Our Work
Sustainable Livelihoods
Everyone has dreams, but not everyone has the opportunities to realise them.
Parents have the desire to look after and provide for their children, but many do not have the means by which to do this. We believe that every individual, especially those who are the most vulnerable, should have the opportunity to be able to earn an income and work to improve their own situation in life. We provide training and education to enable people to increase and diversify their incomes. This is to make sure that households are more resilient to economic and environmental shocks. Studies have shown that women are ‘change’ agents as they tend to spend a greater percentage of their income on their household’s welfare than men do. Focusing on empowering women therefore has a multiplying impact on families and the wider communities in which they live. In addition to these approaches, we look to enable market access for business owners through facilitating the set up of cooperatives. In Uganda, this ensures that farmers are growing quality produce, bulk selling and receiving fair prices at market.
Did you know...
- Women are often the most vulnerable and poorest in society. Vocational training can significantly impact women’s empowerment by generating additional income
- Dreams are universal, but opportunity is not
- Roughly half the world’s population still lives on less than £1.50 a day and in many places, having a job does not guarantee the ability to escape poverty
- When one person is trained and equipped to start their own business, they are not only then able to provide for their family, send their kids to school, and start to save some of their income – they may even go on to employ people! The positive impact multiplies
What do we do?
Training
We give vocational training to develop alternative income streams and train entrepreneurs in business management
Partnership
We facilitate responsible peer lending and microfinance and form and strengthen enterprise and savings groups
Selling Produce
We encourage and facilitate market access for small-scale business owners, market systems development with pro-poor business growth and the formation of cooperatives.
Read some of the latest stories below to find out more.
Where We Work
Signpost is currently working within disadvantaged communities, working in partnership to bring about community-driven change.
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25th May 2023Farmer Groups in Aturai & Akulonyo
The Power of Working Together On 1st April 2023, we started a 3 year long project with our partner VAD in Akulonyo and Aturai Villages in the Kapelebyong District, Uganda. The project helps establish farmer groups and supports them to work together for the benefit of the whole community. The…
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24th May 2023Nakwijit Enterprise Project: Meet Ann
Meet Ann! Ann is a farmer and housewife in Nakwijit Village, West Pokot, Kenya. She is married to Tomee Loriong and has 7 children. She is one of 32 women who we supported through an income-generating enterprise in partnership with Centre for Indigenous Child Rights. Ann shares how life…
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17th May 2023Empowering Women in Rural Kenya
Empowering women through income generating enterprise in Rural Kenya Nakwijit Village is an extremely rural area with very little infrastructure. The people who live here are primarily livestock and pastoralist farmers. They frequently relocate to find new water sources for their animals. Due to the nomadic nature of the community,…
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