South Africa: STEP Training for Young Women

Client: Community Media Trust (CMT)

Donor: US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Duration: 04/2022 to 04/2024

Description of the Project:

The objective of the project was to provide 1,825 young women (aged 15-24) with entrepreneurial skills and knowledge. To achieve this, we cooperated with the local NGO Community Media Trust (CMT) to implement the STEP Training in five different regions of South Africa, some rural and some urban. The training program is an important building block for the economic empowerment and financial independence of vulnerable groups and contributes to CMT’s overall goal of improving the health and human rights of South Africans.

CMT documented a few success stories and the impact of the STEP Training in a brochure that can be downloaded here.