PROGRAMS

Widowhood and Wife Inheritance

A network of over 1000 widows and 2000 registered orphans and vulnerable children in Okon community, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria.

The Foundation executed the Widowhood and Wife Inheritance projects in Okon community in Akwa Ibom State with support from the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH) and funding from Ford Foundation.

The project was executed with the following objectives:
To sensitize, educate and mobilize men to see widows as legal adults by:

  1. Evolving culture friendly approaches to managing the widow’s estate
  2. Improving gender relations, economic well being and health status of widows
  3. Reducing social rejection of post widowhood children
Mobilizing an articulate group of widows who can actively participate in solving common problems within themselves.

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Micro Credit

Multi Sector Projects Foundation provided Technical Assistance to Okon Widows Network (OWN), Akwa Ibom State, in implementing a Sustainable Development Framework for 2003-2008 program circle.  The Sustainable Development Framework was jointly developed by Multi Sector Projects Foundation, UNICEF, UNDP, Pathfinder, State Government and PATH as a strategic framework to guide Multi year co-coordinated interventions. The Micro Credit Scheme also known as Micro Credit.

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RELATED RESOURCES

Total Credit for Agriculture and Rural development (TOTALCARD)

The project is a sustainable development cluster interventions program addressing financial constraints faced by socio-economic networks. It is a radical financial intermediation program that seeks to reconcile the banking institutions with the poor by working to assist the banks to streamline its operations so as to be poverty friendly.