Economic empowerment

As our intervention areas are often rural, where women and girls are highly marginalized and discriminated against by local cultures, girls are seen as belonging to the families they will marry into.

Our approach in the selection of VSLA members. EMI, favor 75% participation of women compared to 25% of men for each VSLA with the aim of emancipating women who have long been marginalized in most of our areas of intervention where they have always been excluded from any form of household management and the community. Specifically in the context of VSLAs, EMI has experienced more success in its interventions based on its different methodological approaches implemented and applied. Since 2011 EMI has succeeded in forming more than 1630 VSLA groups. VSLA members are identified on the basis of the poverty threshold, that is to say, we prioritize members from the most vulnerable families in our Intervention area. . Each group brings together 25 members who benefit from different capacity building training on different topics namely