What We Do

Empowering women through strategic programs focused on education, economic growth, and institutional change.

Our Strategic Focus

The Liberia Women Empowerment Project (LWEP) focuses on five key components designed to address the complex challenges facing women and girls in Liberia. These components — Social Empowerment, Education & Skills, Economic Empowerment, Institutional Strengthening, and Monitoring, Learning, and Management — provide a holistic pathway to equality, resilience, and sustainable development.

Component 1: Fostering Positive Social Norms and Community Mobilization

This component addresses harmful gender norms and fosters community support for women's empowerment. Using the SASA! Together methodology developed by Raising Voices, LWEP engages communities to shift attitudes, prevent gender-based violence (GBV), and promote gender-equitable behaviors. It lays the foundation for all project interventions by building trust, awareness, and a shared vision for change.
Key activities include:
- Community mobilization and orientation
- SASA! Together training and rollout
- Awareness campaigns on GBV prevention and gender equality

Component 2: Enhancing Basic Services in Health and Education

LWEP pilots’ health and education sector improvements to expand access to Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (ASRH) and GBV services, especially for girls and young women. It also supports school-driven community engagement to challenge early marriage, adolescent pregnancy, and barriers to girls’ education.
Key activities include:
- Community-based GBV and ASRH service delivery
- School-based norm-shifting dialogues and clubs
- Training and referral support for frontline health and education workers

Component 3: Promoting Resilient Livelihoods through Community-Led Approaches

This component empowers women economically by supporting individual and group-based income-generating activities. Through access to livelihood grants, business training, credit services, and life skills development, LWEP helps women build sustainable livelihoods and strengthen their voice and agency in household and community decision-making.
Key activities include:
- Disbursement of livelihood grants to 36,000 women
- Business and packaging training
- Access to credit and savings groups
- Gender-transformative life skills programming

Component 4: Strengthening Institutional Capacity and Multi-Sectoral Coordination

Component 4 enhances government systems and institutional capacity to sustainably support women’s empowerment. It fosters data collection, monitoring, and multi-stakeholder coordination to close gender gaps in public service delivery.
Key activities include:
- Training of over 200 government employees in M&E and knowledge management
- Establishment of a multi-sectoral coordination platform
- Gender-sensitive data systems and policy advocacy

Component 5: Project Management, Monitoring, and Learning

This cross-cutting component ensures effective project delivery through robust planning, coordination, monitoring, and knowledge-sharing mechanisms. It supports ongoing learning, adaptive management, and accountability to project stakeholders and beneficiaries.
Key activities include:
- Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) systems
- Grievance Redress Mechanism (GRM) across 498 communities
- Learning forums and impact assessments

Cross Cutting Commitment

Each component integrates the following cross-cutting priorities:

Gender Equality

Embedded in all project levels

Youth Inclusion

Tailored programs for adolescent girls

Climate Resilience

Integrating sustainability into women-led enterprises

Disability Inclusion

Ensuring accessibility in services and opportunities