Economic empowerment for women

•Garment Sewing / Fabric Manufacturing 

•Crafting of Jewelry

•Technician Training

•Driving Lessons

•Computer Training

•Media Production Training

•Cosmetics/ Hairdresser Trainin

•Bee Apiculture Training

•Home Economics / Culinary School

•Poultry Breeding Training

•Fish Net Production

•Eritrean Cookstove/ Mogogo Adhanet Training

•Solar System Installation Trainings 

  NUEW’s Credit Program was introduced in 2006 following the evaluation and revision of an earlier version of the project initiated in 1995. 

The Credit Program targets women who have latent potential yet lack resources, and provides those women with professional training and start-up capital. Over 47 million Nakfa has been loaned to nearly 12,000 beneficiaries in four administrative regions of the country. 

Women have registered success in small trades and businesses, agriculture and animal rearing, as well as the catering sector. 

Although women engaged in agriculture and livestock-keeping for many years, they rarely owned land. A few years ago, a new land policy on equal access to land that NUEW advocated for was implemented and women can now own land. 

NUEW and partners such as UNDP have supported the women with funds for farming and livestock-keeping. 

More than 1,400 women farmers have received water pumps to cultivate a collective 153 hectares of land.