Results achieved at the end of the project (March 2023) include: (1) improved women entrepreneurs' access to financing and strengthened their technical and entrepreneurial skills. The interventions of the General Delegation for Rapid Entrepreneurship of Women and Youth enabled 178,555 women's entrepreneurial initiatives to access financing, for a total of $94.2 million. They also helped formalize 2,452 micro, small and medium-sized businesses and enabled 120,137 women to open 80,000 accounts to access nano-credit in the amount of $59.2 million, or 87% of the financing granted; (2) strengthened the skills of 111,493 workers in businesses and professional organizations and assisted 61,218 women with Vocational and technical training finance fund; (3) installed 4,729 pieces of equipment to lighten household chores, giving 786,000 women more time to engage in income-generating activities and increasing their financial autonomy; (4) implemented reforms and programs to eliminate gender-based violence and promote human rights. This included holding various legal consultation, legal assistance, advisory and mediation activities for 6,078 litigants (women and men). These reforms and programs also involved setting up a telephone platform ("Wallu Allo 116") to listen and provide referrals to women and children who are victims of violence, and creating 333 girls' clubs to prevent early pregnancy, gender-based violence and child marriage. Lastly, they focused on providing advice and services to 132,215 adolescents and women. (5) cereal crop yields and peanut production increased by 25% and 18%, respectively, compared with the most recent 5-year average. (6) a gender report on the distribution of agricultural inputs was produced by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Infrastructure and noted that, while women represented 21.6% of recipients of agricultural inputs, women only received 12.5% of the quantity and 17.5% of the value of the subsidized inputs; (7) a positive discrimination measure for women was adopted and applied, giving women farmers a 10% rebate on livestock mortality insurance premiums and a 5% rebate on crop loss insurance premiums; and (8) implemented measures to enhance the state's performance in responsible and transparent public financial management, notably by improving the administrative control and internal audit system.
