What actually gets in the way
Distance, timing, safety and paperwork.
When a woman does not join a training programme, the reason is almost never motivation. It is that the venue is an hour away on an unsafe route, or the class runs at the exact time domestic and care work happens, or there is nowhere for a small child to be.
Programmes that treat this as a confidence problem fail. Programmes that treat it as a scheduling, location and logistics problem work. We build for the second.
- Training scheduled around real days, not institutional convenience
- Provision located close to where women already are
- Safety treated as a design input, in transit and on site
- Households engaged as participants rather than obstacles
- Home-based and flexible enterprise treated as a real outcome
- Help with ID, bank accounts and documentation in her own name