Training in Business Skills
Business Planning & Idea Generation: We help women identify viable business ideas suited to local markets (e.g., small trading, livestock, grass seed selling, crafts).
Financial Literacy: We Train on basic accounting, budgeting, profit vs cost, tracking expenses and revenues.
Marketing & Customer Relations: We have been Teaching how to reach customers, set fair prices, negotiate, maintain good relations.
Record‑keeping & Monitoring: Ensuring women know how to track their progress, manage cash flow, and assess when to expand or adapt.
Access to Capital / Microcredit or Seed Grants
1. Offering small loans (interest‑free or low interest) or seed grants to allow women start businesses.
2. Circulating funds so that when one group repays, others can benefit.
3. Using group loan models (like VICOBA) to reduce risks.
Mentoring & Follow‑up Support
1. Assigning mentors (experienced entrepreneurs or people with business skills) to guide the women
2. Regular check‑ins to support problem solving, adjustment of business plans.
3. Peer learning: women share experiences, what works and what doesn’t.
Market Linkages
1. Helping women connect to buyers beyond their immediate village markets.
2. Possibly arranging for collective marketing (groups combining produce or products to sell in larger markets).
3. Providing information about demand, quality standards, packaging.
Entrepreneurial Ecosystem & Support Services
1. Supporting women’s groups (cooperatives/VICOBA) so they have organizational structure, governance, by‑laws, rules.
2. Workshops on leadership, confidence building, gender norms, negotiation
3. Legal or regulatory advice (how to register a small business, rights, permits if needed).
Monitoring, Evaluation & Sustainability
1. Measuring outcomes (e.g., number of businesses started, income changes, loan repayment rates).
2. Ensuring sustainability: enterprises that can survive droughts or seasonal fluctuations.
3. Ensuring the program is community‑owned so women can continue after external support.
Naretu Indomonok Women Organization runs entrepreneurship programs across villages in Monduli District (including Esilalei, Baraka, Losirwa). These programs aim to build women’s economic independence through training, access to seed capital, mentorship, and market linkage support
Women are trained in business planning, financial literacy, marketing, and record keeping. To help them start or grow enterprises, the organization provides small, revolving interest‑free loans or grants. Once businesses are underway, ongoing follow‑ups with mentors and peer groups ensure women's skills are strengthened and challenges addressed.
The program also helps women access local markets, combine their products for better negotiation power, and improve quality or packaging to fetch better prices. Through these efforts, many women have been able to increase their income, support their families, and become more confident in their business skills. The program includes measures for sustainability—group ownership, reinvestment, and learning from experience so each cohort improves on the last.