Kenya
Buildher
Breaking gender norms by providing community development, work readiness, life skills, vocational skills and job support for women to secure employment in construction.
Partner:
GiveDirectly.
About the project:
Through Buildher’s technical training and employment program and GiveDirectly’s cash-transfers, the project aims to improve the economic inclusion and workforce readiness of socioeconomically disadvantaged women, while promoting gender equality in Kenya’s male-dominated construction sector. The project will combine vocational and life skills training with unconditional cash that enables women to complete their training and access high-demand employment opportunities.
About the organizations:
Buildher equips women in Kenya with accredited construction skills leading to greater financial prosperity, changing male attitudes and promoting gender equality within the construction industry. They support Kenyan women to create safe, inclusive, resilient and sustainable cities with women, for women, by women.
GiveDirectly provides unconditional, direct cash transfers, which give people living in poverty the autonomy and dignity to decide how best to improve their lives. Their evidence-based cash transfer model provides a benchmark against which other interventions can be evaluated.
