Addressing Critical Challenges through the Social and Economic Empowerment of Women

1. Savings Groups ‘Plus’ in New & Emerging
Areas of Concern:
Dennis Mello, Global Associate Technical Advisor, PCI, Women Empowered Initiative
CORE Group Meeting
Portland, OR
May 17, 2016
Addressing Critical Challenges through the
Social & Economic Empowerment of
Women

2. • Introduce Project Concern International (PCI)
• Highlight PCI’s flagship women’s empowerment program: “Women
Empowered Initiative”
• Feature critical emerging areas of work:
– Urbanization and Citizen Security
– Climate Change Adaptation
– Working amidst Pandemics
• Discussion & Questions
Objectives:

4. PCI’s WOMEN
EMPOWERED INITIATIVE:
…a savings-led microfinance
program with strategic integration of
economic, human and social capital
development, supported by rigorous
measurement of the impact.

5. Active Women Empowered Programs:
• United States
• Haiti
• Guatemala
• Nicaragua
• Bolivia
• Liberia
• Ethiopia
• Tanzania
• Malawi
• Zambia
• Botswana
• India

6. Women Empowered Groups and
Multidimensional Programming
Savings groups, ‘plus’:
• Equal focus on social
and economic empowerment
• Social issues discussions
• Goal Setting and Action Planning

7. Urban Resilience
Urbanization
Barrio Mio, Mixco, Guatemala

8. Citizen Security
RAAN, Nicaragua
Urbanization

9. Climate Change Adaptation
Bale Robe Oromia, Ethiopia

10. Bong and Nimba Counties, Liberia
Pandemics

11. Huehuetenango, Guatemala
Pandemics

12. Questions
Dennis Mello
dmello@pciglobal.org