CONCEPT NOTE FOR CANADIAN FUND FOR LOCAL INITIATIVES.

PROJECT CONCEPT NOTE: On Women and Girls Capacity Building on

entrepreneurship in Unity/Bentiu state- South Sudan.
NAME OF ORGANIZATION: Agency for Women and Children Development (AWACD)
“Woman is the root and the Child is the power”

ADDRESS OF ORGANIZATION:
HEAD OFFICE: Tongpiny Residential area near TM Lion Hotel
Juba-South Sudan
TEL: +211917090780
OFFICIAL EMAIL: awacd10@gmail.com/ info@awacd-ssd.org

APRIL 22, 2021

APPLICANT INFORMATION

Name of applicant organization/group

Legal Status: Agency for Women and Children Development (AWACD) is
a non- profit, non-government, women-let socio-
economic development organization, this is correctly
reflected in the arrangement of Board of Directors and its
registered under the Government of Republic of South
Sudan,(RRC) with registration number (2768) in February
2020.
Project Name: Women and Girls Capacity Building on entrepreneurship
in Unity/Bentiu state- South Sudan.
Project Location: Mayiandit county-Unity state/Bentiu
Project Duration: One year
Contact person William Puok Ruach CHANY
Phone/Email Tel: +211921218606/awacd10@gmail.com/info@awacd-
ssd.org
Website or social media account links www.awacd-ssd.org https://www.facebook.com/AWACD
1. Brief description of the applicant organization/group:
Agency for Women and Children Development (AWACD) is a non- profit, women-let socio-
economic development organization established in South Sudan since 2016. AWACD
is dedicated to serve and bring about sustainable changes, particularly in the livelihood of
women, children and that of poorest community at large through integrated community
development programs which include capacity building on entrepreneurship.
2. Have you received funding from the CFLI Fund in South Sudan previously (Y/N)?
AWACD never received fund from CANADIAN Fund for Local initiatives, however. It previously
implemented and managed the small funds from different sources.
3. What is your current annual budget?
Please list the projects you have implemented and any funding or support received in the past
3 years below.

Name of Project Brief Description Amount Location Dates of Donor/Partner

of implementatio
Fundin n
g
Community ICT One ICT training 15,000 Juba, December Individual and
Hub/Training /information center USD Tongpign, 2019-April 2021 local authority
center in Juba for women, girls South contribution.
and unemployed Sudan
youth was set up.
Women, Girls & 10 women, 10 girls 5,000 Juba February 2020 Individual
Unemployed and 10 unemployed USD contribution
youths’ Male were trained with small
entrepreneurship for Two months on support from
and Digital entrepreneurship. local authority
literacy training
conducted in
Juba.
Women 20 women and 10 5,000 Rubkuay, May, 2020 Individual
Entrepreneurship girls were trained Mayiandit contribution
and sustainable on business with small
development entrepreneurship support from
training Unity local authority
state.
Seminars on 500 universities 2,500 Juba February, 2021 Individual and
business and students attended USD university
entrepreneurship seminars on contribution
to students of Business and
Catholic and entrepreneurship.
Kampala
University, Juba-
South Sudan…
4. Thematic Priority:

 Training women and unemployed youth on entrepreneurial skill.

 Vocational skills training.

 Help the startup entrepreneurs in revolving and mobilizing fund from different sources
for their entrepreneurial activities.
5. Context/Background of Project

The capacity building project of women, girls and unemployed youth on entrepreneurship will
be implemented on the outskirts Rubkuay payam Mayiandit County, the same project will also
be replicated and implemented in Tutnyang payam, Mayiandit County of Unity state/ Bentiu-
South Sudan. AWACD happened to choose these two payams because large population among
women, girls as well as unemployed youths in these payams are facing extreme livelihood and
economic challenges caused by the lack of unemployment and capacity to mobilize resources
through entrepreneurial activities. People living in these areas are in condition of extreme
poverty and consequently they have no possibility to afford the costs of basic needs, such as
shelter, education, healthcare and food simply because they don’t have access the public
services nor capacity to establish their own business.

Rubkuay and Tutnyang payams in Mayiandit County are small slum areas in rural area of Unity
state/Bentiu, South Sudan. Unity State is the subject of social mapping for a variety of reasons.
it is one among 10 state of South Sudan, it is better known as one of the three conflict-affected
states in the country. Due to its geographic location and association with the Greater Upper
Nile region. It covers an area of 38,837 sq km (14,995 sq mi) and is inhabited predominantly by
two ethnic groups – the Nuer and small population of Dinka. Its economy is primarily
agricultural but it is also rich in oil resources

Problem to address
The women and youth are seriously affected by the economic and social problems. The
economic problem is lack of employment opportunities and inadequate capacity in business
and entrepreneurship to establish their own source of incomes. Even though youth especially
girl’s population is dominant in the town, there are no enough jobs to absorb them and there is
very high unemployment. As a result, the women and girls do not able to cater for their
households need and end up in sever food insecurity since there is no other copying
mechanism to support their families. Both women and unemployed youth do involve in illegal
activities such as chewing chat (local stimulant plant), drinking alcohol, cattle raiding properties
theft, gangsters, kidnapping and so on to sustain their lives. All these social habits and bad
practices caused by lack of access to required capacity and skills for coping mechanism with the
situation affecting them etc.
 6. Description of Action:

