Economic Empowerment

Economic empowerment is the ability to make and act on decisions that involve the control over and allocation of financial resources. To be targeted at ensuring young people and women have the opportunities to learn the skills and get the qualifications they need to succeed in the world of work; 

 

Graduated Children (Orphans)

More than 2.9 billion people - nearly half the world's population - are under the age of 25. Kafalah Indonesia believes it is crucial that these young people have the knowledge and skills to succeed in life if we are to break the cycle of poverty.

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Ensuring all young people, including the most marginalized and disadvantaged, can unlock their potential through access to decent work will drive progress towards sustainable, inclusive development.

 

Mother and girls

In many places, women lag substantially behind men in their access to market opportunities, choice of occupation, and pay.

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Yet today, some 500 million young people in the developing world are un- or under-employed. The situation is particularly difficult for women and girls, who face even greater challenges in securing productive and fulfilling employment than their male counterparts.

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Kafalah Indonesia is committed to tackling this huge problem, by implementing economic empowerment projects, to intervents cluster in three primary focus areas:

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•  Vocational training

includes training in the use of new technologies (e.g., computers), business processes, management of assets (e.g., care and use of livestock), and entrepreneurial skills. These activities are sometimes linked to education programs that focus on “life skills” education for adolescents to improve self-efficacy, decision-making, and risk perception.

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•  Microfinance

provides financial services for low-income and poor women and girls, such as access to savings groups, savings and loans groups, insurance, and microcredit for their income-generating activities or micro-enterprises.

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•  Cash transfers

involve the transfer of cash or other assets and are a form of social protection typically targeted to the poor. These transfers can be contingent on specific behaviors or provided without condition.