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Women Leading for Livelihoods
Making Some Bread
Women Leading for Livelihoods (WLL) is a UNHCR initiative aimed at promoting the economic independence and empowerment of refugee and displaced women and girls around the world. For WLL, women are not victims or passive recipients of aid; with access to the proper resources, they are capable of changing their lives and those of their children, families and communities.
Refugee and displaced women face a series of barriers to work: legal restrictions, physical and psychological trauma, lack of financial resources, child care issues, the wrong skills for their environment, and much more. WLL aims to break down these barriers through the funding of a full range of programmes aimed at empowering refugee and displaced women. Projects range from language and vocational training to classes on farming , marketing and computer literacy as well as basic courses in finance and how to get access to business centres and savings and loan schemes.
Funded WLL projects
Read about projects being implemented thanks to private donations.
- Empowerment via vocational training & income generation, New Delhi, India
- Economic Reintegration of Returnee Women and Girls, South Kivu, DRC: A UNHCR Women Leading for Livelihoods Project
- Youth Skills Training in Ifo Camp, Dadaab, Kenya: A UNHCR Women Leading for Livelihoods Project
- Women Initiative Group Sewing Activities, Georgia: A UNHCR Women Leading for Livelihoods Project
- Subsidized First Job for Resettled Women at Risk in Brazil: A UNHCR Women Leading for Livelihoods Project
Worlds of Women Coming Together
Learn about WLL; what we do, how we work and how to join us.
Published October 2008
Report of the WLL Information Meeting
Illustrated report on the 10 December, 2007 meeting.
Report on meeting with Corporate Networking Group of Women's International Networking (WIN)
Report also available in French on UNHCR's French website here. Read more about the meeting here.
