Advancing Women’s Economic Empowerment in Social Protection (AWEESP) is a project aiming at increasing households’ livelihoods and resilience, skills, capacities and agency of the beneficiaries of a Child Grant, a subcomponent of a social protection programme in Mozambique. The initiative uses a Market System Development (MSD) approach to addresses female empowerment barriers and context-specific barriers through implementation of interventions with intentionality leading to change to advance women’s economic empowerment

Objectives: Increase households (child grant recipients) including women access to economic opportunities by enhancing women’s agency, expanding access to relevant financial services (child grant recipients) and skills and capabilities. Other main project objective includes enabling a supportive environment for integration of WEE in child grant by strengthening system actors’ capabilities. 

The AWEESP initiative will deliver a holistic package of interventions across four components: 

Component I: Training and mentoring of vulnerable households for greater agency and livelihood resilience. 

Component II: Access to financial services and non- financial solutions to enhance women’s agency; Component III: Policy and Advocacy of system actors to support WEE; and

Component IV: Data and evidence based to support decision- Making.