GENDER EQUALITY
What’s the goal?
To achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.
Targets include eliminating discrimination and violence against women and girls, valuing unpaid care and domestic work, ensuring the full participation of women in the economy and equal access for them to resources (including access to reproductive healthcare).
Our contribution
The principle of gender equality is incorporated in all three AECI SED funds. All our programmes promote the empowerment of women and girls. We have five strategic partners who have this as their core focus:
Empowering the Girl Child programme, in partnership with Child Welfare South Africa
Connect-Ed.
Unjani Clinic.
Siyabonga Africa, a skills development and income generation programme for women.
WWWC, four cooperatives registered with women as majority owners:
• Success Arts and Craft Cooperative
- Ownership: 81% women
- Management: 100% women
- Employees: 27, of whom 22 are women
• Ladies Future Poultry Cooperative
- Ownership: 100% women
- Management: 100% women
- Employees: five, all of whom are women
• Umanyano Agriculture Production Cooperative
- Ownership: 60% women
- Management: 100% women
- Employees: five, of whom three are women
• Environ Care Management Systems
- Ownership: 60% women
- Management: 60% women
- Employees: 12, of whom eight are women
