Cowater International Inc.
$15,000,000.00 CAD
- Department
- Global Affairs Canada
- 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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