Generating Revenue Opportunities for Women and Youth

This project aims to enhance economic empowerment and increase prosperity for low-income women and youth particularly female youth in the West Bank. The project seeks to achieve this by adopting a gender transformative approach to recognise formalise and amplify women’s existing roles in the agricultural sector. This focuses on the olive oil and agro-food processing value chains while promoting women’s increased decision-making and control over income assets and productive resources. Project activities include: (1) conducting policy advocacy initiatives to address policy barriers to women's entrepreneurship; (2) providing entrepreneurship and business management training opportunities for women; (3) supporting access to sustainable financial solutions for women in women-led micro-small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and agricultural cooperatives; and (4) designing and implementing renewable energy placement programs for women and female youth apprentices or trainees focusing on students and recent graduates.

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) increased access to a supportive environment for women-led micro-small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and agricultural cooperatives in the olive oil and agro-food processing value chains; (2) enhanced technical business and managerial capacity of women-led MSMEs and agricultural cooperatives to successfully establish and grow sustainable businesses in the olive oil and agro-food processing value chains; and (3) increased capacity of female entrepreneurs particularly female youth to support the adoption of renewable energy in the olive oil and agro-food processing value chains.