Initiatives & Projects
(VOLIP) Vocational Literacy Program
“MORE” Maximizing Opportunities for Rural Entrepreneurs
Exposure Visit to Azerbaijan
Yemen Emergency Crisis Response Project
Youth Savers
Youth Saving Initiative
Program Name
Youth Saving Initiative
Donors:
German International (GIZ) and Silatech.
Partners:
Al-Amal MF Bank (AMB)
AlKuraimi Islamic MF Bank.
Targeted:
20,000 Yemeni from Youths
between 18 – 30.
Locations:
All Yemeni governorates.
Time Period:
Two years (2013 and 2014).
The Overall Goal:
To promote savings culture among youth and configure their financial identity and eliminate financial literacy.
The Primary Objective:
Promoting youth to save and improve their financial culture for facing life and starting up their own enterprises in the future.
“MORE” Maximizing Opportunities for Rural Entrepreneurs
Program Name
“MORE” Maximizing Opportunities for Rural Entrepreneurs in Yemen
Donors:
European Commission.
Partners:
Mercy Corps and YMN
Targeted:
50 seed producer and 500 existing oil processors.
Locations:
Taiz, Lahj, Abyan, AlHudeidah and Aden governorates.
Time Period:
Sep 2014 – Sep 2016
The Overall Goal:
To Increase Rural Incomes through Strategic Investment in the Sesame Value Chain.
The Primary Objective:
1. Increase farm incomes, production and productivity within the sesame value chain.
2. Improve sesame processing and transformation methods.
3. Improve market linkages, and promote strategic partnerships along the sesame value chain.
Exposure Visit to Azerbaijan
Program Name
Exposure Visit to Azerbaijan
Sponsor :
SFD – Social Fund for Development / SANAD Fund
Partners:
Targeted:
Locations:
Time Period:
The Overall Goal:
The Primary Objective:
Yemen Emergency Crisis Response Project
Program Name
Yemen Emergency Crisis Response Project
Sponsor :
SFD Social Fund for Development/world bank/UNDP
Partners:
Targeted:
Locations:
Republic of Yemen( all governorates)
Time Period:
18Months
The Overall Goal:
Providing support to war-affected microfinance clients who have lost some or all of their projects.
The Primary Objective:
– Provide in-kind support for affected projects to bring the beneficiaries back to business.
– Contributing to the recovery of the sector in particular and the economy in general
(VOLIP) Vocational Literacy Program
Program Name
(VOLIP) Vocational Literacy Program
Sponsor :
Social Fund for Development (SFD).
Partners:
Yemen Microfinance Network (YMN)
Targeted:
8,000 beneficiaries.
Locations:
Sana’a, Hadhramout, Lahj and Hodiedah.
Time Period:
Sep 2014 – January 2015.
Scope :
To conduct a research targeting 12,000 people as the overall sample for selecting 8,000 people with the following details:
-4000 working women between age 31–50.
-4000 unemployed youth between age 16–30 (2400 female and 1600 male).
The 8000 people will be trained and qualified in the small and micro enterprises to enable them to make their own business.
The Primary Objective:
1. Enhancing access to non-public school education.
2. Offering vocational training for the youth at the targeted areas.
3. Facilitating training for working mothers.
4. Granting microfinance to targeted groups.
5. Capacity building of VOLIP beneficiaries.
