The Asia Foundation Mongolia: Technical Advisory Services for the Women’s Economic Empowerment Project
Capacity strengthening of Mongolia’s Feminist Network
The Asia Foundation in Mongolia, with support from GAC, is implementing a four year project to increase women’s economic empowerment in Mongolia through supporting women-led CSOs, and improving the environment for women’s entrepreneurship.
Kore Global has been working with TAF Mongolia since the inception of this project to help strengthen the GESI and MERL aspects of this project. Our technical assistance covers three areas: feminist mobilising, women’s entrepreneurship and project MERL for adaptive management.
Together with the Asia Foundation in Mongolia, we are providing support to Mongolia’s Feminist Network (MONFEMNET) to strengthen their ability to lead change in support of women’s economic empowerment and greater economic justice. Using feminist organising and advocacy theories, we worked in partnership with the TAF team and MONFEMNET’s leadership to design an approach to MONFEMNET’s capacity strengthening and mobilising work with their member organisations. We will continue this support through the development of MEL tools for assessing capacity and the results of increased mobilisation and advocacy.
We are also supporting TAF Mongolia’s work on women’s entrepreneurship, developing strategies and programme approaches that will enable TAF Mongolia to support current and future women entrepreneurs to increase skills, abilities and resources to start, run and grow their businesses. We worked together with the TAF Mongolia team (together with the Independent Research Institute of Mongolia) to conduct a COVID-19 impact assessment on Micro and Smallscale Women’s Business Enterprises in Mongolia.
As part of our ongoing technical assistance, we have also worked with the TAF Mongolia team to develop a theory of change and MEL strategy for the WEE Project that all partners can use to measure impact and learn “what works” in the Mongolia context. We will continue to support them to utilise this framework through facilitating bi-annual Pause, Reflect, Learn and Adapt workshops.
