This document provides an overview of We Effect, a Swedish development organization founded in 1958. It summarizes that We Effect works in 24 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Europe. Some of its key activities include providing training to over 160,000 people in entrepreneurship and financial services, helping over 1.3 million people in East Africa gain access to financial services, and securing land rights for communities in Mozambique and Zambia.

1. Henrik Brundin, deputy CEO

2. 6-year old Samina Hasani in Kosovo

3. Who are we?

4. Founded by several large
Swedish cooperative companies in 1958

5. One of Sida’s 19 frame organisations

6. Our funding (2015)
Operating Expenses 330 M SEK ~ 39 million USD

7. Where do we work?

8. We Effect 2016

9. What do we do?

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Savings and loans
Agriculture
Housing

11. How do we work?

12. In cooperation with over 160 partner organisations
in 24 countries

13. What are the results?

14. Results chain within our development cooperation work

15. Africa
• 99 700 young women and men received training on entrepreneurship and financial services
• 1.3 million people in Eastern Africa have gained access to financial services. Women’s access to these
services increased to 52,5% in 2015
• In Zambia, 593 small-scale farmers obtained registration of title to land.
• In Mozambique the right to land was secured for 20 communities, benefitting around 32 700 people
Latin America
• 10 485 leaders received training on organisational development, finance and political processes. 73%
of these were women
• 7 259 women attended courses on equality. 387 men participated in equality courses aimed specifically
at men
• The proportion of women on the boards of farmers’ organisations increased to just over 45%
• 42% per cent of ”our” farmers in the region increased their production per hectare, despite another year
of El Niño weather phenomenon – the improvement was largely possible thanks to agro-organic methods
and climate-adopted crops
Some examples from 2015

16. Some examples from 2015
Asia
• 5 378 farmers participated in courses on animal husbandry
• In Cambodia, farmers who attended our course on sustainable farming and animal husbandry increased
their incomes by and average of 10%
• 11 707 people in Sri Lanka increased their income from an average of SEK 16 to SEK 28 per day
Europe
• In Moldova, dairy farmers were paid 27% more for their milk, compared to 2014. A result of increased
capacity and strengthened negotiating power
• 50% of the participants in our Europe Programme were women
• 3 000 Romanies recieved support in setting up organised groups, and education on sustainable
farming

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18. What has happened
recently that might change
Swedish development aid?

22. Will poverty
be eradicted faster now?

23. Samina Hasani in Kosovo
YES!

24. Thank you
Henrik Brundin, deputy CEO
henrik.brundin@weeffect.se