ABOUT US

The project will focus on making fish retailing more profitable by empowering women through technical training, market engagement and business leadership. Targeted value addition opportunities include activities in post-harvest handling (chilling, cleaning,, and grading), in fish processing (degutting, freezing and packaging), fish leather production and associated, in fish marketing, pricing, trade contracting and consignment.

Period of Implementation

Apr 1, 2018 - Mar 31, 2023
Total Budget

USD 494,685.10

OUR IMPACT

Goals

To generate full-time employment for women through the establishment of new women-led enterprises and improve the profitability of existing women retailers.

Objectives

To socioeconomically empower women fish traders in Egypt through provision of training in product development and visibility and the support of community-based market development initiatives in Sharkia governorate.

Problems and Needs Analysis

Since the 1980s, aquaculture production in Egypt has grown rapidly, adding substantially to the supply of affordable fish to domestic markets. As a result, aquaculture markets have become a strategic food sector that contributes to nutrition security and sustains substantial employment opportunities for informal retailers, many of whom are women. However, the informal nature of fish retailing can result in different forms of insecurity relating to insufficient lending arrangements, risk of postharvest losses and poor returns, and threat of harassment or arrest. Research suggests restrictive gender norms and attitudes particularly impact women’s retailing businesses, resulting in smaller enterprises, more limited diversity of species and lower value products being sold compared to men retailers The Empowering Women Fish Retailers (EWFIRE) project will be implemented in Sharkia, Lower Egypt. Through its interventions, the project will test different value chain development strategies for improving women’s economic empowerment (defined as employment generation and improved profitability).

Intervention Strategy(ies)

1. Establish 5 women-led fish retailing centers across Sharkhia. 2. Improve the profitability of 100 existing women fish retailers and 3. Support the development of 50 new fish processing businesses, leading to 4. 300 full-time employment opportunities.

Impact Pathway

EWFIRE will deliver on its main targets of economic empowerment of women fish retailers through seven outcomes. These relate to the improved capacity of women beneficiaries regarding their social capital (group membership, legitimacy, bargaining power, market linkages); physical resources (processing centers, equipment); financial resources (village savings and loan associations, formal credit markets); human resources (technical training, business development skills, market information and online resources); and the establishment of new product lines and sustainable business models. The project will deliver on these targets through five activity work plans. These relate to supporting development of women-led retailer collectives; establishing/equipping five fish processing centers; delivering training on conflict resolution, entrepreneurship and marketing; developing sustainable business models; and strengthening market relations of women retailers.

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WHERE WE WORK

RESOURCES

Good practices for preprocessing and cooking farmed fish (arabic)

Author(s): Ahmed Zakkar | Ibrahim Salah EL-Sira | Menna Mosbah | Ahmed Mohamed Nasr-Allah

Date: 2023-01-31 | Type: Manual

Empowering Women Fish Retailers in Egypt (EWFIRE) Project

Author(s): Ahmed Mohamed Nasr-Allah

Date: 2021-11-19 | Type: Brief

Empowering Women Fish Retailers in Egypt (EWFIRE) Project (Arabic)

Author(s): Ahmed Mohamed Nasr-Allah

Date: 2021-11-19 | Type: Brief

EU-EC_Empowering Women Fish Retailers (EWFIRE) - 1st YEAR INTERIM NARRATIVE REPORT_April 2018 to March 2019

Author(s): Harrison Charo Karisa | Diaa Abdel Reheem Al-Kenawy

Date: 2019-10-03 | Type: Donor Report

NEWS & EVENTS