{"id":8454,"date":"2021-06-27T21:57:54","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T21:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=8454"},"modified":"2021-08-23T09:33:38","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T09:33:38","slug":"cash-and-business-skills-training-support-to-somali-women-headed-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2021\/06\/27\/cash-and-business-skills-training-support-to-somali-women-headed-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Cash &#038; business skills training support to Somali women-headed businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>MOGADISHU &#8212;<\/strong> <\/span>Today marks the International Day of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs). Small businesses led by women and young entrepreneurs continue to face the pandemic&#8217;s wrath economically. Lockdown measures implemented to prevent the spread of the COVID-19\u00a0virus have wreaked havoc on supply chains and resulted in a significant drop in the demand for goods.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Through micro-economic initiatives, the ICRC supports vulnerable low-income families to start, restart or expand existing small businesses that can contribute to their family income, ultimately leading to an improved and sustainable livelihood.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Somalia, the main\u00a0micro-economic initiative\u00a0being implemented is focused on cash support combined with training on business skills that targets vulnerable women-headed households. More than 200 women business owners in Mogadishu received USD 500 dollars and training to improve their businesses this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We feature six\u00a0women-led businesses\u00a0in Hamar Weyne, Mogadishu city.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: ICRC\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Origin: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icrc.org\/en\/document\/somalia-cash-and-business-skills-training-support-women-headed-businesses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener sponsored ugc noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">View original<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU &#8212; Today marks the International Day of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs). Small businesses led by women and young entrepreneurs continue to face the pandemic&#8217;s wrath economically. Lockdown measures implemented to prevent the spread of the COVID-19\u00a0virus have wreaked havoc on supply chains and resulted in a significant drop in the demand for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-development","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8454"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8814,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8454\/revisions\/8814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}