Build Competencies & Strengthen Skills
LEARNING • CONFIDENCE • RESILIENCE
Skills that unlock opportunity and strengthen families.
Through adult literacy, financial education, and entrepreneurship training, SMWF equips women—and their children—with the competencies required to lead their homes, businesses, and communities with confidence.
Build Competencies & Strengthen Skills Focus Areas
Three connected programs • One systems approach
Adult Reading and Business Math Skills
Raise literacy by 50% in two years
Reading, math, and digital basics unlock pricing power, record-keeping, and leadership in cooperatives.
Leadership and Skills Training
Business, leadership, digital & financial literacy, food hygiene
Short, practical trainings that build confidence and profitability across the market ecosystem.
Early Learning for Kids
Childcare and early learning near markets
Affordable centers that keep children safe and learning while mothers trade and grow income.
Regional Scope & Outcomes
West & East Africa • Systems that scale
Where we work: West Africa (Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Côte d’Ivoire) and East Africa (Uganda, Kenya, South Sudan, Tanzania).
What success looks like:
- Increased municipal and national budget allocations for markets and childcare.
- Stronger policy capacity among women leaders and market associations.
- Thriving women in food systems through finance, training, and infrastructure.
- Digital inclusion for literacy, health, and payments.
- Waste-to-energy and solar pilots powering cold chains and markets.
Join us in building markets that build women.
Your partnership expands finance, skills, childcare, clean markets, and policy voice for thousands of traders.