PROJECT PORTFOLIO
Business Network Strengthening Partnerships
WE Act partners with and supports existing business networks that help young women entrepreneurs build their personal connections and grow their businesses.
Our partnerships focus on:
- Inclusion of diverse group of YWEs so they can become meaningful members of relevant business networks;
- Increasing opportunities for YWEs to be active participants and influencers within the business networks and in their decision-making processes;
- Increasing effective mentorship and coaching opportunities for YWEs through the networks.
YWE Accelerator
Increase the inclusion of more diverse members in CWEA and to enable policy engagement around key issues.
Cambodia Women Entrepreneurs Association
SHE Members Network for Young Women Entrepreneurs
Establish SHE member's network to increase access to training, networking events, and skills-building opportunities.
SHE Investments
Act together, Grow together
Support women and girls with increased access to financing, networking, mentorship, and other services.
Lady Saving Group
Women in New Generation
Increase activity and inclusion of YWEs in JCI’s international network of active youth citizens.
Junior Chamber International Cambodia
Business Networking among Young Entrepreneurs, Startups, and MSMEs
Establish an associate member program to increase female members in YEAC.
YEACBusiness Skills Building Partnerships
WE Act works with organizations that provide high-quality and demand-driven technical assistance and business training programs to young women entrepreneurs.
Our partnerships focus on:
- Ensuring regular, quality, and sustainable delivery of training: providing accessible business skills for target groups of YWEs;
- Providing needs-based technical assistance and coaching for YWEs as a means of enabling learning by doing in complement to training.
Empower Women Entrepreneurship for Active and Collective Trading
Work with the agricultural union to build business skills of urban businesswomen, and establish an entrepreneur hub in Siem Reap.
Community Translation OrganizationSHE Trains the Trainer & Incubator Programs
Provide business incubator trainings to women entrepreneurs, and training of trainers for incubator facilitators.
SHE Investments
Preparing the foundation for innovative & efficient women leaders
Provide training, mentoring and coaching opportunities to aspiring and young women entrepreneurs, and tailored coaching to advanced women entrepreneurs.
SeveaInnovative Civic Engagement Partnerships
WE Act partners with organizations that are promoting meaningful ways for youth and young women entrepreneurs to be engaged about the key issues they are facing in their businesses and elsewhere in their lives.
Our partnerships focus on:
- Establishing or strengthening ‘non-traditional’ platforms or mechanisms that enable youth and YWEs to use their voice about key issues and to be heard by decision-makers.
- Opening up solutions-focused dialogue or other engagement between YWEs and decision-makers around key issues that are impacting young women entrepreneurs.
Amplifying Voices of Young Women with Disabilities
Support YWEs with disabilities to discuss the issues they face, amplify their voices through social media, and raise issues to relevant policy makers.
Agile
Empowering Young Women Entrepreneurs through Messaging Platforms
Pilot online chatbot platform (integrated into Facebook Messenger) to enable youth, and especially YWEs, to raise issues and get real time information around demand-driven topics.
Glean
Entrepreneurship Platform for Engagement and Exchange
Facilitate engagement between multiple government ministries and young start-up entrepreneurs to enable improved mutual understanding of the issues faced by entrepreneurs, and to open dialogue and engagement between startups and government.
Impact Hub Phnom Penh
Raising the Volume
Establish a platform for youth, especially young women, musicians and artists to amplify their voices through music, culminating in a music video campaign that will highlight key issues around women’s empowerment.
Sound Initiative
Online Media for Cambodian Youth
Strengthen Wapatoa’s online media platform that promotes youth-and women-driven content, enabling two-way engagement around a range of youth and young entrepreneur focused issues.
WAPATOAStrengthening Youth Leadership
WE Act partners with organizations that empower youth, and young women entrepreneurs in particular, to be leaders in addressing social and economic issues that are relevant in their lives.
Our partnerships focus on:
- Building youth leaders’ hard and soft skills so young people can more effectively engage with decision-makers and participate in policy formulation;
- Identifying priority issues that affect youth and young women entrepreneurs.
- Supporting youth leaders to influence policy development and promote reform that is responsive to youth needs.
Voices and Action of Young Women Leaders and Entrepreneurs
Support youth to identify key issues related to entrepreneurship in their communities and to take collective action to influence policy around those issues, including addressing issues affecting street and market vendors through collaboration with the Independent Democracy of Informal Economy Association (IDEA).
Advocacy and Policy Institute
Youth Engagement in Social and Economic Decision-making
Support youth and YWE to maintain and expand the space to participate in civic decision-making, by building the capacity of youth leaders around civic engagement, advocacy, and policy development at the sub-national level.
PDP Center