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Purpose

The project aims to impower women and girls between the ages of 15 and 40 years old working in the informal economy sector and living in the urban and peri-urban areas of the departments of Cortés, Atlantida and Francisco Morazan, Honduras. The project also works to reduce poverty and increase the well-being of the targeted women, thereby strengthening their social and political power. This ultimately contributes to reducing poverty for their families, communities and the general population. Project activities include: (1) providing training to approximately 3,000 informal economy workers (of which 80% are women) on their basic rights, including the reproductive and sexual rights of women and girls; (2) organizing a three-party seminar to advance legislative bills to better support and protect the women and men working in the informal economy sector; (3) providing leadership and communications training to 2,500 women and girls in the informal economy sector; and (4) providing training to trainers on strategies to empower women and girls of 150 officials from member and affiliated groups of the Federación de Organizaciones de Trabajadores y Trabajadoras del Sector Social de la Economía de Honduras (FOTSSIEH).