Promoting Opportunities for Women’s Empowerment and Rights (POWER)

Economic Empowerment is crucial for addressing gender inequality and improving women’s rights and status within families and society. It leads to greater self-reliance and self-confidence among women, essential for their overall empowerment. Involving women and socially excluded groups as active participants, rather than beneficiaries, results in more sustainable and impactful development outcomes. Strengthening VWGs is strategic for supporting the economic development of women and socially excluded groups. A holistic approach that includes capacity development, economic empowerment, and awareness and advocacy programs is essential for creating peaceful and harmonious societies. POWER builds on the successes of RENEW, which was funded by GAC through the Development Impact initiative. This project integrates lessons learnt as well as best practices and aims at strengthening the women’s cooperative “Sammanit Mahila Uddyamshil Sahakari” in Makwanpur so that it can be sustainable when POWER is completed. POWER aims to create a more inclusive and equitable society where all members can thrive in the target areas of the project at the 6 villages of Makwanpur district in the Central Nepal.