Economic Development Activities

٭ Livelihood and entrepreneurship trainings for women and men
٭ AVAG micro finance programme
٭ Social Enterprise Development

Goals and Objectives

The overall goals of AVAG’s economic development programmes are to establish sound financial practices and linkages with existing financial institutions in order to increase opportunity, strengthen the community’s livelihood base, and support beneficiaries’ integral development.

These economic development goals are targeted through the following objectives:

• To actively encourage savings and provide credit through a revolving fund.

• To disseminate information about and assist SHG’s in accessing credit opportunities through various government and bank schemes.

• To support income generation activities and development of entrepreneurial skills.
• To conduct livelihood trainings, which provides women access to the formal economy and creates conditions for economic independence.