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VSLA-Health, Sanitation & Hygiene Project

Project strategic focus areas:
Sub-Saharan Africa
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VSLA-Health, Sanitation & Hygiene Project

Project strategic focus areas:
Sub-Saharan Africa
Boots on the ground
Project facts
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project
Country
Uganda
Start date
2012-11-01
End date
2014-10-30
Grant amount
USD 85.000
Local partners
Grant recipient
WENIPS, Uganda
Grant manager
Annikka Berridge
Vice Chair

Context

The West Nile Private Sector Development Promotion Center Ltd  (WENIPS) and the National Union of Disabled Persons (NUDIPU).

Objectives

The overall goal of the FAHU/WENIPS VSLA-HSH Project is to provide access to informal financial services (savings, insurance and credit), business skills development, and Aids/HIV, hygiene & sanitation education in order to improve livelihoods of impoverished people in the West Nile region of Uganda

Project Outcome

This project aims to establish 200 village savings and loan groups, foster inclusion of people with disabilities (5%) & women (70%) within those groups; to provide business development training to 2000 group members; to recruit, train and deploy 52 Village Agents to promote self replication and sustainability beyond the project period; to provide educational outreach in HIV/Aids prevention, hygiene & sanitation to 50 groups; and to monitor the project and evaluate its impact utilizing the VSL-MIS.

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