WELCOME TO THE ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN EMPOWERMENT CAMEROON

Empowering Women, Prospering Humanity

The Association for Women Empowerment Cameroon ( AWEC) Established in 2012, is a women’s non-profit and awareness-raising organization working with and for women and young girls’ economic empowerment in all spheres of life.

About us

Our Mission

Promote Entrepreneurship among Women

Enhancing the Status of Women

Develop successful models of Entrepreneurship

A.W.E.C seeks to be the driving force for not only business through initiative women empowerment but to also be a good example, develop successful models of entrepreneurship for emulation worldwide.

Our Mission

Promote Entrepreneurship among Women

Enhancing the Status of Women

Develop successful models of Entrepreneurship

A.W.E.C seeks to be the driving force for not only business through initiative women empowerment but to also be a good example, develop successful models of entrepreneurship for emulation worldwide.

Active Team Members

Volunteers

Over 2400000

is being raised annually

More than 65

Projects have been executed

Active Team Members

Volunteers

Over 2400000

is being raised annually

More than 65

Projects have been executed

WHAT WE DO

ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Entrepreneurship provides the best way to be economically empowered. And the best part about being an entrepreneur is the flexibility to work and operate a business at your convenience. In fact, with the ever-growing tech start-up market across the world, there are even more resources available for entrepreneurs and alike, making it easier and faster to launch a business.

Develop gender-sensitive multisectoral programs and strategies to end social subordination of women and girls and to ensure their social and economic empowerment and equality.

Ensure women’s equal access to economic resources, including land, credit, Science & technology, vocational training, information, communication, and markets, as a means to further the advancement and empowerment of women and girls, including through the enhancement of their capacities to enjoy the benefits of equal access to these resources, inter alia, by means of international cooperation Promote women’s economic independence, including employment, and eradicate the persistent and increasing burden of poverty on women by addressing the structural causes of poverty through changes in economic structures, ensuring equal access for all women, including those in rural areas, as vital development agents, to productive resources, opportunities, and public services

Women empowerment through entrepreneurship

AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SECURITY

End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture

AWEC seeks to end hunger in poverty-stricken regions of Cameroon and to also assist people in poor and vulnerable situations including infants to safe nutritious and sufficient food all seasons. The goal of our organization is to achieve a comfortable and more stable environment by 2030. We ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding, and other disasters, and that progressively improve land and soil quality.

Ambition for the future

A.W.E.C The place where Women Discover the Value to make Impact
Adopt measures to ensure the proper functioning of food commodity markets and their derivatives and facilitate timely access to market information, including on food reserves, in order to help limit extreme food price volatility.
End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere.
Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation.
Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child abuse, early marriage and female genital mutilation.
Undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance and natural resources, in accordance with national laws

CLIMATE CHANGE AND SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENT

Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

The Association for Women Empowerment Cameroon is deeply concerned about Climate change and therefore aims to strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries. We also assist in Improving education, awareness-raising, and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation,
adaptation, impact reduction, and early warnings. The faith of the earth we believe lies in our responsibility to manage earth’s natural resources, bearing in mind the future consequences.

A.W.E.C is Concerned About the Future

AWEC’s Climate Change Programme for Sustainable Environment
Engaging women in projects to augment strategies to scale up climate-smart agriculture Climate change impacts need to be accorded climate justice so as to mitigate the climate change challenges
Work with national ministries to provide high yielding seeds to women farmers. Seeds which are able to withstand continuing climatic challenges such as heavy rains and increasing temperatures.
Constant trainings offered to women farmers in collaboration with national extension workers to enable women farmers to adopt best climate resilient practices.
Work in synergy with national agricultural development organizations and environmental protection bodies to create public awareness about climate change challenges in the national territory and their communities in particular.