Women Leading for Livelihoods (WLL)

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; when given 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 cover everything from language and literacy training to vocational and skills training as well construction of micro-credit and small business centres, where conditions permit.