Pillar 1 — Socioeconomic Empowerment

  • AIWO-CAN advances Indigenous women’s and girls’ social and economic autonomy through entrepreneurship and vocational training (tailoring, small businesses, farming), food crop agriculture, small ruminant rearing, and scholarship programs for girls. Implemented through a multi-sectoral approach, socio-economic interventions are linked to education, health, and livelihood outcomes to produce holistic and sustainable empowerment.
  • Poverty is addressed as a structural driver of gender inequality and gender-based violence. Strengthening women’s economic resources and opportunities contributes directly to SDG 1 (No Poverty), SDG 4 (Quality Education), SDG 5 (Gender Equality), and SDG 8 (Decent Work), while reducing the conditions that make Indigenous women and girls most vulnerable to exclusion and violence.

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