Promotion of Women’s Rights and Capacity Development project, Sheikhupura
Community Support Concern (CSC) is implementing a project titled “Promotion of Women’s Rights and Capacity Development (continuation), a three-year project (November 2023 to October 2026) in 30 villages of Tehsil Ferozewala and Sharqpur, District Sheikhupura, with the financial assistance of Bread for the World (BRoT). The project’s goalis to contribute to achieve gender equality, economic empowerment to reduce discrimination and violence against women and girls.
For this purpose, a comprehensive capacity building training program designed for local religious leaders, CBOs members, male and female youth to enhance the knowledge and awareness on women’s rights especially legal rights of women. CSC has a mission in this project to rehabilitate the victim women of violence after getting legal assistance. Theatre performances is a very useful medium to raise awareness in large number of community on reducing domestic violence against women through their economic empowerment, the importance of girl’s child education and reproductive health rights.
CSC believes that women empowerment cannot be achieved without economic uplifting of women. The ongoing phase of PWRCD will continue to provide opportunities to rural women and girls to improve technical skills enhancement on artificial jewelry making, beautician, hand/machine embroidery, tie and dye, leather work, etc. Along with skill enhancement, Enterprise Development, Livestock management and kitchen gardening for food security trainings will be organized for them. Enterprise Development Training is an important component to learn basic concept of business just like importance of record keeping, order taking, linkages development, etc for female entrepreneurs. In next three three years CSC’s will also provide assets to women start up their business and livestock (goats and poultry) and seeds will be given to the selected women who will be trained through training program.
