Main issues / challenges to which the project intends to respond and main findings related to upstream diagnosis:

In 2018, gender inequalities persist in Morocco as shown in the Global Gender Gap Report which ranks 137th out of 149 countries.

Skills, experiences and expertise of your CSO and the partners involved to answer:

Faced with these challenges, CARE will combine its expertise on gender and female entrepreneurship by partnership with Terre et Humanisme Maroc for agriculture and the environment and Mushmina, (private sector), with regard to marketing but also to textiles.

History and genesis of the project:

With the support of CARE France, CARE Maroc tested the model of Village Savings and Credit Associations, in the Oriental region since 2014. With this experience and requests from the communities, CARE Maroc decided to replicate the experience, by expanding support for the existing ecosystem in the rural region of Marrakech.

Main impacts targeted at the end of this phase (quantitative and qualitative): This project will target 7,553 people including 2,896 women. Main impacts targeted at the end of the project (specify planned duration): 65% of women targeted control productive goods / services and / or technologies and fit into a logic environmental