Course 4: Rural Women Empowerment

Women Empowerment Programme

Duration: 10days Price: $600

Background

Justification

Poverty has several manifestations, which include lack of income and productive resources sufficient to ensure sustainable livelihoods, hunger and malnutrition, ill health, limited or lack of access to education and other basic services, unsafe environments, social discrimination and/or exclusion. Where issues of poverty are raised, women who form more than 50% of the more than 1 billion people are often the most affected. This is because, by and large, they are in every society, also the most disadvantaged. The same scenario is true for East African women. It is against this background that AICAD plans to tackle some of the problems that rural women face in agriculture, land management and environment as producers of food, health and first aid, income generation and value addition as well as leadership issues within its target communities. In East Africa, where more than 80% of the population lives in the rural areas, it is also true that the majority of women are found there, hence the focus on the programme.

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General aim of the Course

The aim of the course is to equip rural women with a holistic development that will make them independent, self-reliant and able to make informed choices and decisions.

Course Objectives

To provide rural women with broad based knowledge in:

  1. Agriculture and Livestock Management
  2. Environment, water management and sanitation
  3. Health and Home Care Management
  4. Enterprise Development and Management
  5. Principles and practices of Value Addition/Food Processing
  6. Marketing of products
  7. Group Management Record keeping, group formation and management
  8. Cross cutting issues of gender, education, food and nutrition security, leadership and legal Issues.

Training Methodology

Besides lectures, the course will also include practical sessions, discussions, problem solving, case studies, exercises and demonstrations on various aspects of the course. Field visits to relevant sites will be carried out to help participants experience first hand, the principles they have met in class. Resource persons/ trainees will set exercises relevant to their topics and select guest speakers who will enrich the course content. Generally, the course will be carried out in such a way that participants can relate information that they meet in class to their own experiences with other business people or customers.

Resource Persons

Resource persons for this course are sourced from our collaborating institutions in the region: universities, institutes of business and management, polytechnics as well as business schools, Non-governmental organizations and so on.

Training Cost/Scholarship and Acccomodation

The full cost of the training course is USD 250 (Ksh. 32,500) to cater for course facilitation / training fees, full board accommodation, meals and field trips, training   resource materials, stationery and other training supplies; certificates and cost of training venue. The training cost does not cover medical insurance and other personal expenses in course of the training.

All Participants will be accommodated within AICAD Hostels at JKUAT. There is limited accommodation and participants are requested not to come with dependents.

Course Modules

  • 01

    Agriculture and Livestock

    The aim is train rural women farmers to improve overall agricultural productivity, and efficiency hence: Raise rural incomes, create wealth, increase household food security

  • 02

    Health Issues

    To empower rural women by imparting knowledge and skills leading to healthy lives and reduction of disease-related poverty.

  • 03

    Principles and Practices of Value Addition

    This module aims to equip participants with skills in value addition to enable them improve their living standards through income generation

  • 04

    Environment, Water Management and Sanitation

    This module aims to equip participants with broad-based knowledge and skills that will enable rural women take charge of environmental protection, water management and sanitation.

  • 05

    Enterprise Development and Management Development

    This module aims to equip participants with skills needed for enhancing entrepreneurial and managerial competence to engage in productive economic activities

  • 06

    Home Management

    This module aims to equip participants with skills needed in effective home management practices

  • 07

    Leadership/Cross Cutting Issues

    This module aims to equip participants with leadership skills

  • 08

    Crosscutting Issues; Gender and Legal Issues (to include both men and women)

    This module aims to enhance awareness on gender and legal issues that affects the lives of rural women

For more information on the training course please contact:

AICAD , Director Training and Extension
Africa Institute for Capacity Development
P.O. Box 46179 – 00100 GPO, Nairobi, Kenya
Email: wakhu@aicad.or.ke or te@aicad.or.ke
Tel: +254 726 610 402 or 0733523014