Accelerating Rural Women's Access to Agricultural Market and Trade in Nigeria

Foosteer Initiative with support from Global Water Challenge (GWC) and collaboration with other partners is accelerating Nigerian rural Women's access to Agricultural Market and Trade.

The goal of the project is to empower 3400 vulnerable women farmers economically and socially, improve their livelihood and strengthen their business skills to allow them fully maximize their participation and benefit from agricultural markets and trade.

Specifically , this project 1. Assisted women to organize themselves in sustainable and effective organizations that can be used as a vehicle for social and economic empowerment.

2. Enhanced women's capacity to advocate for essential services that promote production in their established groups.

3. Enhanced their business capacity through business skills training production strengthening and market linkages for increase in their income.

Considering the fundamental importance of access to safe drinking water and sanitation services to well-being and healthy sustainable livelihoods, the project provides regular dissemination of WASH information to communities through radio, newspapers, community centers e.t.c

Worthy of note is Dissemination of WASH (Water Sanitation and Hygiene) information and the distribution aof hygiene kits across 100 schools in Oyo, reaching over 70,000 children as direct beneficiaries. 10 of this 100 schools are provided with 10 boreholes.

Target communities are: Oke-ado Northwest, Oke-ado South -west, Onara.