The overall objective of this project is to create an enabling environment and improve the
living standards of people living in slums and marginalized areas through entrepreneurship skills
training and support for the women and unemployed youth of Rubkuay and Tutnyang payams
in Mayiandit of Unity state/Bentiu so that they can be self - dependent, contribute to the
development of the area and be an active participant in development effort of the nation.
Specific objectives are to inculcate entrepreneurial skills in the women, girls and youth, to make
them self-employed, and initiate the girls and youth to be engaged in sporting activities, small
business (micro-credit revolving fund), vocational skills training, CT enterprises and other
similar innovative and creative projects.
AWACD dedicate its time and effort to be a part of the Solution affecting these vulnerable
women and youths, however the organization does not have enough financial resources to
fulfill its mission and objective. But it has a strong team of human resources who are well
qualified and experienced to project implementation. The organization follows regular
monitoring, sharing experiences and immediate action for the successful implementation of the
activities. AWACD target the most rural villagers to ensure its support to develop of the women,
unemployed youths and children to building their skill and capacity.
In this project, our targeted beneficiaries are unemployed women, girls and other youth who
are unemployed and don’t have skills to start their own businesses. Some of the women and
girls may have minimum education but they lack minimum skill and knowledge required to get
the employment opportunity or to create self-employment for their livelihood sustainability
through entrepreneurship activities

Project outcomes:
The main benefit and outcomes of these project to both women and youths includes.
Women and youth will be able to have skills and capacity to enable them for job employment
opportunities or to create their own jobs. Most of the women and youth in town will be skilled
and have the required enterprise development knowledge, petty trading and related activities.
After the skill training and with the help of the organization they will be able to envisaged and
mobilize startup capital.
For Vocational training activities women and youth and orphans will be able to have capacity in
vocational service especially in carpentry, computer maintenance, tailoring, hairdressing,
catering, masonry and brick laying, welding and electrical work.

7. Planned activities:
Table 1: Activities Breakdown
S/NO Activities Unit Quantity Remark
1 Training in entrepreneurial skills No of women in 500
 Establishment of training and vocational both payams.
center
 Beneficiaries’ identification
  Forming groups SACCOs No of Girls in both 200
 startup business training payams.
 Computer training
 Micro credit soft loans mobilization
 Internet services
 Small home agricultural activities Other unemployed
300
 Cinema shooting and production youth

 Training and support on professional

tailoring, hairdresser, crafts, informatics,
metal fabrication and carpentry

2 Supporting beneficiaries in petty business Classes

identification, small Business Centers
Construction “ 2
 Cafeteria “ 20
 Shops “ 2
 Sport center / youth sport center “ 2

 Information center i.e. cultural heritage 2

and tourism promotion services, and

marketing rural agricultural products
though internet
 Film show center
 A library
3 Support in mobilization of Provision of credit to
those engaged in small scale business
 Café service “
 Shop trading “
 Sport center “

 Information center “

 Film Show center

 Small agricultural activities
4 Support in Provision of sporting materials No-of team
 Football team 2
 Volley ball team “ 2
 Table tennis “ 1
5 To improve the capacity of the staff of local
NGOs, FBOs and CBOs
6 To promote community development No. of projects
7 Support HIV/AIDS affected families’ orphans No. of HIV/AIDS 20
supported AIDS
orphans families
8 Employment of project personnel No 2
Employing of project coordinators

Activities of the project

1. Training the women and youth on entrepreneurial skills.
2. Establishing recreation and business centre.
3. Support in provision of credit services.
4. Provision of sporting materials and run sport activities.
5. Forming youth’s network of Savings and Credit Cooperative Societies (SACCOs)
6. Civic education and leadership training
7. Computer training
8. To run professional trainings (tailoring, hairdresser, crafts, informatics, cinema shooting
and production)
9. To promote community development through support to local community initiatives to
improve the standards of living of the population.
10. To run vocational skills training (metal fabrication, ICT, carpentry, tailoring, saloon).
11. To empower local communities to search for and identify ways of addressing their
developmental needs through educating and supporting women and young people to
become effective agents of change.
12. To promote gender equality through equally participation in all development activities.
13. To support HIV/AIDS orphans affected families.
8. Gender based analysis
The main target and core of this projects are the women and girls since they are the most
vulnerable elements in the societies. Women and girls are affected by the economics
situations more than men because they are being neglected in most of the social economics
development activities being implemented.
In this project most of the target direct beneficiaries are female which make the total number
of 700 Female (Women and girls).

9. Budget Required:
The budget breakdown

NO Activities Unit Amount in Remark

USD ($)
1 Establishment of training centers 2 2,000 Two
Payam.
Training in entrepreneurial skill 1000 8,000
 Establishment of training and People
vocational center
 Beneficiaries’ identification
 Forming groups SACCOs
 startup business training
 Computer training
 Micro credit soft loans mobilization
  Internet services
 Small home agricultural activities
 Cinema shooting and production
 Training and support on professional
tailoring, hairdresser, crafts,
informatics, metal fabrication and
carpentry
3 Support and contribute in Provision of credit to
those engaged in small scale business
 Café service.
 Shop trading 2,500
 Sport centre “ 2,500
 Information centre “ 1,000
 Film Show centre “ 2,500
 Small agricultural activities “ 2,500
 Vocational training projects 2,000
4 Supporting orphan’s families 5,000
9 Computers 8 4,000
Printer 2 800
Generator 2 2,000
10 Provision of sporting materials 2,000
 Football team / women soccer team “
 Volley ball team
11 Monitoring and evaluation “ 1,000
12 Photocopy materials and publication ‘’ 1,000
13 Equipment
1. 2 Sewing machines 2 1,500
2. 2 Sets of construction work tools 2 1,500
3. 2 Sets of hairdressing tools 2 1,500
4. 2 Carpentry tools 2 1,500
5. 2 Welding & electrical work 2 2,000
14 Transportation of the project materials 1 3,000
Grand Total Requested $49,800

William Puok Ruach CHANY

Executive Director
Agency for Women and Children Development (AWACD)

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