Conducting a Gender Analysis - How it can help your organization and how to do it 

Do you want to find ways to improve your business? 

To improve the retention rate and increase innovation by employees?
Expand and/ or diversify its customer base? Increase sales? Improve customer loyalty?
Unlock funding? Reach more suppliers and business partners?

A Gender analysis is a process that can help you identify ways to improve business in those areas. 

WIN's latest guide, Conducting a Gender Analysis - How it can help your organization and how to do it is the third part of the Gender Equality Series tools designed to help companies be more gender inclusive.

This guide will tell you: What a Gender Analysis is all about and what businesses can learn from it Why should your business conduct a gender analysis, How it can benefit your business.

Click here to read and download the tool.

Let's Celebrate the Success of Mozambican Women with WIN Program

To celebrate Mozambican Women's Day, WIN Program is pleased to share 7 inspiring stories of women who have been impacted by projects carried out with WIN's partner organizations. See the photobook here.

 Together with our partners we have impacted over 18,251 women for greater economic empowerment and over 47,179 women are adopting new business practices.

 Follow these and more inspiring stories of Mozambican women on WIN's Facebook page, and share!

Happy April 7th, Mozambican Women's Day!

Invitation: Workshop "Creation of a Gender Equality Policy

The WIN Program is organizing a workshop on May 5th from 9am to 12pm at the BCI Auditorium in Maputo on the first tool: "Creating a Gender Equality Policy - How it can help your organization and how to do it".  The participating companies will learn: 1) the importance of having a gender policy for better company performance, 2) how to create a gender policy and 3) how to create an action plan and leave the workshop with it.

If you are interested in participating, please CLICK HERE to apply.

* A maximum of 2 people (must be Board members) per company can apply

* Deadline for applications is 5:00 pm on April 22, 2022.

The workshop is free, but places are limited!

Business Clinic – Broadcasting Good Business Practices

In 2020, WIN Program jointly with TV Sucesso, created a 15-minute segment in the most popular sunday program "Mozambique in Concert", called "Business Clinic". The main objective was to transmit good business practices given by different consultants each week, to micro-entrepreneurs participating in the segment. In terms of overall audience, the segment reached about 196,000 women and 116,000 men who watched the segment.

To learn more about the audience impact click here.

A “Radionovela” Role Model Inspires Women Entrepreneurs in Mozambique

A special radio program in Mozambique is helping women gain the skills and confidence to break business barriers. Janete, a character in a radio drama who transmit the daily life of a young female entrepreneur in Mozambique.

Broadcast in four languages throughout Mozambique, Janete was developed as part of the Women IN Business Program to promote women's economic empowerment. This "radionovela" represents the very real challenges that women entrepreneurs around the world face every day.

For women to make progress in their businesses, they need not only better access to business training, but also support in dealing with restrictive gender norms. As part of its larger effort to support women entrepreneurs in Mozambique, WIN sought to address both of these challenges through a radio drama.

To learn more how WIN Program through the "radionovela" Janete, taking an "edutainment" approach helps Mozambican women acquire better business skills while breaking harmful gender stereotypes please see here.

A new sales channel for Nestlé and an opportunity for micro-entrepreneurs to improve their sales practices

After being selected for the Magwevas Project (street vendors), a partnership between the Women IN Business Program and Nestlé, Versóvia Nguenha (39) felt a positive change in her life, both personally and professionally. After the training in business techniques under the project, she used the skills acquired to manage her business efficiently. With the sale of Nestlé products she has increased her income and is now able to give her children a better life. See here the story of Versóvia Nguenha, a micro-entrepreneur that sells food products.

Gender Equality in Private Sector in Mozambique

The Women IN Business (WIN) program held a virtual event with the theme Gender Equality in the Private Sector in Mozambique on 09.02.2022 to share the results of a survey carried out in a sample of Mozambican companies to understand the level of gender inclusion . The survey presents the level of gender inclusion practices in 35 interviewed companies and how they are leading gender inclusion in their operations and what strategies they are implementing.

In this webinar, 3 tools created by the WIN program were also presented:

• How to Create a Gender Policy;

• How to Conduct a Gender Training and

• How to Conduct a Gender Analysis, which is yet to be published.

To access the webinar summary and recording please click here

New App Features Help Women Across Mozambique to Control Their Own Savings

After separating from her husband, Albertina Chirindza turned to an innovative digital savings product to help her children get ahead. It’s helped her to diversify her business, buy land, and send her daughter to college.

See here the story of Albertina Chirindza, a single mother of four who, when she separated from the father of her children, had one main objective: to support her children.

Delivering a Gender Awareness Training

How it can help your organization and how to do it

Do you ever wonder how you can get the most from your workforce? Are you looking for ways to decrease absenteeism? Are you having difficulties reaching new customer bases to boost your sales? 

Well, did you know that companies that pay attention to gender can attract and retain more talent and even increase their sales? 

WIN's latest guide, Delivering a Gender Awareness Training - How it can help your organization and how to do it is part of a three-part series of tools designed to help companies be more gender inclusive.

 This guide will tell you: What a Gender Awareness training is all about, Why a company would invest in one and how it will benefit your company.

Click here to download the tool