The Regional Coordinator for the VOICE project at CDF Canada Rose Msosa has discussed with leaders of Ethio Wetlands and Natural Resources Association (EWNRA) about the implementation status of VOICE for Women and Girls project under CDF Canada.
Rose has discussed the progress of the project implementations so far, the challenges and good lessons. From EWNRA side VOICE is appreciated as a good project aligned with other projects which EWNRA is already conducting for many years. EWNRA uses Multi-purpose Cooperatives and SACCOs as an entry points for local project interventions in which women are most dominantly engaging. Voice is an ideal project contributing for the empowerment of women and girls in EWNRA’s main local structures of beneficiaries like Rural Saving and Credit Cooperatives (SACCOs), Rural Women Commercial Groups, Gender Model Families (GMF), forest management groups etc.
Currently instabilities in some area of the projects have been mentioned as a major challenge for the project implementation and the team plans to get back as soon as the situations improved in the area.
Rose explained that VOICE is recruiting international volunteers in different professions to support and build capacities of the project implementing staff.
Rose Msosa supports the coordination and implementation of the Volunteer Cooperation Program under the VOICE Project that focuses on the economic empowerment of women and youth in rural communities in Kenya, Malawi, Ethiopia, Ghana, and Senegal.
Voice is a project launched in September, 2022, designed to be implemented mainly to empower women, build the capacities of cooperatives and individual producers. The project is funded by Global Affairs Canada (GAC) via Co-operative Development Foundation of Canada (CDF) and EWNRA the only VOICE project implementing partner of CDF in Ethiopia.
