At a session to review Plan International Ghana’s Women Innovation and Sustainable Enterprises Project, WISE, in Accra, there were calls by participants for an end to stereotyping women. They believe these stereotypes have held most women back from participating in decision making and achieving their full potential.
Plan International Ghana is implementing the Women Innovation and Sustainable Enterprises project in four of Ghana’s regions – Bono, Bono East, Ahafo and Northern regions. With funding from Global Affairs Canada over fourteen thousand women have already received training in agribusiness and green business value chains under the four-year project. Under the agribusiness value chain they were trained on soyabean cultivation while the green business value chain provided training in mushroom cultivation, snail rearing and bee keeping. At a meeting to review the project the WISE project Manager Madam Rose Aawulenaa said the project is designed to improve the social position of women and increase their control over resources and decision making at the household and community levels.
The Country Director of Plan International Ghana, Mr. Constant Tchona said with a little support women can excel in any field they work in. He called for an end to certain stereotypes that hold women back.
The WISE project is a four-year project to empower women entrepreneurs between the ages of 19 and 55 years in the Bono, Bono East, Ahafo and Northern regions.
Plan International Ghana Wise Project
