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Information Guide

a fund of $380,000 for women

How to be beneficiary?

For groups

  • a minimum contribution amount
  • have at least 15 members and no more than 30

For members

  • be an active member of a given group
  • regularly pay the required contributions
  • repay on time, the credits contracted
  • have an income-generating activity

However these conditions do not all apply at the same time, there may be specific cases

Benefits

Groups can be promoted to the rank of cooperatives and companies or IMFS if they meet the conditions required by the law and regulations on micro-finance of 2017 of the BRB and its implementing texts .

Goals

The services offered have an ultimate goal of:

  • increase access to factors of production;
  • build skills;
  • reduce the overload of household work;
  • promote participation in decision-making bodies;
  • strengthen access to social protection;
  • strengthen the legal and legal framework;
  • strengthen implementation coordination and monitoring and evaluation mechanisms;
  • sharing knowledge and building capacity to access opportunities; and
  • strengthen the legal framework for the protection and decision-making capacity of women, coordination of implementation mechanisms and monitoring and evaluation

Contact information

Ministry of Human Rights, Social Affairs and Gender;
Building Ex-Finances, 1st Floor, Number 30;
BP: 2690 Bujumbura - Burundi
Phone: +257 22246924
Email: mdphas@gmail.com

Women's Economic Empowerment Program

According to the national evaluation report on the implementation of the Beijing+ declaration and program of action R1325 , Burundian women and girls take part in socio-economic recovery opportunities and benefit from various supports. This is possible thanks to the national program to strengthen the economic capacities of women.

A Guarantee Fund of $380,000 for women

As part of this capacity building program, the Government of Burundi, in collaboration with its partners such as UNDP , WFP, UNFEM, UNFPA, the World Bank - has set up a guarantee fund to facilitate women's access to credit with a view to their empowerment. This fund currently stands at 380,000 US dollars nbsp .

The government of Burundi has in fact set up since 2014, two mechanisms to help the poor rural population in order to enable them to access credit: the Guarantee Fund for the rural world (FG) and Microcredit for the economically poor. assets (MCPEA). This guarantee fund, which mainly targets associative groups, also helps in setting up VSLAs.

Fund managers

This guarantee fund is housed and managed in micro-finance institutions - MFIs such as:

  • CCEEM,
  • WISE,
  • COSPEC,
  • DUKUZE MICROFINANCE,
  • ITEKA MICROFINANCE,
  • FENACOBU

gender equality

Burundi has a ' National Women's Economic Capacity Building Program' whose objective is to align with objective 5 of the Sustainable Development Goals (DDs ) which targets gender equality and the empowerment of women. women and girls.

This program supports women in the areas of:

  • technical,
  • administrative,
  • structural,
  • organizational and logistical
  • access to inputs; and
  • assistance in setting up plans, budgets, proposals for monitoring the implementation and management of the women's economic empowerment process.
angle-left Women's empowerment and quotNational Program for Strengthening Women's Economic Capacity 2019-2027, Bujumbura, BURUNDI July, 2019quot

Women's empowerment and quotNational Program for Strengthening Women's Economic Capacity 2019-2027, Bujumbura, BURUNDI July, 2019quot

Burundi's women's empowerment program is formulated in a document (alongside references on current national policies and strategies) titled 'National Women's Economic Capacity Building Program'

The goal of this program (which aligns with Goal 5 of the SDGs ) is to achieve gender equality and empower women and girls. The program will contribute to strengthening women's access to resources by offering promotional services (political, economic, structural, organizational) for the empowerment of women, by facilitating and enabling:

      • Increase access to factors of production
      • Building women's skills
      • Alleviate women's excessive housework
      • Promote participation in decision-making bodies
      • Strengthen access to social protection
      • Strengthen the legal and legal framework
      • Strengthen implementation coordination and monitoring/evaluation mechanisms
      • Sharing knowledge and building capacity to access opportunities
      • Strengthening of the legal framework for the protection and decision-making capacity of women
      • Coordination of implementation and monitoring/evaluation mechanisms

Within this very framework, the ministry's department for the promotion and empowerment of women is in the process of nationalizing the NAZE NUZE approach adopted by the government of Burundi in 2017 for the structuring and organization of communities in self-development groups and associations.

Activities

The implementation of this program is supported and carried out by:

  • The establishment and management of the guarantee fund,
  • Supervision of VSLAs
  • Monitoring and evaluation of these.
  • etc.

Guarantee fund

The Government, in collaboration with its partners in this program such as UNDP , WFP, UNFEM, UNFPA, the World Bank - WB have offered a guarantee fund to facilitate women's access to credit for their empowerment. .

This guarantee fund for associative groups also helps in the establishment of VSLAs by the ministry and is housed and managed in micro-finance institutions - MFIs: CCEEM, WISE, COSPEC, DUKUZE MICROFINANCE, ITEKA MICROFINANCE, FENACOBU etc... .

Implementation and management of VSLAS

Alongside Care Internationale, FVS-AMADE, HelthNet TPO and the WB, the Government of Burundi via the Department for the Promotion and Empowerment of Women is indeed helping to set up VSLAS. This activity is carried out and facilitated through the CDFCs in all areas and communes of the country. The CDFCS becoming, de facto, the focal points for these groups. Within this framework of partnership, the UNDP also has a support project for the socio-economic empowerment of women. The directorate of the Ministry in charge of empowerment is then responsible for monitoring, supervision and evaluation through the strengthening of the technical and financial capacities of the VSLAS.

Program Membership

The program is initiated at the Ministry level as an implementation of the national policy. There is therefore no prerequisite for joining this program as is the case for groups and VSLAS.

Prerequisites

Indeed, as far as groups and village savings and credit associations are concerned, a minimum amount of contribution is required and it is also required that the group has at least 15 members and at most 30 members. It is then necessary to be a member, to regularly pay the contributions and reimbursement required, to have a remunerative activity etc…. However, these conditions do not all apply at the same time because there may be specific cases.

Groups can be promoted to the rank of cooperatives and companies or IMFS if they meet the conditions required by the law and regulations on micro-finance of 2017 of the BRB and its implementing texts .

Other services

The Ministry also plans to organize events to raise awareness and promote the program with women and any stakeholders in the field, in addition to validation sessions for the reference document for the program in question.

Address

The physical address of MSNDPHG is located in Bujumbura in the building of the former Ministry of Finance in Bujumbua on Rumonge Road.

The initiator of the program ie. the Ministry of National Solidarity, Human Rights and Gender via Ms. Director Ahishakiye Claudine (tel +25776800870) can provide more information on the program and its genesis indeed.

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