Priority Theme: Women's Economic Power and the Changing World of Work
1. Sponsoring Organization:
Nation to Nation Networking
2. Region: Africa
3. Parallel Event Title by Nation to Nation Networking:
Empowering Urban Women with their health and well-being for themselves, their children and their families through small business enterprises.
4. Brief Description:
Urban Third World women can participate in their respective countries' economies through small scale businesses, either with home-based enterprises or by catering to specific businesses in their communities, in order to manage their own and their families financial health and well-being.
Women have talented skills in typically female activities such as cooking and sewing. Through well-managed projects they can provide meals and food items for local restaurants, hotels and private homes by selling their products for profit to further benefit their own homes and families.
Special workshops and training sessions can be set up to help these women with:
- business enterprises
- healthy and wholesome cooking facilities and methods
- hygiene
- food storage and transportation techniques
- financial management of the enterprises
- Mentorship and guidance
5. Demonstrate/Explain How topic directly relates to theme selected:
Women are having to contribute to the financial well-being of their families more and more. But many are still juggling home-care with earning wages for their families. The small-business enterprises described above will use the home-based skills and knowledge they have already mastered so that they can generate income. They will be able to contribute their earnings towards their families' household income, pulling them out of poverty and dependence. These women will be able to participate in the changing world of work, which puts them in the forefront of their families' economic activity by giving them important economic powers.
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