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| Purpose: |
GGEM Services is a non-govermental organization that aims to contribute to the empowerment of women and to improve gender balances in the community and raising their social status. GGEM believes that respect for women and increased self-confidence and independence of women starts with the possibility of earning her own income. GGEM supports the economic empowerment of women entrepreneurs through improved access to services both financial and non-financial. |
| Illustrative Project: |
GGEM has set up gender focused small-scale enterprise and loan programmes for 10 community based organizations, in the western area, Port Loko and the Moyamba district. In 2002 the results of an independent external evaluator from the Netherlands shows that GGEM has indeed achieved the promotion of women's empowerment and strengthened more equally balanced gender relationships in their work areas in relation to the mission statement. GGEM has provided training services to a network of NGO's. Loan repayment stands at 96.8%. |
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