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New Home as GALS as part of Oxfam Novib’s WEMAN programme funded by IFAD. Builds on Trickle-Up 2003. And other Oxfam partners. To GENVAD. And other independent groups like Mwana Mulho.

Bukonzo Joint Cooperative Microfinance (BJ) is a successful member-managed cooperative with a well-established savings and credit programme, and profitable coffee marketing. Bukonzo Joint Cooperative Union started in 1999 with 98% women who were from 11 Savings and Credit self help groups each group were between 15 to 30 members. Bukonzo Joint was one of the original…

GALS Learning Exchange with Muungano Coffee Cooperative from North Kivu, funded by TWIN-UK. The workshop had to be held in Gisenyi, Rwanda because there was too much violence and bombing in DRCongo.

Hand in Hand in Chennai, South India is an international NGO. In 2006 they hosted an international training for gender mainstreaming in micro-finance. GALS explored community indicators of women’s empowerment and happy families.

Jamgoria Sevabrata (JS) is an NGO in West Bengal supporting livelihood development. PALS livelihood planning tools helped Santali tribal women to plan how they would use a grant from Trickle-Up-US to invest in and increase income from different livestock.

ANANDI (Area Networking for Development Initiatives) is a women’s empowerment organisation working with women in tribal, muslim and scheduled caste communities of Gujarat in Eastern India. GALS and PALS tools for gender action research were central to a 2003 participatory review of empowerment achievements of their organisation, focusing particularly on response to the 2001 earthquake…