Girl Power Project
Empowering women, girls through social entrepreneurship With the ultimate goal of capacitating CSOs and empowering women and girls through social entrepreneurship, the Girl Power Project geared towards the new year of 2021, and saw significant development in terms of the increased team size with four new members onboarding the project at different domains of project management, marketing, CSO outreach and stakeholder management
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etwork Building with 100 CSOs is the first and foremost step for moving towards reaching out to the project beneficiaries in different parts of the state. The project onboarded 20 CSOs that have worked on various projects of the government with a considerable number of women self- help groups (SHGs) across sectors. These CSOs will act as a support mechanism base for fostering rights and support to women and girls in Jharkhand. It is imperative for the project to
enable and empower 5000 women and girls to become entrepreneurs and establish their business in the social sector. A baseline survey of 3300 women has been completed through a software KoBo ToolBox on various parameters such as demographic profile, asset holding, educational background, primary occupation, entrepreneurship potential and skill building requirements. The baseline survey has covered the identified 10 districts covering four regions of North Chotanagpur, South Chotanagpur, Kolhan and Santhal Pargana division of Jharkhand with 20 blocks, each with
The Girl Power project proposes to use a combination of training, skill building, network formation, policy dialogue and entrepreneurial support to achieve the larger goal of strengthening the ability of Indian civil Society to perform their role as independent agents of change that bring transformation into the lives of women and girls
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a target of reaching out to at least 250 potential beneficiaries. The Women Network for Social Entrepreneurship- Jharkhand has been established to promote multi stakeholder participation in Jharkhand and to identify like-minded people in the sector that can support the project. Vasavi Kiro, a tribal social entrepreneur and founder of Torang Trust who has been identified for WNSE-J, is a source of inspiration to the thousands of women and girl beneficiaries across the state. A knowledge sharing stage in the form of Best Practice forum has been
