Cameroon

Bokwaongo Women Empowerment Project

Recent transformation in Cameroon's economy has profoundly changed the parameters of social development. One significant trend has been the increased burden of poverty on women, which accounts for the the feminisation of poverty in the country, both in qualitative and quantitative terms.

The goal of this project is to assist vulnerable womens' groups from Bokwaongo village in the Southwest Province of Cameroon to generate significant household income and improve their socio-economic status and living conditions. The project has identified four women self-help and common initiative groups and will train them in pig rearing and on strategies to boost their household incomes through marketing.

The revolving funds will be used to buy pigs, distribute these initially to two of the groups, with the piglets produced from these animals being gifted to the members of the remaining groups.