Make Every Woman Count

This blog post, "Does Cascading Training in Development Work?" was written by WIEGO's Global Trade Program Director, Elaine Jones.

There is a saying that “if you train a woman, you train a village,” and this is certainly true on this coffee-growing mountain, where two organizations—Women in Informal Empoyment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) and the Gumutindo Coffee Cooperative have teamed up to offer trainings that help 800 women address the fact that many women producers in Uganda remain unaware of  their rights, are largelyunrepresented in consultations and policy forums, and are under-represented in governance structures.