This initiative aims to improve the economic capacity of internally displaced women, develop their entrepreneurial skills and provide them with mentoring and psycho-emotional support. Also, the NIZHNA project provides non-refundable financial assistance for the implementation of participants' business ideas through competitive selection.
Women and girls who were forced to leave their homes due to the war and now live in one of these communities can participate in the project:
· Poltava;
· Kremenchug;
· Myrhorodskaya;
· Lubenskaya;
· Valkivsk community in Kharkiv region.
Now the participants of the first cohort have already started training. For the second set, the following activities will also be organized during the project:
- two-day training with psychologists to improve the psycho-emotional state;
- online webinar on building effective interaction with local authorities, advocacy of the interests of IDPs;
- two-day training on starting your own business, writing a business plan and developing business skills;
- competition of business ideas with the opportunity to receive financial support and mentoring of the winners for the successful development of their own business.
If you are interested in the offer, you need to register using the links:
- for participation in the Poltava community —https://forms.gle/SzrAPyoR1GtTjk459
- for participation in the Lubansk community —https://forms.gle/a9Q1iCNatCJnrGpw9
- for participation in the Myrhorod community —https://forms.gle/ui2VQJkkAmRqe4qg9
- for participation in the Kremenchuk community —https://forms.gle/YC4Kst7M8CtAyRHn6
- for participation in the Valkivsk community —https://forms.gle/wkYh7mQs9S3SRLH57
Applications will be accepted until March 20, 2025 inclusive. After that, all those who have completed the form will receive notification of the results of the selection within a week.
Participation in the training will take place during March-May in the centers of each of the communities.
Project NIZHNA (Women's Unbreakable Initiative — Persistently and Actively) is being implemented by NGO “Light of Hope” with technical support from UN Women in Ukraine and with the funding of the UN Women's Fund for Peace and Humanitarian Aid (WPHF), a flexible and operational financing instrument supporting quality measures for capacity building local women in conflict prevention, crisis and emergency response and use of key peace-building opportunities.
