The number of recipients of economic empowerment pogramme hovered around 3,800 in the period between August 2022 and August 2023 and a further 2,500 accessed Raidet programme.
Thirty million dinars in financing were earmarked, the Ministry of Family, Women, Childen and the Seniors said Sunday.
According to a press release issued on the 67th anniversary of the Tunisian Women's Day, celebrated every year on 13 August, the Ministry recalled its contribution to the state's efforts to support women and girls in their transition from the informal to the formal sector by creating and supporting 32 new women's groupings as part of social and solidarity economy.
Under a framework agreement signed by the Ministry, the Confederation of Industry, Trade and Handicrafts (UTICA) and the National Chamber of Supermarkets, these groupings will help women market their products.
The Ministry stated that "economic empowerment is the solution", as it represents the national strategic choice for achieving social justice and ensuring equal opportunities between citizens and regions.
It pointed out that more than 870 families, the majority of them mothers, have benefited from sources of income during the current year, with funds totalling TND 13.5 million.
The Ministry of Women's Affairs also announced that 1,000 sources of income had been created for the mothers of pupils at risk of dropping out of school, with a budget of TND 4 million, in order to provide equal opportunities for access to and continuation of education.
Regarding the fight against the spread of violence to women in economically precarious situations, the Ministry of the Family recalled that the "Samida" programme for the economic empowerment of women victims of violence and women at risk of violence was launched in March 2002.
The Ministry said this programme provides women victims of violence with means of subsistence in order to empower them economically by providing them with vocational training and the equipment they need to launch their projects, with a funding value of between TND 5,000 and TND 20,000, depending on the value of the project, with an annual budget estimated at one million dinars.
Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse