Skills Development and Entrepreneurship
With a vision to see young unemployed women live their lives with dignity, purpose, and hope; CPA UK creates opportunities for holistic development through three key areas: Education, Skills Development, and Social Enterprise.
The Charity’s mission is to provide impetus to entrepreneurship and bring a sense of self-confidence to vulnerable women. By providing access to training and employment opportunities to vulnerable women and survivors of gender-based violence, CPA UK supports inclusive economic growth and gender empowerment.
Our interventions aim to improve economic opportunities for disadvantaged women by providing market-relevant skills training, entrepreneurship training, mentorship, financial literacy, eCommerce/eMarketing, and access to start-up capital through micro-financing and community-based lending programs.
Women typically face more financial constraints than men. This affects their ability to pay for skills training or related costs, such as transportation. Women also have less access to finance to support business start-ups or expand their businesses after receiving skills training. This inhibits women and girls’ participation in skills training itself as well as putting that training to good use.
CPA UK Offers revolving cash grants conditional on attendance and financial capital to use upon completion of a skills training program in order for beneficiaries to overcome these barriers. Our beneficiaries are vulnerable women and girls such as survivors of gender violence, teenage mothers, school drop-outs, etc.
By providing tailored vocational skills and entrepreneurship training, mentoring, and financial support, CPA UK stimulates women’s participation in public and economic life and addresses rural poverty, a root cause of gender-based violence. The Organization works together with local communities and other government agencies that have the same interest to implement the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) within project communities.
