KWY is a FAII program to support economic empowerment for women and youth. Our aim is to promote access and utilization to resources of production including capital, information, land. We focus on financial inclusion and entrepreneurship, agriculture, and decent living. Under this program, we equip women and youth 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. Under decent living, we focus on rights for women and youth including mothers and children to live in safe and secure environments with regards to their property rights and security.

a. Financial inclusion and entrepreneurship

Women and youth are empowered to form groups including village savings and loans associations of at
least 25 members each and community based organizations to have collective efforts towards their
development. Through groups, women and youth are able to mobilize resources such as savings to
enable them do small investments. FAII also supports the groups to access user friendly gender equitable
loans to further boost their livelihoods. Moreover, through groups women and youth benefit from local
government programs that are targeting well organized community groups.
FAII also builds capacity of cooperatives to promote their functionality because they play a key role in the
development of rural communities. FAII focuses on aspects such as leadership, committees,
management, formal registration, financial management, records keeping, conflict resolution and
networking.

Under entrepreneurship, FAII focuses on human
capital development by empowering women and
youth with skills such as vocational skills, life skills,
ICT, financial and business management,
networking and marketing, and among others to
enable them meaningfully engage in socio
economic development.
We provide mentorship and coaching in business
management so that women and youth can thrive
within their communities. We closely work with
private sector, CSOs and local government to link
women to existing financial opportunities.

Under financial inclusion, we measure the number of women and youth who have been linked to financial services inform of information, loans and seed grants, ICT enabled business spaces and are conducting formal and informal business. We also focus on the participants’ knowledge in business management and networks established to leverage their incomes. Our purpose is to ensure that women and youth don’t just survive with barely enough but are able to meaningfully participate in decent employment and influence economic policies and strategies for their active involvement in development. Through groups, we promote the village savings loans association plus methodology to enable women and youth draw strengths and abilities from each other for their development.
Furthermore, through groups, women and youth are empowerment to do community led advocacy efforts to promote their land rights and financial inclusion as well as active participation in local government programs.

b. Agriculture

Agriculture is a major source of food and livelihoods for many rural women in Uganda. We therefore support mothers to increase their agriculture production for food security and income generation. We do this through trainings in good agronomic climate change responsive and adaptation practices, seed support, value addition and linking them to markets for the produce/products. We also support women and youth to advocate for land rights for women to attain agriculture land for production. We measure our impact through homes that are able to generate own food and incomes attained through agriculture.

c. Decent living
KWY is premised on the fact that the women shoulder a larger amount of care work in a home. Care work requires the investment of mothers’ time and resources to ably provide for their children and families. We draw on existing resources, strengths and capital to support women and youth earn income and protect their living spaces.
Under the decent living program, we seek to promote decent and secure places of living for women, youth and their children. Our focus is on ensuring that women’s property rights are respected as well as mothers and children living in clean and safe homes with proper hygiene gear. We also promote Water, Hygiene and Sanitation in households. This is done through awareness promotion, supporting households with water systems and hygiene gear to reduce the mothers’ care load of searching for water.A home is safe haven for a mother and her child(ren) hence it needs to have a conducive environment for their mental and physical health.