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- Propcom Mai-karfi
Empowering women in the rice parboiling business
Propcom and its partners worked with more than 4,000 poor rural women to help organise them into groups and form mutually beneficial linkages with rice traders.
The partners empowered women with activities to strengthen their leadership, negotiation, business management and record-keeping skills. The results show what can happen when poor women have a chance to take an active lead in value addition.
About Propcom Mai-karfi
Promoting Pro-poor Opportunities in Commodities and Service Markets (Propcom) Mai-karfi began in 2012, supported by DFID. It aimed at increasing the incomes of 650,000 poor men and women in Northern Nigeria.