On the 3rd of November, 2022 Africa Centre for Human Rights and Sustainable Development with funding from the Netherlands embassy, organized a one day capacity building training in life skills for women and girls operating small businesses in the Nadowli Kaleo District.
During the opening ceremony of the one day training program, Madam Bernice Naah, Executive Director of AfCHuRSD said the training was aimed at providing basic financial literacy such as record keeping, customer service, savings culture and the processes involved in accessing credit facilities as well as provide knowledge and skills to improve beneficiaries farming activities. She said participants should not be afraid to access credit once they have a sound business idea and also urged them to take steps in registering their businesses so that they could be linked up with financial institutions for credit facilities.
Mr George Bagooro, the district manager for the Sonzele Rural Bank in Nadowi took participants through book keeping. How to identify a potential viable business, processes involoved in accessing credit from financial institutions and how to efficiently manage funds to experience growth in their businesses.
Mr Kyegnye Abdulai, Agric Extension agent also took participants through improved farming skills and advised them to join PWDs farmer groups in the district in order to learn more.
Madam Cathrine Lankono, the District Chief Executive for the Nadowli Kaleo District, who was present at the training, lauded AfCHuRSD and its partners for organizing the training for the women and girls with disabilities in her area. She said the training on book keeping would go a long way to help beneficiaries in the efficient management of the 3% DACF they accessed to start their businesses. She made mention that in the district, the fund was lodged directly into the PWD’s account to promote easy accessibility. She said based on past experiences where beneficiaries failed to invest the funds they accessed in their businesses, they now sought to purchasing whatever items are needed and help set up the business for them. With this strategy, most of the PwDs in the district that accessed the fund are doing well in their businesses and with the business management skills training they have received from AfCHuRSD, would go a long way in the efficient management of the funds in order to experience growth in their businesses.
At the end of the implementation of this activity, AfCHuRSD in collaboration with the social welfare department at the Nadowli District Assemly, had trained 50 women and Girls with disabilities in financial literacy skills in the Nadowli Kaleo District of the Upper West Region.
Facilitators:
Mrs. Veronica Togbe
Mr. Boama B. King Agric Extension Officer
Mr Kyegnye Abdulai Agric Extension Agent
Mr George Bagooro District Manager Sonzele Rural Bank Nadowli
