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To promote sustainable rural development, Solidar Suisse places great emphasis on building the capacities of vulnerable populations (young people and women) and improving their living conditions. To this end, various initiatives are being undertaken to improve the livelihoods of young people and women and promote decent work. These include

• their short-term vocational training in the agro-silvopastoral sector: market gardening, sheep fattening, breeder breeding, etc.
• developing their entrepreneurial skills: by improving the know-how of young people and women, and introducing them to the use of social networks to promote their products;
• easy access to financing by conducting studies on financing opportunities for young people and women, the results of which are brought to their attention at financing fairs attended by representatives of microfinance institutions (MFIs) and young people and women promoting promising trades;
• improving women’s access to arable land and their participation in the development of their localities: through their involvement in the creation of production-support infrastructures such as market gardening areas and lowland rice fields;

setting up day-care centers called MaBYZ “Ma Baas Yiire Zaka”, which in Mooré means “a place where mothers can free themselves from childcare to engage in productive activities”: to enable women to free themselves from childcare to actively participate in income-generating activities (IGA) in the community.