Savings Groups ‘Plus’ in New & Emerging Areas of Concern:

Dennis Mello, Global Associate Technical Advisor, PCI, Women Empowered Initiative

CORE Group Meeting Portland, OR May 17, 2016

Addressing Critical Challenges through the Social & Economic Empowerment of Women

• Introduce Project Concern International (PCI)

• Highlight PCI’s flagship women’s empowerment program: “Women Empowered Initiative”

• Feature critical emerging areas of work:

– Urbanization and Citizen Security

– Climate Change Adaptation

– Working amidst Pandemics

• Discussion & Questions

Objectives:

PCI’s WOMEN EMPOWERED INITIATIVE:

…a savings-led microfinance program with strategic integration of economic, human and social capital development, supported by rigorous measurement of the impact.

Active Women Empowered Programs: • United States • Haiti • Guatemala • Nicaragua

• Bolivia • Liberia • Ethiopia • Tanzania

• Malawi • Zambia • Botswana • India

Women Empowered Groups and Multidimensional Programming

Savings groups, ‘plus’: • Equal focus on social and economic empowerment • Social issues discussions • Goal Setting and Action Planning

Urban Resilience

Urbanization

Barrio Mio, Mixco, Guatemala

Citizen Security

RAAN, Nicaragua

Urbanization

Climate Change Adaptation

Bale Robe Oromia, Ethiopia

Bong and Nimba Counties, Liberia

Pandemics

Huehuetenango, Guatemala

Pandemics

Questions

Dennis Mello dmello@pciglobal.org