{"id":16115,"date":"2026-06-20T12:48:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iita.org\/news-item\/understanding-womens-financial-capabilities-in-south-kivu-drc\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T17:09:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T17:09:29","slug":"understanding-womens-financial-capabilities-in-south-kivu-drc","status":"publish","type":"news-item","link":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/news-item\/understanding-womens-financial-capabilities-in-south-kivu-drc\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding women\u2019s financial capabilities in South Kivu, DRC"},"content":{"rendered":"In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), women\u2019s opportunities to gain skills in enterprise development and participate in formal savings opportunities are severely limited and high rates of gender-based violence (GBV) further marginalize women from gaining access to microfinance.\n<div id=\"attachment_3927\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 661px\">\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Irongo-WomenE28099s-group-following-discussions-on-how-to-better-manage-household-budgets.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3927\" src=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Irongo-WomenE28099s-group-following-discussions-on-how-to-better-manage-household-budgets.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of Irongo Women\u2019s group following discussions on how to better manage household budgets and business activities.\" width=\"661\" height=\"441\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3927\" \/><\/a>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-3927\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Irongo Women\u2019s group following discussions on how to better manage household budgets and business activities.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\nThis was reported in a project\u00a0<em>\u201cImproving women\u2019s financial capabilities: A pilot project proposal to empower women in South Kivu,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0which addresses the issue. The project, started in 2017, aims to enhance women\u2019s empowerment by improving their financial capabilities, which refer to the \u201cattitude, knowledge, skills, and self-efficacy needed to make and exercise money management decisions that best fit the circumstances of one\u2019s life\u201d.\n\nTraining, group discussions, and personal counseling were employed to fulfill this objective and improve entrepreneurial knowledge, skills, and attitude. The project targeted both women and men because training women alone was shown to be inadequate to support women\u2019s empowerment as husbands control the income of their wives in many instances, clearly undermining efforts to improve gender equality and development outcomes overall.\n\nThe project was designed jointly with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mamasforafrica.be\/fr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mamas for Africa<\/a>, an NGO supporting women and girls in eastern DRC in their fight against violence, poverty, and inequality. Through this initiative, the NGO facilitates access to microfinance services for women who have experienced GBV as well as working to increase women\u2019s abilities to manage their finances.\n\nThe project currently runs in two rural locations in Walungu territory with beneficiaries engaging in diverse enterprises such as selling rice, beans, flour, and banana. They established a link to formal banking services and opened group accounts in the nearby banking cooperative. Twelve beneficiaries from Irongo as well as 14 from Mushinga meet once a week with their local facilitator to discuss their successes and challenges.\n\nSince their involvement in the project, beneficiaries have reported significant changes in their level of satisfaction in managing their expenses and acquired business management skills as they are better positioned to follow through on their investment and savings plans. Such changes are vital to achieving sustainable transformation in the lives of these women and their families.\n\nAccording to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IITA<\/a>\u00a0Postdoctoral Fellow on Gender Research Renee Bullock and collaborator Bonaventure Munzunghirwa, the project has provided key insights to guide future gender transformative research. The lessons include the need to use relational and intersectional approaches to understand the local social context. A key conclusion from the project is the need to engage men in the bid to address and improve women\u2019s financial capabilities as this will better support the potential to enhance women\u2019s entrepreneurship, savings, and gender equity in the agriculture sector.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), women\u2019s opportunities to gain skills in enterprise development and participate in formal savings opportunities are severely limited and high rates of gender-based violence (GBV) further marginalize women from gaining access to microfinance.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":16116,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"tags":[1656],"science-area":[],"program":[],"location":[34],"news-type":[],"hub":[63],"crop":[],"impact-areas":[],"item-year":[196],"class_list":["post-16115","news-item","type-news-item","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-congoiita-news-no-2450","location-democratic-republic-of-congo","hub-central-africa","item-year-196"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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