Through Wamama, CARE will offer its Selection Planning Management (SPM) course to enable community members to more effectively select, manage and plan income generating activities. This will further solidify the foundation upon which the girls and women can launch their economic re-integration. SPM training also includes sessions on savings mobilization or savings and credit associations that builds on the informal ways in which poor people have traditionally pooled their resources. Wakinamama, will use interactive drama as a tool to offer insight to the oppressed and marginalised, especially girls and women, to understand their rights; the barriers that inhibit their progress; the people and the structures responsible and to identify alternatives or remedies.
The project will provide a forum for women to get together and work together for the social and economic rehabilitation of Central Maniema Province, thus improving their livelihood security through participation in income generating and savings mobilisation activities, becoming more aware of their rights and with a secondary effect of the stimulation of local economies.
The project will target girls and women and will include girls and women who have been in the company of or associated with armed groups during the civil strife. The project will target 5,000 households as a working figure therefore approximately 25,000 direct beneficiaries and anticipates reaching a total of 500,000 including indirect beneficiaries.
The project will target geographic zones with factors favorable for income generation; landing sites at the river, railway stations, peri urban villages and commercial centers. Most of the vulnerable households are engaged in mixed cropping on their small land holdings. Almost all agriculture work in the region is manual. Most farmers barely produce enough food for household consumption, with limited excess for sale. The target group is characterized by high birth and infant mortality rates, low levels of education, and relatively low agricultural production. General poor health status is salient in the target group.
