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System Innovation for Women Economic Empowerment (SIWEE)

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Project Name

System Innovation for Women Economic Empowerment (SIWEE)

Start Date

12-07-2020

Location

Ghana

Donor

OXFAM

Project Duration

6 Months

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The System Innovation for Women Economic Empowerment (SIWEE) Project, implemented with support from OXFAM, sought to address the systemic barriers limiting women’s access to economic opportunities. Working with women sorghum farmers in the Pusiga District of the Upper East Region, the project combined capacity building, financial inclusion, governance strengthening, access to productive assets, and livelihood diversification to promote sustainable economic empowerment. Through a collaborative and action-oriented approach, SIWEE enhanced the resilience, productivity, and financial independence of women farmers, contributing to improved livelihoods and long-term community development.

Objective

The ultimate end-goal is to develop solutions tailored and relevant to resolving complex and systemic social challenges and barriers affecting women’s access to economic opportunities

Project Summary

SIWEE is a pioneering, collaborative action learning oriented initiative, designed to catalyse and facilitate transformational change for women’s economic empowerment. Under the SIWEE program, PFAG worked with women sorghum farmers in the Pusiga district of the Upper East Region to empower them with the right technical and logistical support to overcome the barriers of systemic poverty. Key activities undertaken by PFAG within the year included

  1. Training women farmers on financial literacy to provide women with access to financial wellness resources that will foster the transmission of financial knowledge and skills resulting in financially independent and confident women farmers
  2. Training on cooperative principles and practices of governance system to enhance the growth and sustainability of the farmer groups.
  3. Introduce women farmers to the Village Savings and Loans Association (VSLA) concept to promote financial reliability and independence.
  4. Purchase of production equipment such as a pair of bullocks and their corresponding ploughs for each of the two project communities, two sheets of tarpaulin for drying of their grains and two set of digital scales for accurate measurement of grains before bagging and selling.
  5. Facilitate the registration of groups with the Department of Cooperatives and the Ghana Enterprise Agency (GEA).
  6. Procurement of power tillers for women farmers in both communities.
  7. Construction of two storage facilities for women farmers in the two communities.
  8. Training of women in alternative livelihoods, including “dawadawa” processing and rice parboiling.

Major outcomes

The major outcomes harvested because of this intervention include

  1. Women groups have begun integrating financial principles in the farming activities, by keeping records and developing crop budgets
  2. Governance structures of groups in the two communities have been improved. Eight groups have been strengthened in the two communities, and they now have elected leaders and a functional constitution.
  3. Women farmers have access to credit from their respective VSLA groups.
  4. Post-harvest loss associated with sorghum has been reduced due to the supply of the tarpaulins and storage facilities for the farmers.
  5. Weighing system has led to fair and competitive prices for sorghum produced by women farmers.
  6. Women have diversified sources of incomes

Frequently asked questions

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The System Innovation for Women Economic Empowerment (SIWEE) Project is an initiative that supports women farmers by addressing barriers to economic opportunities through financial inclusion, skills development, access to productive resources, and livelihood diversification.

The project primarily benefits women farmers, particularly sorghum producers, by providing training, agricultural equipment, financial literacy support, and opportunities for economic empowerment.

SIWEE strengthens women’s financial independence through savings and loan schemes, governance training, access to farming equipment, storage facilities, alternative livelihood opportunities, and improved market practices.

The project has strengthened women farmer groups, improved access to credit, reduced post-harvest losses, promoted fair pricing of farm produce, enhanced group governance structures, and diversified income sources for participating women farmers.

The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG), is the apex Farmer-Based Non-Governmental Organization in Ghana with the mandate to advocate for pro poor agriculture and trade policies and other issues that affects the livelihoods of small holder farmers.

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