Wezesha Jamii Women Empowerment Project in Nairobi

SITE Wezesha Jamii was a 4-year {2015-2018} is a capacity building project that was implemented by SITE EP,  Oxfam GB, Youth with Action Kenya {YAK} and National Organization for Peer Educators (NOPE) with  funding from the European Union {EU}. The project targeted 10,000 women domestic workers (WDWs) and  20,000 women small scale traders (WSSTs) in 5 urban informal settlements/slums of Nairobi city. They includes;  Kibra {line7 and Library}, Mukuru {kwa Rueben and Kayaba}, Kawangware, Mathare {Mashimoni and Mulango  Kubwa} and Korogocho and Ngomongo. 

Development {FFD} was identified right at the beginning of the project implementation. The  contract deliverables were to develop 5 training modules, organize a 2 day write-shop for selected women leaders  

of the beneficiaries as well as rolling out 5 training sessions on governance and leadership for leaders of 40 groups with a membership of 1,000 WDWs/SSWTs in the project sites. A one day stakeholder’s workshop was held to  give an opportunity to other project partners to enlist any identified gaps in the capacity building modules. 

The modules included:

  • Corporate group governance,
  • Leadership and management of women domestic workers (WDWs) and women small scale traders  {WSSTs} groups;
  • Members’ services & service delivery to WDWs or WSSTs groups
  • WDWs/ SSWTs rights and obligations;
  • Lobbying, advocacy & networking 

FFD came back in 2018 for mid-term internal evaluation and compiling some success stories before the project terminal evaluation.

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