Women and youth economic empowerment Programs

The overall objective of economic empowerment program is to promote gender equality, increase household income, reduce poverty and marginalization of women by enabling them to become self-reliant, moreover Maasai women have experienced high levels of marginalization, examples they lack of property ownership (including livestock), high mortality rates, low levels of education, forced marriages, heavy workloads and physical suffering which makes the Maasai women among the poorest in Tanzanian society. ECIO empowering women and youth to take control of their own development through individual income generating activities includes; Agriculture, livestock keeping, small business around their areas. ECIO facilitates in the formation of the income generating groups of women and youth and supporting them with business knowledge that could help them determining and grab the available opportunities around their locality.