2. Planned:
100 women receive
training on VCD
100 women receive
grants and form-
10 value chains
10 trained trainers
on VCD
Implemented:
105 women received
training,
102 of them received
grants and formed-
12 value chains
14 trained trainers on
VCD
THE PROJECT IN NUMBERS

3. Planned:
10 Trainers on Social
Cohesion
200 women trained on
Social cohesion
10 Women Social
Cohesion Groups
(WSCGs) do-
10 QIPs
Implemented:
Not done yet; planned
second week of March
Not done yet; planned
mid March till mid-
April
12 social cohesion
groups formed
12 “Planned” QIPs;
implementation
planned from mid-
March to mid-April
THE PROJECT IN NUMBERS

4. 2 Poultry raising
2 Bee Keeping
1 Dairy products
5 trading in
vegetables,
grocery and
food products
1 trading in
women’s
accessories
1 trading in
tools and
supplies
TYPES OF VALUE CHAINS

5. Children &youth:
• Sports
• Cleaning
campaigns
• Tree plantation
• Drawing and color
festivals
• Child literature
• School
maintenance
Women
• Cooking &
nutrition
• Health
awareness
• Vocational
training
• Self expression
• Family
gatherings
TYPES OF ACTIVITIES IN PLANNED QIPS

6. • Increased
income
• Response to
basic needs of
the family
(Rented a new
house, food,
clothes,
education..
etc.)
INITIAL RESULTS

7. • Learning to be
wise with
spending and
do some
savings (now
we can do a lot
with 25000
IQD)
• Bookkeeping in
all value chains
INITIAL RESULTS

8. • Improved
relationships
between group
members across
their diversities
(exchange of home
visits, mutual
acceptance, feeling
welcomed,
expressing
appreciation)
INITIAL RESULTS

9. INITIAL RESULTS
• Improved relationships
between women from
different value chains
(exchange of visits,
purchasing from each
other, willing to sell their
products at each others’
outlets).
• Improved group
members’ relationships
with neighbors (they are
now our clients) (We ask
our clients before we
add a new product)

10. • Increased
confidence (we
now have
something in
our name)
• Voice and
leadership
opportunities
(for group
leaders)
INITIAL RESULTS

11. INITIAL RESULTS
• Ambitions to
grow and
have assets
(we want to
grow our
business and
buy assets ) (a
cow, a
machine, a
deep freezer ..
Etc.)

12. • Drawing attention
to expiry dates
INITIAL RESULTS

13. • Some value chains
needed to split
while keeping
good relationships
• Some value chains
needed to
redesign their
group enterprise
due to crisis
CHALLENGES

14. • In some value
chains men
(husbands)
were
dominating
and wanted to
take over the
project
• In some value
chains women
recruited a
person to sell
in the shop
(cultural
challenge)
CHALLENGES

15. • Lost enterprise;
added vocational
skills activities for
members to move
forward;
connecting them
with the market
• Corrective action
to reform project
• Preventive
actions including
technical training
before start-up
• Involving
community
natural leaders in
mediating
potential conflict
among group
members
MEETING CHALLENGES

16. • Encouraged
women to
meet
regularly in
the shop to
discuss
topics of
mutual
interest in
addition to
the project
• Encouraged
women to
produce
home made
products to
sell in their
own shops to
get weekly
income
instead of
waiting
MEETING CHALLENGES (2)

17. • To increase
women mobility
we needed to
connect them
with MoDM to
have an IDP
card, and
permission at
the check point
• Sending some
money to their
families & older
children at
university back
home (Tikrit,
Salah El Din)
since not have all
needs met
SECONDARY IMPACT

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QUESTIONS?