The Power of Cooperatives: Working Together for Sustainability
In honor of International Cooperative Day, we look inside one Kenyan cooperative that has restructured its labor practices to improve safety and working conditions.
The Cashew Apple Doesn’t Fall Far from the Tree
Dive deep into a TechnoServe project that worked to connect smallholder Mozambican cashew farmers to rewards that went far beyond just nut production. Carlos Lássimo not only learned how to be a more productive cashew farmer, but also a seedling producer, and is now sharing his knowledge and spreading the wealth in his community.
Factories in the Field
Rural Transformation and the Organization of Work in Mozambique’s Cashew Triangle.
WIN celebrated the end of a five-year cycle promoting women’s economic empowerment in Mozambique
The Women IN Business program, celebrated on May 31st, the end of its implementation cycle in Mozambique. WIN aimed to accelerate the economic empowerment of micro-entrepreneurs, through smart partnerships with private and public sector companies, which proved to be able to test models, promoting changes in the market, thus minimizing…
Private sector companies explore WIN tools to accelerate gender inclusion in their operations
WIN in partnership with the Brilho program implemented by SNV, supported 3 companies directly to conduct studies to enable them to have greater gender inclusion within their framework, which includes employees, distributors and customers. SolarWorks, Ignite Mozambique, and Epsilon Energia Solar, co-applied the WIN tools for a greater gender framework…
Financial Services Case Study
This case study is one of a four-part series designed to explore the effectiveness of interventions across different sectors to increase women’s economic empowerment. The series includes case studies on achieving women’s economic empowerment through four of WIN’s intervention areas: media, financial services, distribution and management tools and information. Improving…
WIN supports Moza Banco in the design of a financial literacy radio program in Northern Mozambique
WIN is supporting Moza Banco, a commercial financial institution, in the conception of a financial literacy radio program in local languages in three provinces, namely Nampula, Niassa and Zambezia. Just over a month ago, the program showed encouraging results in terms of engaged audience at the community level. These radio…
Business Fight Poverty publishes WIN article
How gender-responsive media can help women’s economic empowerment – and business is the WIN article published by Business Fight Poverty. a global community of people, companies and organizations passionate about building an equitable and resilient future that believes in the power of business, to help improve lives,…
How to drive impact and ensure sustainability in the media sector
How to drive impact and ensure sustainability in the media sector, is the topic of the article produced by the WIN program. This article provides an overview of the current state of Media in Africa, description of WIN initiatives that have reached about 452,000 micro-entrepreneurs with information related to tips…
How can players in the media sector make money while making a difference?
“WIN’s article “How can players in the media sector make money while making a difference?”, discusses the importance of having data to measure audience and impact, describes models used in this sector outside of Mozambique (Africa) for the different media players (content producers, media channels, commercial advertisers & agencies, non-commercial…
