Consortium Save the Children & Norwegian Refugee Council

Published purpose

This project aims to create sustained entrepreneurship opportunities directly benefiting young women and adolescent girls (between the ages of 15 and 18) by addressing the main gender-based barriers they face to entrepreneurship and agency that impede their opportunities to develop Micro Small and Medium enterprises (MSMEs). The project focuses on vegetable and dairy production in the West Bank and Gaza. Project activities include: (1) providing entrepreneurship training opportunities for young women and adolescents girls; (2) creating internship and apprenticeship opportunities for recent women graduates in partnership with women-led cooperatives and relevant MSMEs for young women and adolescent girls; (3) providing gender-sensitive extension services for young women entrepreneurs; (4) establishing support groups and mentorship programs for young women and adolescent girl entrepreneurs’ experience sharing and learning; and (5) conducting awareness activities to improve attitudes and leadership towards young women’s entrepreneurship by community leaders and members.