on the importance of empowering women.
She says it is important for women to be supported as an investment in women entails support to a whole family.
According to the World Bank Website, As of mid-November 2018, a total of 49,865 women and girls from extremely poor households in Zambia have benefitted from the project. This number is halfway from its end target of 89,000 beneficiaries.
The Supporting Women’s Livelihoods (SWL) component (Component 1) has reached 33,626 beneficiaries in 20 additional districts and 11 existing districts, which is close to half the target of 75,000.
The Keeping Girls in School (KGS) component (Component 2) has exceeded the target for the number of girls for whom school fees would be paid, with fees having been paid for 16,239 students in Term 2 of 2018 against its target of 14,000 by September 2020.
In addition, some intermediate result indicators have also exceeded initial end targets such as the number of community based volunteers trained as trainers 1,567 that is more than doubled the original end target and close to 100 percent share of women who complete the livelihood training against an end target of 70 percent.
The Project is expected to run until 30th September 2020 with the Keeping Girls in School component budget of $25.78M and the Supporting Women’s Livelihoods at a Cost of $36.00M while the Institutional Strengthening and Systems Building component budgeted at $3.22M.

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