Cowater International Inc.

$15,000,000.00 CAD

≈ $0.36 for every person in Canada ≈ 194 Canadians' average pay for a year
Department
Global Affairs Canada
Program
Contributions - Bilateral Programming
Recipient country
Canada
Fiscal year
2024-2025
Agreement period
March 4, 2025 – March 31, 2030
Reference
dfatd-maecd:064-2024-2025-Q4-A0024

Published purpose

This project aims to enhance economic empowerment and increase prosperity for low-income women and youth, particularly female youth, in the West Bank. The project seeks to achieve this by adopting a gender transformative approach to recognise, formalise, and amplify women and youth's existing roles in the agricultural and renewable energy sectors. Project activities include: (1) conducting policy advocacy initiatives to address policy barriers to women and youth's entrepreneurship; (2) providing entrepreneurship and business management training opportunities for women and youth; (3) assisting established MSMEs in expending their operations, accessing markets and adopting green business models; and (4) empowering renewable energy and energy efficiency engineers by providing career advancement opportunities and preparing them for leadership roles.

In plain English AI-generated

This project supports economic empowerment for low-income women and youth in the West Bank through training, policy advocacy, and support for small businesses in agriculture and renewable energy.

Category: Foreign Aid Development Primarily funds activity outside Canada

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