| Kenya
Improving the Livelihoods of Sudanese Refugee Families in Kenyan
Urban Centers
Partners: LWR and Sudanese Women’s Association in Nairobi (SWAN)
As a result of the ongoing civil war in southern Sudan, over six million
Sudanese have become internally displaced. Millions have sought refuge
in Kenya and other neighboring countries. While many of these refugees
live in designated camps, thousands make their way into the urban centers
of their host countries. With husbands either dead or fighting in the
civil war, many women are left to fend for themselves and their families.
These women come to Kenya’s urban areas lacking the literacy skills,
education, and capital needed to start a sustainable life. They live in
cheap and unhygienic housing without access to food, water, clothing medical
care, or basic education for themselves and their children. SWAN offers
small-business training and micro business loans to these women whose
lives are threatened by the effects of Sudan’s civil war, as well
as providing literacy training and peace building networks.
Goal:
To improve the quality of life for the target group of Sudanese refugee
women by providing access to working capital through an expanded and better
managed micro-credit facility, delivering business development and management
training, increasing functional literacy, and supporting women as they
undertake more focused peace-building efforts in order to address the
cause of their struggles.
SWAN also intends to strengthen its own institutional capacity to plan
for and manage more sustainable and self-sufficient programs.
Objectives:
- Train a representative peace committee of 28 SWAN members in mediation
and conflict resolution, leadership, human rights, advocacy and lobbying,
and develop a plan of action for utilizing these skills most effectively.
- Provide “credit institution management for sustainability”
training to SWAN micro credit program staff and area representatives.
Extend working capital loans to 200 SWAN members to expand or start
businesses.
- Provide SWAN members business training in strategic planning, marketing,
accounting and financial management with credit.
- Train 50 additional SWAN members in functional literacy.
- Develop a strategic plan for SWAN aimed at guiding funds diversification
and achievement of greater self-sufficiency.
Peace Projects : Kenya,
Mauritana, Sudan,
and Tanzania.
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