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16. Low support to girls and women entrepreneurs
17. Insufficient women empowerment

Development Challenges
• Poor/ Dilapidated road network
• Unequipped health facilities/Limited drugs and qualified health personnel in health sector
• Lack of livelihood skills centers/Limited High learning institution (skills training centres needs to be multiply;
multipurpose youth centre)
• Children selling in streets and markets (child labour)
• Discrimination of women in public spaces
• Soil intrusion and acidity (challenge to farmers); processing, preservation and storage
• Unavailability of processing, storage facilities and agricultural implements/No agricultural interventions by FAO or
other partners in the region
• Children idleness and budget allocations are affected as a result of COVID19
• Significant reduction in Remittances from the diaspora as a result of lockdowns
• Limited classrooms in schools
• Less employment opportunities
• Increased child Labour
• Irregular migration
• Gender inequality in the job industry, politics etc
• Lack of early maturing seed varieties
• Environmental exploitation
• Lack of basic social amenities (Recreational facilities)
• Increased land dispute (between families, communities, neighbors)
• Inadequate clean and safe pipe borne water
• Increase in cases of gender based violence
Recent developments in education/women empowerment
• MRC Holland Foundation is building schools in number of communities in WCR

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